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Shawls

I am on a shawl roll.

I have 22 rows and a CO to finish my own Ulmus. I knitted quite a few rows of it last Saturday while managing to knit quite by myself but in public as the day demanded:

Knitting by myself in a Pub in Lewiston, NY

Knitting by myself in a Pub in Lewiston, NY

Still Knitting in Public, Bridges, Georgian Bay, ON, Canada

Still Knitting in Public, Bridges, Georgian Bay, ON, Canada

Last Wednesday I succumbed to a yarn I kept finding in different yarn shops since just before Christmas 2007. What kept attracting me to it are all those colors. Actually I think I first saw it in a bulky version and I bought the worsted one but the colors are the same, it is Misti Alpaca Hand Painted Worsted in the colorway Neruda. From some reason I can’t find my colorway on their website, maybe they don’t sell it any more.

Thursday I couldn’t resist it and started the Shawl that Jazz and I enjoy every minute of it. All those colors on my needles really make me happy:

Aren't they pretty?

Aren't they pretty?

On Saturday I received the very beautiful Whisper Lace Yarn in the colorway Arabian Nights I ordered from Kim of The Woolen Rabbit, this is going to be a special gift for my sister who is going to be 60 at the end of September. I  tried to take a photo of the yarn:

So Soft, So beautiful but the colors are all wrong

So Soft, So beautiful but the colors are all wrong

But couldn’t get even close to the real colors. I think the gray weather that by the way,  make me quite happy, didn’t help, although my guess is that this color will be difficult to photograph even under the best conditions. It is much darker, rich  and oh so beautiful and soft. This is going to be a very pleasurable project indeed.

Oh and I already know what I am going to knit next and yes, it is another shawl, the Milkweed Shawl by Laura Chau, I saw it on her when I visited Lettuce Knit last Wednesday and was so happy to see the published pattern on her blog the next day! I have this very same color of Casbah yarn waiting to become something lovely for me. When I bought this yarn I thought I will have to find a pattern to knit something that will not hide in my shoes most of the time and I think I just found it.

I wonder how long I will manage to resist starting this one too. I need to knit a pair of socks before I start this one, do you hear me Rachel?!?

Animals in a City

While contemplating what I want to write about the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival, life gave my darling Joe another excuse to travel and I found myself yet again in Southern Vermont (not that I complain).

Immediately I found an excuse to visit my favorite spinnery there – The Green Mountain Spinnery:

Home of the friendliest spinners in Vermont

Greem Mountain Spinnery

My excuse this time: I am not sure I have enough meadow yarn to finish my Dandelions Shawl! (Unfortunately they had only 4 skeins of this wonderful color and not surprisingly they sold all of them in New Hampshire but they ordered one for me from the dyer so I just have to wait.)

But, actually as the header of this post suggest, I wanted to show you today some moose we encountered on our way back:

Moosefest, Bennington, Vermont

Sofia and Shamoose, Moosefest, Bennington, Vermont


Mooses all over Bennington, Vermont

Morpheus, Bennington, Vermont


Another of those Mooses

Vincent: I think he is related to Sofia and Shamoose from the other photo,,,


The Hippy of the Bennington Moose Fest, May 2009

Ziggy the Hippy-Pot-O-Moose of the Bennington MooseFest, May 2009


Covered Bridge Moose in Bennington, VT, May 2009

Covered Bridge Moose in Bennington, VT, May 2009

This one was my favorite, it is made of thousands of tiny photos:

Close up of the Bridge Moose

Close up of the Picture This Moose

I think his name is Picture This but I nicknamed it: The Covered Bridge Moose. It caught the attention of other passers-by:

Girls Checking the Bridge Moose, Bennington, VT, May 2009

Girls Checking the Bridge Moose, Bennington, VT, May 2009


These ladies found the Bridge Moose facinating too

These ladies found the Bridge Moose facinating too

We even found one in the The Village Chocolate Shoppe:

Yummy Moose

Yummy Moose

Apparently they have a Moosefest in Bennington, Vermont these days:

Even the moose get their own crossing in Bennington, VT

The moose get their own crossing in Bennington, VT

When you invite a lot of moose to your town, you better take good care of them, just like they do in Bennington, VT.

This is the third time we encounter animals in a city. The first ones were penguins in Tel Aviv (Scroll down), unfortunately I couldn’t locate any photos of them, I think it was in 2000 or so. The second time was in Sedona when  Margene and Smith came to visit Arizona and we found all those Javelinas in the streets of Sedona. And now the Moosefest, I wonder where and what we will find next!