On Friday I played hooky from work in the morning and went to Stitches with a coworker (i love that I have a knitter coworker). The drive down to Santa Clara was super fast (like 40 min which is amazing for a weekday morning) and we got there in time to stand in line to get into the market. I had only been to Stitches once before – 3 years ago when I had first learned to spin and I had definitely gorged on wool then and I think that I have actually spun all that wool up by now. This time I had a plan which I did mostly manage to stick to – get wool that I can’t get locally and try new stuff. I wanted to get some Blue Moon fiber arts top and I did get sucked into some yarn as well.
The roving is 50/50 superfine merino and silk in Valkyrie
I had bought some top from Judy’s Novelty wool 3 years ago and I loved the yarn that it made (she’s from Utah so not local) so I nabbed 2 lots of top from her.
4oz of Merino
4oz of Corriedale
I visited sweet grass wool of Montana for some tahrgee top in very saturated colors (so soft mmmm…)
I got buttons for my recently completed Sunrise Circle Jacket
that’s the haul
oh and that finished sweater (except for the buttons)?
Here she is
All right big sis, I hope this roundup made you smile!
