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Knitting tragedy

By on July 3, 2013 in Friends, Knits and Crochet

Saturday was a most wonderful day with farming friends.  The kind of day that stays with me for a while.  Whenever Nate and Charlei come over to spend a day there is lots to eat, share and knit.  The men folk and boys spent time drinking some homemade brew while hours of card playing occurred.  At some point even the little ones learned how to play some card games.

We women baked challah, made some farmers cheese, cooked an abundance of great food and spent lots of time out in the garden.  As the day stretched into the evening we sat down to do some knitting.  Chatting by the piano, I remembered Matthew’s Peurperium sweater which was still sitting in the basket under the coffee table (since May), waiting for me to attach buttons to.

here is a picture of the almost finished sweater taken in May (just needing buttons to be done)
I pulled it out of the basket to show my friend when I felt my finger go right through the sleeve.  Not only that but the more I pulled out of the sweater the more apparent it became that all was not right here. That was when I remembered that our bunny Lola had been hanging out under the coffee table that morning.  My heart sank!

Because I was not alone and could not give into the luxury of screaming and crying over what I was holding in my hands, I just sat there quietly, with my head hanging low.  I would have eventually cried if Charlei had not said “I would say sorry but I didn’t eat the sweater”.  I looked at her and could not hold in the laugh which came out in such a way that I could not continue my sorrow over the nibbled sweater.

She also reminded me that Matthew would not need the sweater for about another 5 months and she was of course right though I was bummed because for once I was way ahead of the game with Matthews sweater completely way before I needed it done.  I studied it and there was so much damage to so many parts that repairing the sweater was not a possibility.  After frogging it, there is just not enough usable yarn to remake the sweater so I will have to make him another from a different yarn.  This yarn is my absolute favorite yarn but I will need a smaller project to reuse it.

I will leave you now with  picture of my little sweetie (enjoying his first foods) as he is in summer, nothin but a diaper necessary.  There is time to make another sweater and I will remember to put Lola away in her hutch when she is not being supervised. (Note to self:  If I had put the buttons on and hung the sweater up, none of this would have happened).

Knitting along with Ginny today.  See you tomorrow!

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off the wagon

By on June 25, 2013 in Farm and Garden, Knits and Crochet

Like many of my friends I have a thing for fiber.  I love the feel of good yarn, hand dyed, made from someone’s beloved animal, the more handmade the better.  For the past year and a half I hae stuck to my goal of not acquiring new yarn until I used up my stash of already purchased yarn.  Well, it’s safe to say I have fallen off the wagon with no plans of getting back on any time soon!

It happened two weeks ago when my favorite economical wool yarn went on sale.  Cascade yarns are soft, wonderful and cheap enough to let the girls use it.  We ordered about 12 hanks and a few days later Brambleberry had another sale.  Keeping in mind what my kids might need me to make them, the birth of our first grandbaby and holidays, I carefully picked some more yarn and when they all arrived, I felt like a rich woman to be surrounded by so much loveliness.

I am using the brown Cascade for the sweater I am designing as well as a new pair of loafers to go with it.  I think I am at the final pattern for the cardigan though everytime I work it up I make a change somewhere.  It will be fun to be done with it and make the final cardigan for Matthew.

Lots of seed saving and harvesting to be done today in the herb bed which has become quite junglish. I also have quite a surplus of milk from Tilly to deal with so I’m off to make butter and cheese.

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