Thankful for yarn, and for Matthew, and for knitting, and for turkey, and for yarn...
I hope all you 'Mericans out there celebrating Thanksgiving got stuffed to your gills with delicious food and your souls topped off with family and friends. We didn't have many people over (my sister and a friend of ours) but we had fun and fullness. I cooked an enormous feast.
The spread.
But you're here to hear about knitting, aren't you?
You can see my progress on Fair Isle Jazz in that there picture. I love the saturated colors of the Peruvian Highland Wool, and it's surprisingly soft. I messed up the cable a little, somewhere, so I'm fudging it and it'll work out just fine.
I whipped up this Love Bite last weekend, using some handspun and adding vintage buttons from my button box. I wish there was one extra wedge of lace in the bottom, since it doesn't quite flare enough and ends up curling up at the bottom, but that's hardly something that will be noticed when it's wedged under a coat.
Speaking of coats, my new one should arrive today or tomorrow. I bought a new coat really cheaply (80% off) last year, at the beginning of spring, but despite it being a $350 coat, it is not very warm at all. The weave of the wool makes it entirely non-windproof, and quite unsuitable for a Minnesota winter. Maybe even worse was the difficulty in knitting things to match it. My hat goes with it, but that's about it. However, most of the winter accessories I have now, or am knitting, have orange in them. Heck, the Fair Isle Jazz scarf has orange and the weird green that matches my boots. It's like fate.
It's snowing outside, and I'm so thankful that I get to spend the day in a warm house, gazing out the window, knitting in hand, kittens by my side, and Law & Order on all darn day!
Holiday yarn sale alert!
I'm not sure how long it lasts, but if you enter "November" as a coupon code at Carodan Farm, you'll get 25% off your order. I believe there's a minimum purchase required, but I'm not exactly sure of the amount (over $20 and under $40, I know that much!). Right now I am hemming and hawing about some Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock.
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