Category: yarn

  • Frolic ’10

    It was a dreary, blustery, rainy day – so what better than surrounding oneself with wool?

    I love the Knitter’s Frolic. It’s gotten bigger and bigger every year, and even aside from the awesome yarn and yarny stuff I love the opportunity to see the people! I know lots of knitters (as you might expect) and I just love that at the Frolic I tend to see people I know where ever I turn. I headed up with Jane and Cheryl for a few hours (thanks for the ride Cheryl!) and had lots of fun.

    And! There were Milkweed Shawls a-plenty! I saw a few in booths, and some being worn, like these beautiful ones:

    milkweed #1

    another Milkweed

    (Neither are sneaky photos, just so y’know!)

    And of course, the yaaaarn.

    Zen Yarn Garden:
    zen yarn garden

    Dyed in the Wool Handmade:
    dyed in the wool

    Tanis’ beautiful Mulberry Silk:
    tanis mulberry silk

    I bought a bunch of books – although I’m regretting not buying more Japanese books! – and one sweater’s worth of yarn, a semi-solid Koigu in a shade of deep red that seems to be impossible to photograph.

    I love yarn events! I already can’t wait till next year.

  • purple and more purple

    In addition to the basket backpack, which was the first thing I picked up at Rhinebeck, here’s the bit of yarn I got!

    silk/merino

    Some silk/merino from Skaska. None of the cashmere there really struck me this year (and I went early) but I love this colour. I’m already knitting some of it up!

    caaaaashmere

    Cashmere from Still River Mill – love it! So soft. Not sure what I’ll make since it’s quite thin laceweight. Maybe a shawl.

    sliver moon

    Sock yarn from Sliver Moon Farm. I bought three skeins of this exact colour last year, so when I saw more I bought it up. Now I should have enough for…well, something more than socks anyway.

    cormo from Foxfire

    A few skeins of natural cormo/alpaca/silk from Foxfire Fiber. So squishy. I feel that perhaps I should’ve bought more, but none of the colours really did it for me.

    araucania

    This didn’t come from Rhinebeck – on the way back to Boston we made a long pit stop at Webs. I had a great time looking around there and bought a sweater’s worth of this red Araucania merino as well as a bag of Misti Alpaca Royal Worsted. Yum.

    Now I just need to get on this swatching thing!

  • we interrupt…

    …your regularly scheduled Rhinebeck yarn post for an important announcement.

    NOMNOMNOM

    Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies.

    Make them NOW. Go to the store for ingredients if you must – they are orange and black after all, perfect for that Hallowe’en party later this week (if they make it to then).

    best. cookies. ever.

    My very slight mods to the recipe: I used 1/2 brown, 1/2 white sugar, upped the chocolate chips a touch (to use up the rest of the bag), mixed by hand, and used heaping tablespoons rather than 1/4 cup portions for each cookie. I got 30 cookies…but there aren’t that many now!

    A sneak peek at the yarn? Sure.

    my purple period

    Clearly I’m in a purple period!