Wool, Wool, Everywhere

Handspun and off the long sitting bobbins,

Spun from a fleece brought back from the Winter Wool Workshop last year.

plied and on the homemade cheapo niddy noddy,

It is my best effort yet, but I will keep working to get a little more consistency in my yarn.

just completed and hanging out on the fence,

 

drying after a nice soak and ready for knitting,

 

and my first homegrown fleeces on the skirting table.

Hassie

More on that undertaking later.

Somewhere in all that I darned a few socks and swatched for a secret project.

I have just been in fiber heaven all day!

 

A Work-In-Progress Retreat

Wine tasting and Wool.

My kind of retreat.
 

 

The afternoon event was sponsored by Fibre Space one of my local city side go-to yarn shops, and held at the lovely Zephaniah winery in Lounoun Co, Virginia.

Bill and Bonnie welcomed us to their historic home and into their parlor tuned tasting room.
We enjoyed tasty treats and cheeses, a sampling of seven wines, some of the best sangria these lips have ever met and a chance to get out the WIPs and work a few rows.

Chatting, wine and knitting...how many mistakes do you were discovered the next day?

I am still oogling over that mantle.

 

I must admit that I did not accomplish much on my current WIPs.

Vests for the little boys. There is one in red and one in blue coming up next.

 

Mystery yarn. Label lost long ago. I love the copper and nickel colorway.

 

There was just too much exploring to do outside.

And purchases to be made back inside.
 

 

 

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Bird Knitting

My favorite place (among all my other favorite places) to knit is on the front porch sitting in a comfy red Adirondack chair glancing up at the mountains ever so often, just stitching away. 

Such was the case when I made this tunic for my daughter several months back. 

The yarn is  Rowan Cocoon and was a dream to work with (although I hear it sheds quite a lot...part mohair). I finished it up on that front porch, weaving in the ends and clipping off the remnants, flicking them off the garment with a quick motion into the wind. 

Seems another thought the yarn was a dream to work with as well.

I found this abandoned bird's nest in a dead bush a good distance away. 

Can you see the pieces of green yarn woven through the twigs? 

I wonder if I will find more next spring from the just completed baby blanket made for a family friend? 

Bad coloring...it's really a beautiful shade of aqua!

{No particular pattern on this one. The yarn is Miss Babs Yowza in the Coventry colorway}

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