My Sister Was Here

My sister was visiting us and this is my excuse for the long silence.

We explored Toronto together, we went on a road trip that took us to Maine through Albany (to drop Sam at her boyfriend’s house on her way back to college) and to Quebec City on the way back to Toronto (my Joe is an expert in finding the longest way between any given two places,,,)

When Miriam arrived and saw my stash, my recently finished projects and the ones I am working on these days, she immediately felt the need to knit something too. She is not an avid knitted like me, she is doing many things, jewelry being her most serious thing these days. She decided she wants a light, small shawl and after I showed her how to start and do the increases for a basic triangle shawl, this is what she managed to finish while she was here:

Miriam's Quick Knit

She already started another scarf from her head, she is the creative spirit in our family, her head is full of great ideas in so many different areas, just amazing! (she is my one and only sister so I am allowed to brag about her, right?)

On our way to Maine we passed through New Hampshire and Joe spotted a sign on the road to The Fiber Studio, he asked if we want him to stop and we said yes, so he turned around and we found a most delightful yarn shop that offers much more than yarn and patterns:

The Fiber Studio, Henniker, NH

I have more photos of this lovely place but I wanted to show you what us sisters found in the shop:

Such a nice mix of things!

Miriam found so many different things: yarn (of course) – she went for light cottony things that will fit the Israeli weather (I coudln’t resist the softness of the warm wools even when I lived in Arizona,,,), materials to make some kind of a scarf, I call it free form as I don’t know its official name, it involvs water soluble sheets (the Mokuba brown thing in the photo), all these ribbons and the fancy thread, you need to arrange them on the sheet and then sew it (god forbid, not my cup of tea,,,). She also found a lovely beaded scarf knitted with this colorful yarn that is unique to this shop (the two colorful cakes on both sides of the more muted cotton mix cake in the center) and the beautiful wooden tray for her bead work, oh and also some lovely button we forgot to add to the tray before taking this photo – she had to stop there because of space limitation on airplanes these days,,,,

You want to guess what I bought? Yes, you are right, just some boring yarn:

Are they nice together?

I bought the center one a few weeks ago in The Naked Sheep of Toronto (they had a lovely anniversary sale with 25% discount on any yarn for the whole month of August!) and then I saw in my Ravelry favorites that its the yarn for the Daybreak I decided I must have the first time I saw it. I needed another color and couldn’t choose between these two so I had to buy them both don’t you agree?

Now, do you want to help me choose or should I use all three?

I wanted to show you the sock I very slowly knit these days (I have beautiful photos of it near the ocean in Maine – such a magnificent place!) but this post is already too long and I have to go so I will continue next time.

A Bad Case of Yarnitis

I have an uncontrollable urge to buy yarn.

I have an uncontrollable urge to buy blue* yarn (although the yarn I bought today was actually quite black…)

I blame it all on the Sock Summit reports (mainly the photos….)

No, I don’t have photos, I put most of the yarn away and try to pretend it didn’t happen.

I was so good, for almost a year I bought almost no yarn (it was quite a few months ago…)

I also bought Jared Flood new Made in Brookyen – A Classic Elite pattern booklet – I just had to have this book. I love many patterns in it. I think they could have made it larger, for the price they charge.

I finished another pair of socks last night and kitchenered and put in the ends today (this was a good practice. Note to self, try to remember it….)

I did take photos of the socks:

Regia Stretch Crazy Color

I really enjoyed knitting with the yarn. The stockinette is so uniform, beautiful.

Socks for Nir - Quite a belated birthday present

I hope you all have a great weekend and that not all of you suffer from such a bad case of yarnitis.

These are not Nir's feet

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* Do you also find yourself buying, for extended period of times, yarn in similar shades or one color family?

A few years ago, we were visiting Toronto and I went to check several yarn shops (Toronto is blessed with loads of lovely yarn shops – not very good for the budget but very good for the soul).

It was the first time I met in person Fleece Artist/Hand Maiden yarns and fell immediately in love. Only when I arrived home, I realized I bought the same colorway in different yarn blends of theirs (it was my red period then) and other skeins were in other shades of red.

Blocked at Long Last

I managed to block my Ulmus II:

I didn't manage to have it all stretched and nice behind my back oh well

It took me only 49 days, shame one me!

I like the point of this shawl

Do you see I have a new hair cut?

Trying on my new Ulmus

I think I like the new hair dresser I found by chance.

If Sam will get up before the sun will go down or decide to disappear, I will take some photos of the 2 Ulmuses together and show them to you.
Sam finally got up and there was some kind of a sun still out there so Marcus took some photos of my two Ulmuses together:

Do you think we can fly?

I like the details:

I like the details of this shawl pattern

This edging is pretty I think, in both colors.

And I think we can wear them like this too:

Are they nice like that or not?

Sam on the other hand thinks only girls with no boobies (like me) or gay guys wear shawls like this. You see, she is too proud of her big boobies to be able to hide them in this fashion!

Oh and in this last photo I think you can see well the different drape of the 2 shawls.

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My Sister Was Here

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Blocked at Long Last