Well, not me, but some of my knits are going to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival, aka Rhinebeck, October 17-18. They’ll be displayed as samples in the booth with A Chick that Knitz. Tammy dyes lovely assigned pooling yarns.
(Clockwise from top left) Trillium Path, Simply Stellar, Floral Rhapsody, Effervescent, and Fantasia are all designed with A Chick that Knitz yarn, so I’ve sent them off to see the world. It’s kind of like sending your kid to summer camp. But yarn.
(I know I keep saying this: Floral Rhapsody is coming soon! Tomorrow.)
I’ve never been to Rhinebeck, but I hope to go someday. How about you?
In other news, I cut my finger the other night, badly enough that I went to urgent care where they glued it back together. I usually knit with the yarn in my right hand, but I had to change it up! So I’m knitting brioche continental style, using the Norwegian purl for the brioche purls. It’s good to know more than one way to knit! And this forces me to practice.
I have videos linked on my tutorials page, in case you want to see brioche either way, including the Norwegian brioche purl. You never know when you might need it.
One last bit of news: the Hōlei Sea Arch at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has collapsed into the sea. It stood for over 500 years, and now it’s gone. Nature is awe-inspiring.
Okay, onward!
Norwegian purl is the only way I could do Continental purling. Hope your finger heals ok. Hopefully there will be pattern tags hanging on your knits. That was frequently a bummer with our wool festival. Saw lots of beautiful shawls but no tag to identify the pattern. Where is Fired Up? I love that stitch. Hmm – could Tammy display swatches of some of your stitches with the pattern it’s used in??
Finger is doing great; I’m down to just a bandaid. Still trying to keep it dry.
I put tags on all the knits i sent, and they may add more tags with color info. I only sent samples that used the dyer’s yarn; they don’t want to hang someone else’s yarn sample! So Fired Up is not there. (I don’t think they do worsted weight right now.)