Knitting tidbits


A two post day!  Wow!  Anyways these are pictures of new yarn that I received (finally!) on Saturday.  They are Shaefer Yarn Andrea in two different colorways, Althea Gibson and Indira Ghandi.  I'm going to make shawls out of both.  The are 100% cultivated silk and are quite amazing!  Some of my most prized yarn.  A big thanks to my mom who bought them for me.  I have this compulsion to keep touching them, so I've been carrying them around with me :).

Also on Saturday, I took a fair isle class and made my first "real" fair isle project.  (I say real because I attempted fair isle for my christmas stocking.)  It went really well.  I basically had to learn how to knit continental to use both hands holding the yarn and learning that was a little bumpy but it came out great.  I plan on giving the hat to my mom but I'm worried it will be too big.  The yarn I used was Malabrigo in mint and pigeon colorways.

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