What Dreams are Made Of

We have two brand new colours from Emma’s.

What Dreams are Made Of. You know I want to knit with this colour 😍

Sea Glass

We have these in Practically Perfect Sock and Suri Silk. They are so pretty in person.

I put together two new combinations for the Ooey Gooey Cowl. You need two skeins of Suri Silk and 2 skeins of Dyed in the Wool. Above is Sea Glass and Waterwitch. Below is What Dreams are Made of and Purse First.

This is my Ooey Gooey Cowl (pattern purchased on Ravelry) knit with Mom Jeans and Bitter Pill.

This is Linda’s first cowl - Beach Please and Ghost Ranch.

Here is Linda’s second - Jackie O and Eleventh Hour.

Dad, Beth and the dogs had a great weekend at the cottage. The weather was beautiful but the fish weren’t biting. 

Don’t forget that the store will be closed on Wednesday October 7th. Lynn and I have appointments that day and neither of us can work. We’ll be back on Thursday October 8th at noon.

Ooey Gooey Cowl

Here are better pictures of my Ooey Gooey Cowl. I kept rotating the cowl so you can see the different colours. It was one of those projects that you have to keep knitting because you want/need to know what’s coming next.

I made kits with the new colours of Dyed in the Wool. These are available online and in the store.

Yesterday was all about kits. There will be many different colour combinations for Casapinka’s LYS Day shawl pattern. I’m not ready to share the colours yet because I’m still playing with them but here is a sneak peek.

Sorry - not much of a sneak peek. 🤣 The shawl is knit with two skeins of fingering weight yarn. 

Now back to my Inclinations Shawl. A few more days and the first colours will be finished. 

Finished Jaunty

Alex dropped by on Saturday with my blocked Jaunty.

Pattern: Jaunty (pattern purchased on Ravelry)

Yarn: 5 skeins Spincycle Dyed in the Wool

Colour: Poppy

Needles: 3.75mm

I love this pattern. It is mindless but not boring. I will be making it again.

This could be my next Jaunty. It’s a brand new colour coming from Spincycle within the next two weeks.

Yesterday afternoon I finished my Ooey Gooey Cowl. It needs to be blocked and then the ends grafted together.

Then I picked up my Nightshift. I wanted to blog last night but I was trying to get the stitches cast off first. I had about 20 stitches left when it was bed time. I’ll get it finished later today.

This was about 6:30 last night. It didn’t look too bad outside.

This morning I went out to get dad’s newspaper. I had to dig a path to get it.

Mike came from the workshop this morning to get the driveway clean. Sending thoughts to those who got slammed.

A decade ago

I’m seeing a lot on Instagram about looking back to 2016. Andrea Mowry showed some of her patterns from 2016 in her latest newsletter. 

One pattern that came out was Find Your Fade. 

This is the start of my first Find Your Fade from December 2016.

Here is Andrea’s version. Unfortunately Hedgehog has discontinued one of the colours so we can’t match the colours exactly but I can put together something equally as beautiful.

You can purchase the pattern for Find Your Fade on Ravelry.

Starting at a single point and growing, shifting and fading into a piece that begs to be wrapped up in. This asymmetrical triangle shawl uses some clever increasing and decreasing, combined with relaxing garter stitch and simple lace so that you have a fun-to-knit canvas to play with mixing colors on! This shawl is all about making it your own. Let your creativity shine!!  

Get creative - this is YOUR shawl! Use only 1 color, or 3, or 10. Need help with color selections? I highly recommend diving into your stash (or the shelves of your LYS) and untwisting the skeins and then laying them next to each other. Look for nuances that can be seen from one color to the next - if your first color has some gold (like mine), why not snag an awesome speckled skein that also has some gold and another color you love (ahem - pink), so that after the speckled skein you can start stitching up that favorite pink skein you have been hoarding! And so on and so forth! Still feeling nervous? Head on over to my Ravelry group and show some pictures of the yarn you are trying to decide between! Everyone there loves to help!!

I finished the shawl by the middle of January 2017. I couldn’t put the shawl down because it was such a fun knit. So fun that I knit it twice more.

The furnace in the store started acting up on Saturday. I spent the day in the store yesterday waiting for the repairman to come fix it. After a few hours he said it was good. I accomplished a lot of paperwork but got home after dark by the time he was done. I was cold and tired and after dinner went for a nap. When I woke up Beth had picked a movie. It didn’t win any Academy Awards but it kept us laughing. I couldn’t stop watching to post. 

This morning I went to the store and it is nice and warm again. After errands I sat and knit for a bit.

I’m two rows short of the halfway point. I am obsessed. I think there will be another one in my future. Th only problem is that Boscoe can’t keep picking up my ball of Dyed in the Wool. Dad thinks it’s so funny and keeps telling Boscoe to bring it to him.

I’m early today because this afternoon I’m having my hair cut. Then it’s my job to make dinner since it was my day off. There will be some more knitting tonight. 

My Ooey Gooey Cowl

Watching SWAT on my iPad and knitting. Yes I started an Ooey Gooey Cowl (pattern purchased on Ravelry).

Two more rows and I will be 1/3 of the way through the cowl. It’s a fun easy knit.

No ball of Spincycle is safe when Boscoe is around. I’d be knitting away and all of a sudden my ball was across the room. He’d look at me like ‘what are you going to do about it?’. Dad and Beth would laugh.

Here is another combination I put together for the Cowl. Cold Comfort Dyed in the Wool with Dusk til Dawn Suri Silk.

Now back to my knitting and the football game.