The Amoretti Oxford Purse

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Here There Be Fibers

I do not crochet.  But the girl does, and recent guests did.  Quite a lot and quite imaginatively.  A sampling:

Mittens, hat, scarf and purse.  The purse was started at

your house, Uberimma!

I, meanwhile, finished two scarves.

Then, thanks to a heads up by the same Uberimma, I bought two bags of Noro Kureyon. On sale.  If you do not know of it, then spare yourself and do not look at it.  I am both a spinner and dyer and still could not resist the single strand multicolor change yarn.

And then there is Ravelry.  Stop now if you have no moments to spare.  It is a great way to find lots of ideas and patterns and lose time that could be spent elsewhere.  Since I had ordered the Kureyon, I spent time looking ate lovely objects knitted with it and found a Finnish doubleknit scarf I really liked.  Kaisa, a friend from Finland, came over and interpreted it for us one day.

So I started right away on yarns I had, then dyed some more with the two youngest boys who were very interested in all things fiber related.  Including silk from milkweed pods.

Angela took the photo last night.

There is more, but must run books to the library.

Yarn again

Found the note I made about this wonderful yarn Uberimma had.  It is Kauni Effektgarn, out of Estonia.  Have been looking at things on Ravelry people have made with it.  The word is it is not soft and has long stretches of one color before changing.  I like the rainbow and blue-greens best.

Dyeing

Since ogling what the vendors had for sale at the Troy Fair, I decided to come home and start dyeing some of the lovely fibers that have been waiting for action here. I did several dye pots with Mary Stepney wool fleece, kid mohair, tussah silk roving and some mohair roving. And one Lamb O’Lakes skein. All the pots had my favorite color mix: turquoise and magenta. As usual, they all came out differently.

Ellie has loaned me her carder.