Knitter's Business

OK, so if you're not a knitter, you may want to skip this post. Move along to Salon.com, or the Food Network blog, or whatever you normally pass the time with. For you fiber folks, I want to let you know what I've chosen to knit on this cruise, and show you yarn. (We likes yarn.)

I'm taking 3 workshops during the cruise and here's the yarn:


The stack of black, white and red is for an Estonian Mittens class with Nancy Bush. It's a Finnish yarn called Satakieli, purchased from Nancy's business, Wooly West. The red and black are half skeins of Louet Riverstone, for a class with Beth Brown-Riensel called the Halland Pullover. And the green is some unlabeled laceweight, I think with alpaca in it, I found in my stash, for Nancy's Estonian Lace class.

For my non-class knitting I've chosen to knit a simple lace sock and a complicated lace shawl. The yarns are:


The purple/orange is Lorna's Laces which has been aging in the stash about 5 yrs, since before that business changed hands. The color is called "mother lode". It is destined to become a pair of Monkey socks, from the Knitty.com pattern by Cookie A.



The brown yarn is a purchase from the Sock Summit last weekend, here in Portland. The vendor is an indie dyer called Frog Creek Fibers. The yarn base is Ebbulient, superwash merino and nylon, and the color way is Root Beer. It is destined to be knit into a Lucy Neatby pattern, the Faroese Flower shawl.
I know I won't get all of either of these finished on the trip, but I wanted options. Always with the options....

I plan to swatch tonight, and then I'll know which needles to pack.

And then I can start on the clothes.


Oh: my sister Beth told me I should mention I do have another dog, an old, blind, toothless chihuahua named Sadie, who has been my dog for 14 years. I'm not taking new photos of her anymore, but I do have old ones I will bring with me. I think my sister felt bad for the poor geriatric dog who got no blog post. So here I am, making up for it. She (Sadie) is beloved, just much less interactive than the little Ginger dog.