March 16, 2003
Dreamweaver
Today Brad and I are taking a nice little day-trip to Bainbridge Island. We will board the ferry at Seattle, and after arrival on the island will spend the day meandering around, looking into shops. Antiques, arts and crafts, all sorts of intriguing items are there. We shall lunch at the BlackBird Bakery (what Raven can resist that?!) and of course pay a visit to Churchmouse Yarns, where I must find something that does not yet exist in my formidable arsenal of knitting needles: size 10 dpns.
I was motivated to start my felted bag project yesterday, but then realized that, as it starts out in the round on 8 stitches, my 32" circulars would not be the ideal tool. I tried to be cunning and clever and use two long circulars, but I couldn't figure that out without bursting too many blood vessels in my brain. Then I attempted using 4 circulars, but again, success was elusive, whether due to lack of coordination or just incompetence I really don't know. I ended up working on a Koigu sock that is the mate to one I finished (all except the toe grafting) on that long-ago cruise.
For my birthday my in-laws sent me money, with which I bid on and won an ebay auction of two matching rovings. One of them is mohair, the other is Wensleydale, and they are hand-painted in a beautiful colorway called "Dreamweaver", purply pinks, lilac, golds and blues. It wasn't long before I discovered that the name was indicative of its powers:
Little Jojo cuddled up with the mohair and happily dreamt the day away.
If your weather was like ours on the right coast, you had the perfect cruising day. If you want to chase down a replacement for that rascally LL yarn (what IS it with that stuff??) my favorite source is www.eweknitkits.com - she's got the best prices I've found and ships right away.
Posted by: CarolineF on March 16, 2003 06:58 PM