To All The Lovely Ladies....

   The Ladies of my knitting group are outstanding. They are phenomenal! And I think they really like me. First the lovely Trish brought me her unwanted sock yarn which found a very good home on my dpns, one shining example is the pair of Firestarters. Such beautiful things those skeins of sock yarn. Then the lovely Mary Ann and Susan donated a very large amount of yarn (from which I am still reeling). Lots of sock yarn and lace-weight and purple!!! So very happy am I! These wonderful works of fiber arts were given to me on Wednesday the 2nd of June and when I got home that night I took out a skein of autumn colored alpaca and cast on another set of the Nicholas Fingerless Gloves...

 
The colorway reminds me of autumn leaves and I love this pattern. Course so do many of the female members of my family.... I finished the second glove the night of June 4th. So very happy with the way they turned out. I am trying to take the left over yarn and duplicate the 5 stitch pattern and make a matching hat. They fit so very well, the first thing that I have made that fits me like a...well...a glove. I will indeed be hard pressed to part with this pair.
   I have been spending a lot of time (when not at work) digging through the newest and most welcome additions to my meager stash, winding and planning. I can't decide what to do next....


   I ordered and received 1200 yards of Catherine Lowe #1 merino in Chianti and despite the misleading line "Total purchase will be wound into large balls, not into individual balls of 100 yds/91 m." leading me to belive that I would get one ball totaling 1200 yards not 2 balls 'slightly over' 600 yards and despite the rather snippy email 'explaining' this to me, I do like the yarn. It is soft and yummy and I can't wait to really get to work with hit. I waited so long to get this yarn, I am planning on making the Icarus Shawl for my cousin's bride to be, who's wedding is Labor Day weekend. I feel I may have bitten off more then I can chew however as I have never worked with this fine of lace-weight nor made a shawl of this caliber before. I am hoping I can get it figured out soon since I have only 3 months to work with it. I do get to take the unused sample purchase of a 400 yard ball back to Knit Purl and exchange it for something else..... maybe something purple....

TTFN