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for blocking.

My giant scarf is complete.

It needed blocking, and the steam iron wasn’t quite working out.  Which lead me to give it a full immersion bath.  140″+ of alpaca soaking wet takes up quite a lot of room in the tubby.  And in the bedroom.  I think the scarf is longer than my bedroom is, wall to wall.

And (note to self) 90 degree weather in amazing humidity makes wet fiber not so delicious smelling.  We don’t have central air, and now my house smells like wet alpaca.  yum.

The scarf, tho, is lovely, and I’ll post excellent photos when it’s dry (if it ever does).

To be filed in the “new in the shop” category:

Bonnie’s Bamboo from Farmhouse Yarns.  200 yards of wonderful bamboo-y fiber!  So pretty!

cool.

the melting can now cease!

My #01 Lace Scarf from last year’s vogue knitting is growing.  It’s hard not to, when you’re knitting Blue Sky Alpaca bulky, doubled, on size 19 needles.  Notice the weight.  Thing 3 is having a hard time holding. it. up.

This project has taught me that sometimes you just have to follow a pattern and trust in it.  When the pattern called for the Blue Sky bulky held double, I thought, “that’s wicked too much money for just a scarf,” and promptly adjusted the pattern to knit the project with a single strand of the yarn.

Well, it just didn’t look the same.  Yeah, it was big and bulky, but not nearly as structural.  So, I resigned myself to making a million dollar scarf, ripped out and started again.  Boy am I glad I did.  I heart this.

I think the scarf would work equally well knit up in the Rown Big Wool, held double of course.  Big Wool, being wool as opposed to alpaca, doesn’t weigh nearly as much, though, which is probably a plus.  The structure of this scarf is great.  Not so sure my neck will appreciate it though, come winter.

whirling dervish (?), cuz that’s how it feels.

The first week at the new Modern Yarn has been exciting!  We welcomed back tons of old (and young) friends!  We’ve met plenty of new folk!  We’ve learned there’s a lot more square footage to cover in the new space and the excellent looking stool in the back of the counter is really only excellent to look at (not sit on, as my aching back will attest).  We signed up on twitter (modernyarn is our name–look for us), which helped immensely when we had to send out a traffic/closed street alert.  It also let everyone know that we’ll soon be carrying Dream in Color!

In between all that, Things 2 and 3 help skein the kajillion kilos of Manos that arrived today.

And I have been knitting.  Even though it couldn’t be any hotter, I’m working on this (rav link).  I don’t have photos yet of my version, but I’ll tell you this, it’s green.  And it’s blue sky alpacas bulky held double.  Which means that I’m 20″ into this thing and it already weighs about 4 lbs.  Photos will come after tonight’s knitting, when I’ve got at least another repeat done.

Yup, whirling dervish, but boy it’s good to be back!

Paige