Here's Dale of Norway's Kashmir in Tiur. The first photo is pretty true colorwise. You can see the striping which isn't obvious in the pattern photo but is quite obvious in person. I am not sure what I'll do at this point although I figure I'll go ahead and finish the first sleeve before I decide. So what would the rest of you do in this situation? Just keep knitting?



I've been corresponding via email with Wanda who did Kashmir in an unusual colorway of blue and green and yellow. She saw it on a Dale ready wear sweater and Bea Ellis got her some of the discontinued green color. She sent me a photo of her sleeve and the colors are just beautiful. I'll see if I can get her permission to post it here on the blog. She also was surprised by the striping and also wasn't sure she liked it at first but she's close to finishing it now.



Unfortunately it looks like we won't be able to make it to Taos Wool Festival this weekend. sigh We took Snickerdoodle the rabbit to the veterinarian today and the vet said I need to give him his meds hourly for a while. I'll wait and decide for sure after he sees the vet again Thursday morning. I was hoping to take photos for the blog but mainly planned to buy books which I can buy anywhere. Maybe I'll take photos of the Balloon Fiesta instead. My sweet brown bunny is definitely enjoying all the extra attention and treats.

Stash Photos

THE STASH






These hold my yarn stash (other than yarn used in works in progress). I have a container of worsted weight yarns (Nature Spun, Cascade 220, Classic Elite Tapestry), one of DK weight yarns (Dale Heilo, Country Garden DK), one of fingering weight yarns (Stahl Baby Merino, Pingouin Laine , Nature Spun, Wildfoote, one container of sport weight yarn (mainly Nature Spun), one container just for a ton of Nylamb (long-gone fingering weight sock yarn) I purchased on Ebay, one container with odds and ends for future Spontaneous Scarves and one finally one with non-wool yarns.





And here are my two containers of fleece and fibers for spinning.

Not much to report today. Still knitting on the Dale baby cardigan. I'll have a photo of Kashmir tomorrow so you can judge for yourself whether or not it resembles the pattern photo. Snickerdoodle my bunny is sick so I'm giving him lots of TLC before he's off to the vet tomorrow am.

Here are the sleeves of the Dale baby sweater before blocking. The photo accurately shows the colors I chose in Norwegian Sport wool although I probably shouldn't have used my salmon colored yoga mat as the background. I hadn't yet managed to duplicate stitch the the top sleeve.







I feel like I haven't finished anything in 100 years. At least this cone hat from Anna Zilboorg's book in Cascade 220 is finished. Strangely enough it looks really good on DH although I was thinking of giving it away. I did the little knitted ball on top in lieu of the pompom. Anna really excels in providing fun new techniques - I liked the interesting slip stitch garter border I used.







Time to go clip Snickerdoodle's claws. He thinks if he hides under his stuffed bunny I won't be able to find him.