Last night while watching the Festival of Botox, aka the Academy Awards, I started spinning some angora. This fur comes from a rescue bunny named Hershey and is divine. I've finished one bobbin and should finish another today. I wish I didn't have to ply this stuff but it is necessary to make a decent yarn. I didn't realize how much fur I had to spin until recently so I'm working on this project solely until further notice.




This will be a busy week but I'll try to post again on Friday with my progress.

I finished the gloves. They're knit with Nature Spun sport weight and size 1 dpns. Pardon the bad scan but it is late at night here.




Here is the pattern booklet they came from. The pattern is called "Cosies" and there are many goofy pattern names including Rough and Ready Mittens, Tailor Maids, Summertime Shorties and Warmies for Men.

FUN WITH VINTAGE PATTERNS

Here's a fun Christmas pattern from 1952, purchased at Vintage Knits. The knitted reindeer is quite cute but I fail to see the connection between the golf bag and clubs (above Santa's head) with the rest of the holiday items.

I was planning on showing lots of vintage patterns at once but once again I've failed to get any knitting accomplished so I'll do one a day instead.

In the comments Mary asked about finding a CSA in her area. Both Green People and CSA Center have directories of CSAs but I'm not sure how current they are. Neither lists our big CSA, Los Poblanos Organic, which uses produce from a variety of farmers around the state and offers shares year-round. I suggest asking around at the local health foods co-op or farmer's market.