I finished Deciduous this morning.
I am writing up the pattern today and I hope to have it posted, on Ravelry and here, by Monday. My mother saw Deciduous while it was still a W.I.P. and now wants her own pair in “tropical” colors.
On the fourteenth I ordered three skeins of yarn from a yarn shop in Portland of all places. Thursday they arrived.
They’re individually wrapped in tissue paper. I enjoyed unwrapping them. It was rather like Christmas.
It’s Ambiente by Schoppel-Wolle, 100% virgin wool, sport weight, 50g per skein, 169 yards per skein. The colorway is 1863magic. I’m thinking a pair of socks. I would like to design them myself, the only problem is that I wouldn’t be able to come up with the heel on my own.
I was on the knitty blog the other day and I found a very cool commercial for natural gas.
The company covered-then unravled- a house with knitting.
[...] Page 91. They’re called Bunny Hoppers. They’re perfectly adorible. I’m thinking they’ll be the perfect Easter gift for Rosie. I’ll hop right to it if the yarn I ordered would come. No pun intended. I am also starting my March entry for design it. Socks. I cannot say more, except… Do you remember Ambiente? [...]