Yarn-in-waiting

 In the spirit of keeping a better record of the yarn I purchased (and have not yet used)....

This pink and black yarn is from Fibre Space, a lovely yarn store in Alexandria, Virginia.  The yarn is from Neighborhood Fiber Company - it is Studio Worsted in the colorway Dupont Circle.  Charmingly, their yarn colors are named after area neighborhoods.  This scarf from 2012, was knit with colorway Georgetown.

While I was at Fibre Space, I also purchased these scissors.  After my purchase, the store clerks helpfully wound my yarn while Steve and I sat outside in their lovely green space.  The packaged everything in the canvas bag under the scissors.  Visit this store if you get a chance.  Love it.

I purchased this yarn at Sin City Yarn Shop in Henderson (or Las Vegas), Nevada in 2022.  No, I haven't made anything with it yet.  The company is Sin City Yarn and Roll the Dice is the name of the yarn.  As far as I can see, there isn't a colorway on the tag.  Pretty, isn't it?

So, that was my 2022 yarn purchase from our visit with Josh.  We also went to Henderson (which is right next to Las Vegas) in 2023, and I purchased this:

This is Socker Mom Fibers Ornament Set (I also bought a pattern).  It contains four 5 gram skeins of yarn in red, green, blue, and cream.  In my next post, I'll show you what I've made with it. It's lovely, soft yarn - superwash merino with 25% nylon.

One last yarn purchase.  This is black wool and a rainbow roving that I purchased (online - this is not souvenir yarn) to make thrummed mittens.  Notice I wrote "to make."  This is how the wool looked yesterday, and continues to look. It's lovely, but I haven't knit with it yet.  I follow the Yarn Harlot on Patreon - which I very much enjoy.  She did a knit along for these thrummed mittens.  It sounded like fun, so I ordered the yarn from River City Yarns in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  (Note that River City Yarns is no longer selling yarn - looks like great classes, though).  The black Yarn is River City Yarns Epic yarn.  I purchased the roving from River City Yarns, but it is from Fleeceartist.com . It is Merino Silver in the colorway Hibiscus.  Their yarns look wonderful (as a browse the site) - seems like a great place to purchase yarn (not just roving).  Will I ever knit the thrummed mittens?  I don't know. 

By the way, if you want to know what thrumming is, it is apparently a Canadian thing.  You can learn more here.

Reflecting Pool Scarf

 This is why it is helpful to maintain a blog.  

I think this is the yarn I am currently using.

You can see in the image (at least I included the tags in the picture) that this is Malabrigo Rios yarn in the color Reflecting Pool.  Do I know where it came from? I do not.  I can't remember, and that is a shame, because purchasing location is part of what makes souvenir yarn an actual souvenir.  Maybe it came from Kanawha City Yarn Company - that is my "local yarn store" (an hour from my home), and they do sell Malabrigo yarn. 

I am knitting it now, and I am almost done with the - you guessed it - scarf.  It's the Yarn Harlot's "pattern" - rows of stitches divisible by 4 + 2, then knit, knit, knit in back loop, purl.  Knit two at the end.  Great, useful scarf pattern that I love.  I'll have to check to see the needle size.  I should do that before I bind off.

It's been knit mainly in movie theaters, and is almost complete.

Stacking Cowl, Complete

Yes, it has been a long time since I posted on this blog.  I have good intentions, but don't follow through.  But one of my goals this year was to restart this blog.  It's late in the year for the goal, but it is still 2023, so I think it counts.  

Let's set the goal at two posts per month (or more) and see how I do. Let's pick it up where I left it off; with the blankety blank stacking cowl.  I did finish it.  

The image was taken inside at night, so the colors are a little off.  I did adjust it, but sunshine would have been better. My goal was to stack the lime green. You can see how I failed, and at what point I decided I just didn't care about stacking.  

I do like the cowl.  I love the colors. 

Here's the first time I wore it - yesterday.  I don't remember when I finished it, but it was provably too warm to wear it, and -- well -- whatever, I did wear it yesterday and liked it.  I am glad it's finished, most of all.