Successfully navigated Sheep and Wool again this year. Saturday I spent three hours volunteering in the T shirt sale booth, which was fun and netted me a T shirt of my own with the word "volunteer" printed jauntily across the back. Bragging rights! Then looked around a bit, but when even Tess's rummage sale (a rare event) could not tempt me, I knew it was time to go home and come again another day. Sunday was much better for shopping, netting me the spoils shown here:
Three skeins of sock yarn. The two on the bottom are from Cherry Tree Hill, always a nice place to shop. It's hard to see the colors in the one on the left, but it's called Birches, and it has a warm white variegated with greys, greens, and golden browns that do remind me of birch trees. It's subtle and quite lovely.
And the big purchase, from Tess's rummage sale (yes, I went back, how could I not?):
Hand-dyed (as all of Tess's yarns are) angora and merino blend, sort of a light worsted, about 1300 yards, which should be enough to make myself a sweater. The colors are so me, and the yarn is so soft. I love it. Now to find a pattern.
Peter made sure I ate my full quota of lamb sausages, and mom purchased this gem:
So fun was had by all.
The project now on the needles is a pair of socks, grey self-striping cotton/elastic blend with some decorative stitching I'm copying out of Ethnic Socks and Stockings by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts. Still trying to knit socks that I can wear in the summer. Sigh. Here they are:
Only one active project right now, my garden has been taking up the rest of my time. Pix of that next time!
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