sheep in the city

A finished Seraphim & a little purple yarn...

I bound off the last stitch on my Seraphim shawl on Monday night. What a great feeling! I love the way that this shawl turned out. Now I just need to block the heck out of it. I haven't been that successful at blocking in the past, between not having a proper blocking board and my cat...I just haven't got it down. But, this weekend, time willing, I'm going to block this shawl and take gorgeous pictures of it. (I've heard a rumor that we might be in for some bad weather...so I'm crossing my fingers) I have now accomplished my goal of knitting with some of the yarn that I bought last year at the Estes Park Wool Festival, therefore clearing the way for me to buy more yarn this year! Don't you love rationalizations?!

I promised to show you some purple yarn...so here it is! What you see here is about 5 sweaters, 1 summer top, 1 vest, 1 scarf, 2 lace shawls, and a couple of other random skeins. This yarn alone could keep me busy for a good long while. Sheesh.

For the sweaters:

•Cascade Cloud 9 for my Elizabeth Bennett Cardigan (from Fitted Knits)in a lovely shade of lavendar. It's actually the same color that the sweater in the book is knit out of. Such a girly and romantic color. Love it! The yarn was purchased at Colorful Yarns.

•Rowan Plaid in color 164-Sea Thistle. I got this yarn from my mom almost three years ago for my birthday. She had purchased it at 50% off at a shop in Arizona. They have awesome sales down there on wool yarn because, seriously, who needs wool in Arizona?!

•Rowan Harris Scottish Tweed Aran, purchased by me, last summer, also at 50% off. I couldn't pass up that sweet of a deal...and the purple has little flecks of hot pink in it.

•GGH Merino Soft...it's washable folks!!

•Rowan Cork...which was the beginning of a Salt Peanuts sweater, but has been ripped out. I may attempt this sweater again because I really liked the yarn and the pattern. Plus, I feel like I'm a much better knitter now then I was when I started this project 3 1/2 years ago.

The vest:
•Manos del Uraguay

Summer tops:
•SWTC Bamboo

Lace shawls and scarves:
•3 skeins of Blackberry Ridge Lace Weight, destined to become Ene from Scarf Style.
•1 skein of Skaska bought at Rhinebeck last year.
•Random Blue Sky Alpaca bought at a sale...no plan for this yarn
•Frog Tree Alpaca, purchased in Boston, for a scarf called Cap Cod.

That's all folks! Now you know why I have been saying that purple is the new pink...doesn't that seem like a crazy amount of purple yarn? At least for someone who has been claiming for years not to like purple? I'm planning on doing some heavy duty knitting this weekend. I need to finish up some stuff for a couple of my up coming classes that I'm teaching! Have a great weekend!

Posted by Stacey at May 4, 2007 10:35 AM