Girasole blanket started

Friends of ours have an alpaca farm and offer 5 ply and 8 ply yarn professionally spun in 2 natural colors, fawn and cream which is 80% alpaca and 20% super fine Merino wool. Fred discovered this at a recent visit to this farm where the alpacas graze next to Noel's private air strip and brought back some "samples" (~300 gm skeins) of each weight and color for me to explore. I became enchanted with all of it and have since fallen in love with this yarn. I started Jared Flood's Girasole blanket in the 8 ply fawn yarn. Fred built me a skein holder so that I don't have to cut any of the yarn or wind into a ball. The yarn was up to the top of the dowels when I started. I just got some more of the yarn since I don't know how much this will take. Pattern calls for 1800 yds of aran wt yarn on 6mm needles. What a joy to knit this pattern which is beautifully written with large charts that are easy to follow. It is logical, interesting and my hands don't hurt even when making 5 sts out of 1 since this follows a previous yarnover and there is room for the new sts without a struggle. While missing out on having a LYS here, knowing these friends and getting the yarn directly from them in an unlimited supply which always matches is magic. I will dye the cream for future blankets or vests planned soon when I have a better idea of how much to dye.

52 Week Challange - Debbie (Grandma 07)

Here are my finished socks for May. The pattern is Glynis by Cookie A. and the yarn is Panda Silk in color 3010. This was a fun pattern to knit...detailed enough that I had to keep an eye on the pattern, but overall not really difficult once I got the hang of SSSK and K3tog.

socks in progress

It is starting to look nice, this sock... and I have decided to knit them up for Jouke. We discussed the foot size yesterday... his foot is 1 inch shorter than mine. But he was clear about his preference: rather a tiny bit bigger as he can grow into it... than perfect size and outgrown within a year or so. LOL!

The yarn, by the way is one I recently bought in Zoetermeer: Gründl Wolle Yale. It is a bit rough, compared to other sock yarns (less flexible), but for socks without patterns it works perfect. He will have warm feet when they are ready for sure.

Round 5

Round 5 of Sock Madness came out. The pattern is Dimpled Diamonds. I knitted these in fibranatura's Yummy yarn.


I was happy to finish these while my DH was still up. So he had the pleasure of snapping the finished picture.

52-week for May

Hi, I am doing a Palindrome scarf that I got on Ravelry. I will definately make it longer though. I like the cables because it is reversable and looks great on both sides. I am using some leftover yarn that I got at the Portland Knit and Crochet show last year. Will write later on other projects I have started and the never ending traveling scarves. It has been a busy last three weeks and I am almost recovered and ready to go again.

Jody

52 weeks KAL May update - progress and finished

First part for May is this little hat, that I did yesterday when I had to wait for a very long time.

It is made from a pattern by Ruth Sorensen, who does cool things I love and I had some Estonian wool laying around, very much like Kauni or Evilla, same producer. Estonians seem to prefer woolen to worsted.

There will be a picture again, when the hat is blocked and looks far better than now. I think now it resembles my legs. If I could block them too?

42g = 336m, for a start.

One day later:

O my, correction on this: .42 x NM8/2 =168 m .

The yarn yields 400m/100g, not 800. I couldn´t imagine to have knit so many meters in that time and had a more closely look at my figures. So sorry,but there will be enough meters to show for this month :-)