Spinning Round Up

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I’ve been (because 1/3 of that fleece that filled the trunk in the previous post came to live with me) trying to use up a bunch of the spinning stash, and as a result have been most industrious at the wheel. (Nothing like running out of room to light a fire under you.) The spinning stash is as out of control as a 16 year old with a credit card and a pair of ill fitting jeans, and I’m determined to convert much of it to yarn and get it out the door. Since I’ve made similar vows about things like the sock yarn stash (and had it promptly double in size) this time I really mean it. Here’s what I’ve finished:

Another Enchanted Knoll batt was converted to yarn, and I forget the colourway that this is (I’ve misplaced the label, sorry guys.) but I my best guess would be that it’s not Gold Dust Woman. (That’s a terrible guess, I know) since this is much darker and more like an old penny.

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It has sparkles in it too, and I’m surprised how much my linen-wearing-veggie-eating-tree-hugging self really loves them. It puts a little disco in my heart. (The sparkles aren’t showing up well here, but trust me. This skein has lots of it.)

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Then, still feeling productive, I took one of the Sheep 2 Shoe kits (I think this colourway was a one-off…) and attempted a self striping yarn. I divided the roving into three chunks, then stripped each one in half and spun each half in the same direction,

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and then plied the halves against each other to get the colours to match up – which they really, really didn’t. I have sneaking suspicion that I might have jumbled the bobbins and some point, so I tried again with the last one, and was way, way more careful.

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That worked. The end result was two skeins of a marled (barberpole) yarn, and one skein of a really nice striping yarn, where the colours lined up beautifully.

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How I’d use this in a project would make me more crazy (I have a thing about stuff matching) but luckily this was a gift for the lovely Rachel H, and now it’s her problem that the stuff doesn’t match. You can see the matchy one on the far right, and that the other two are quite a bit more random – still pretty mind you, and it’s really lovely squishy dk weight yarn.. but not matchy. Rachel H claims to love it, but the proof will be in whether or not it’s ever on her needles.

Next up? A great big batt from the now defunct Lindenhof mill – that’s taking up a lot of real estate in the wool room.

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It’s a pretty green on one end, and a lovely cream on the other, and I’m going to spin it to preserve that change. it’s a really, really big batt (300g) and I imagine that if I do it right, I’ll end up with a very long skein with one looooong colour change, white to green. I imagine then that it would make a pretty stunning circular shawl. White in the middle, shading out to the green around the edge, like a wildflower or… well. Queen Anne’s lace… which was exactly what the batt was named. (I may be a little impressionable.)

All I need now is the perfect circular shawl pattern… and, er. The yarn. (Ok. This might take a bit.)

Maybe I’ll knit some socks while I figure it out.

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  2. Ummm…yes, the yarn would be nice. Beautiful work! Now if only I could get my fleece stash down. Actually spinning it (as opposed to thinking about spinning it) would help.

  3. What gorgeous fiber! This morning I was lamenting that I had spent so much time at the sewing machine I had none left for the spinning wheel, and this just reinforces my decision to let the sewing go hang for awhile. Bring on the fiber! (I think I like the non-matchy skeins better than the matchy ones–but I’d really have to see them knitted up. Gorgeous colors, tho, matchy or not.)

  6. OK, so I have converted the 300g to ounces for my US educated way of spinning and found that it’s a little over 10 ounces of fluff. So, assuming you’re double plying the stuff how many meters of yarn do you think you’ll get out of it? Usually socks take about 4 ounces, so this would give you four pairs and an extra sock? Just trying to figure out how much yardage you’ll get out of this.

  7. hi Steph. It’s Gorgeous. I am envious. you seem so organized. I am embarking on a blanket for our last daughter, Sally, who is a senior in high school. I’ve made blankets for them all, It’s in squares that can be carried around in one’s purse..and knit on the fly. I love to spin too, and I love this green to white batt. A lovely lace circular shawl….maybe from Heirloom Lace? I also must say that I was feeling exactly as you were the other day when your daughter left. I have three girls, and the last is a year away from music conservatory…. it’ll go fast and then…..empty nest. ARGH. Love, Kathleen in Vermont

  8. hi Steph. It’s Gorgeous. You seem so organized. I am surely not… I am embarking on a blanket for our last daughter, Sally, who is a senior in high school. I’ve made blankets for them all, It’s in squares that can be carried around in one’s purse..and knit on the fly. I love to spin too, and I love this green to white batt. A lovely lace circular shawl….maybe from Heirloom Lace? I also must say that I was feeling exactly as you were the other day when your daughter left. I have three girls, and the last is a year away from music conservatory…. it’ll go fast and then…..empty nest. ARGH. Love, Kathleen in Vermont

  9. I love the idea of your disco side coming out! I’m a beige/linen person myself, but I too like a little color and sparkle occasionally–especially when I’m spinning rather than wearing something…

  11. You’ve been busy. All of the skeins you spun are beautiful! I can’t wait to see what the green and white roving become. I think a shawl like you described would be really nice.

  16. it looks like you spun up an Enchanted Knoll farm Cleopatra batt! I’m spinning up one of these as laceweight right now–they’re beautiful!

  17. I am trying to control my fiber envy…My spinning wheel is sans fiber at the moment…and unfortunately no fiber in sight. I’d be more than happy to help you whittle that stash down!!

  20. Oooo. I love that Queen Anne’s Lace shawl by MMario. I think I might need to knit that one . . . I wish I could knit lace while the kids are awake!

  21. Ooh, such gorgeous yarn! And I love that last batt; I can’t wait to see how it turns out. I haven’t had the courage to attempt anything in the way of “planning” with the colors in my fiber yet. You’re inspiring me, though!

  24. Such beautiful yarn, and that white-to-green batt is just lovely. Hmm, a circular pattern. There’s about a zillion of them on Ravelry, but I’d second the suggestion for MMario’s Queen Anne’s Lace pattern. It’s definitely worthy of your to-be-spun yarn.

  25. If I remember correctly, there’s a circular shawl pattern in the “Victorian Lace Knitting” book – I’m at work and the book is at home so I can’t be sure but I’m pretty sure I saw a picture of one in there.
    The Queen Anne’s lace is such a pretty batt 🙂

  27. I’m chipping in to say MMario’s lace shawls too! I aspire to knit one but I’d far rather watch you do it!
    Show us more spinning!
    ps. If you want to clear some space I bet that gansey is taking up stacks of it…

  28. You know what they say about crash dieters losing fast and gaining it all back with interest. It’s a lifestyle change that really keeps the weight off. I suspect that you have little interest in changing your lifestyle, and will continue to yo-yo diet.

  29. I will shamelessly say if you need to move yarn out the door I’ll take some 😉

  30. I’m looking for just such a shawl pattern. Please share your thoughts on this one. I have 6 skeins of Shelridge Farm Soft Touch Ultra (fingering weight) in purples that go from dark to very light. They were given to me by the family of a dear friend who died before she could knit the wool. I think she meant it to be a shawl and so it shall be – but I need the right pattern. Or perhaps I need to make up my own – but it would be so much easier to follow a pattern.

  31. Have you seen the Vernal Equinox Surprise Shawl? It’s not circular. It’ a Pi Shawl (Elizabeth Zimmermann) and it’s a free pattern on Ravelry. I found it easy enough to knit that I’m now on my third one.
    (Chanting to myself) “I am not a spinner. I am not a spinner. I am a knitter. I am knitter.” How long do you think it will take me to convince myself after seeing your beautiful spinning?
    SweetCaroline on Ravelry

  32. Remember your pi shawl, double the rows, double your stitches. Choose lace panels/repetitions that have the right number of stitches. (Note: here you get to sit and flip through your books. looking very intent, saying hmmm every once in while.) Perhaps a simple lattice in the very center, then a petally design, and then when you get to the green, do a leafy pattern. THen you have, as you look down on it, the center of the flower, the petals, and the greenery around. I’d spin and knit it as a single.
    Gillian

  33. I LOVE the idea of the circular shawl shading from white to green. I hope you spin that one up next and cast it on right away because I can’t wait to see how it would look!

  35. Oh wow, a 300g batt! That makes my little 30g batts I bought a few weeks ago look like pathetic weaklings in a muscleman contest!
    I suppose you need industrial sized machinery to make one of those *sigh*

  36. Perfect shawl pattern for a batt named Queen Anne’s Lace? I think that would be MMario’s Queen Anne’s Lace on Ravelry. Stunning shawl. (I’m not biased, even if I did knit one for my daughter’s bridal veil, hah!)
    Now that I read the other comments, I see that I’m not the first to suggest this shawl. Goes to show that I’m really not biased. (hah, hah!)

  37. For self striping, of course you can Navajo ply, but there is no guarantee that the stripes will match with the same length and frequency. Love to see your spinning posts, as I too am being squeezed out of house and home by my yarn and fiber stash! I haven’t started with fleeces, yet, but the itch is there….

  38. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/secret-garden-3
    Secret Garden shawl by Janine le Cras is a lovely possibility for your yarn.
    I’ll look forward to watching the progress of whichever pattern you choose.
    Always love reading your posts. We moved to Oz from CA 8 years ago. I hope your daughter has a wonderful visit. If she comes to the southwest she has a place to stay with us and lots of yarn and fleece, roving and socks in progress to make her feel at home. 🙂

  41. I agree with the pi shawl suggestion. Has the advantage of using up all the yarn, if you use the crochet-off edge method. Gorgeous stuff you make, lady.

  43. I was going to suggest the Secret Garden Shawl as well as it is now available in a pattern since the Mystery KAL is over. I am mulling over some yarn and color choices for it. I am currently knitting Vortex which is a free pattern on Ravelry.

  44. But wait, don’t you have the space of an entire teenager that you can fill with fleece/yarn until Christmas?

  45. I have to confess, my cotton-wearing-veggie-eating-tree-hugging self has never really liked sparkles in yarn. But then I never liked disco. Except for Blondie. But you know. They were more punk.
    But your yarn is all beautiful! Have you actually been spinning on a non-Tuesday? Good for you!

  46. You have the energy of an Amazon! How do you manage to produce so many beautiful things in a flash! Are you channeling some Fiber Fairy? Love all the photos and progress reports.
    Eve in Carlisle

  47. The first shawl I thought of was EZ’s Pi shawl pattern. I think it would be spectacular knit in that yarn you’re going to spin. You’re giving me the urge to spin, and my spindle and fibre basket is behind a wall of packed boxes. I might have to move the boxes.

  48. Tracey was right – it’s undoubtedly a Cleopatra batt. Having lived entirely off the grid in the wild woods of Maine for 7 years and being a birkie wearing tree hugging organic/natural farmer for years numbering in the teens – I can say a ‘sistah’ to the surprise that is finding you like a little disco in your life from time to time. I never thought I was a sparkle person but, you know, it’s good to feel that funk now and again:)
    hands steph a cold glass of microbrew from the sidelines and some homemade pretzels for energy to finish her spinathon so she can get to that fleece:)

  49. If you get around to spinning a fleece or two before the month’s end, come join us on Abby’s forum on Rav; we have a Fleece to the Finish thang going on.
    Although I’d really be surprised if you don’t get distracted from all that stash-spinning-up before too long what with all that yarn around…

  50. Hmm…let me think…if only you had a book with a customizeable circular shawl pattern in it…oh, wait a minute, you wrote a book with such a pattern in it!!! (just a little joke)
    I am confident that you can come up with a beautiful lace pattern that would suit the lovely
    yarn that beautiful batt of fiber becomes!!!
    I always love it when you show bunches of wonderful yarn and fiber, or knitted goods, they inspire me to try new things in my knitting!!!

  51. Just a heads up–Mercury goes restrograde late Sunday night/early Monday morning, depending on where you live. Just saying, because people said they wanted warning this time around.
    As Lynn Hayes says, “When Mercury is retrograde we sometimes must sign contracts and make other commitments and agreements that are not ideal under these circumstances. DO NOT FEAR!! Just take the necessary precautions and move forward in your life with confidence. If you plan a vacation and it rains, you don’t cancel your vacation. Just bring an umbrella.”

  52. Restrograde? I don’t think so. Let’s try for retrograde.
    And your yarn is GORGEOUS!

  57. Girasole is a lovely circular shawl (ravel it)
    I love your ‘mismatched’ yarn -if Rachel doesn’t claim it I know a good home for it (evil grin)

  60. I’m in love with those fibers! I want to spin. But I need instruction and materials. And time. There’s never enough of that!

  63. That is one gorgeous huge batt! It’s great to see your spinning update. Good luck with it… and the socks. 😉
    Also, I enjoyed reading your and Denny McMillan’s “Wool Gathering” article in the latest Spin-Off, which arrived in my mailbox today. It really was a story that needed to be told! The lace insert gives the cowl an unusual effect, too.

  64. You make me wish I knew how to spin. Or was around people who could teach me. Unfortunately, I’m not. **sigh**

  65. Well, since you’re back to spinning I was wondering about something. Did you ever finish Joe’s Wedding Gansey? I lost track of it with the wool stealing squirrels.

  66. “You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby…” aack! Now I’ve caught an earworm. The green-fading-to-cream batt looks heavenly. If I wasn’t so dreadfully tired I’d sit down, dust off my wheel and spin a few yards.

  67. what about the mittens? What happened to them? 🙂 It is driving me crazy! Picture time, Steph!

  68. Seen the Rona Lace shawl from Knit Picks? It’s lovely and circular and amazing when it’s finished. 🙂

  70. oh this spinning is so good for you right now for decompressing post SS, sending a daughter across the ocean,and finding a new rhythm for a new season….
    beautiful job by the way!

  72. Knitting Goddess has a neat pattern for a circular shawl called Mandala (sp?). It was one of her mystery shawls, but had the twist of being able to choose from 4 different charts each clue to make your own shawl. Might be neat for the beautiful batt, and not repetative so it’ll stay interesting.

  73. You have already thought this through, not like I would have done. If it were me I’d spend half a lifetime making laceweight out of the big batt and THEN realise that I only needed half of it for a decent sized shawl. The result would be two shawls with not much colour progression.
    I sorted my fibre earlier this year – now I have a yarn challenge.

  74. Do not be lured by the siren song of singles up there. Listen to the person who said Navajo ply for that Queen Anne’s Lace batt. Doesn’t it deserve a little extra effort? You a slacker? You SCARED? Huh? Huh?

  75. I’m going to quintuple suggest MMario’s Queen Anne’s lace circular shawl – it’s next on my needles, once I get caught up a bit (quit yer giggling…). ‘Twould be beautiful!

  76. Not to be egotistical or anything, but may I suggest my Emily’s Firmaments shawl? No one’s done it yet in a yarn with a long color change, only solids. Anyhoo, beautiful stuff there!!!

  80. Please, what kind of wheel are you spinning this on? Enquiring minds are looking for input on wheel types and ratios. thanks!

  81. Really lovely work. I envy your spinning skill so much. Someday I hope to have enough time to spend with my sorely neglected wheel so that I might get half as good as you are. I can’t wait to see that last batt spun up — I agree, a shawl with that slow color change would be beautiful.

  83. Again, your spinning inspires me. I LOVE your non-matchy marled yarn. I’m usually very left-brain logical, all matchy but sometimes… well, I’m smitten by that yarn!
    And can’t wait to see the white to green! My spinning has so far to go to reach that kind of a goal!

  84. While it was fun joining on your adventure of the sock summit, I am so glad you are back writing about spinning and knitting…I’m so impressed, I can’t believe you can get so much spinning done so quickly! And the final results are lovely! I have always been a commercial-yarn-user, and recently discovered a local shop where the owner spins most of her yarn from all kinds of fibers. What a discovery. Opens up a whole new world! Now I have a better idea of what you are talking about!

  86. Sadly seeing all of this gorgeous yarn just makes me want to bat my eyes at you and see if some of it could make its way to Boston.
    A silly thing to think, because you have plenty of potential yarn recipients in your own back yard!
    And yes, this means I find your yarn gorgeous. Just amazingly gorgeous.

  89. I would love to see how you spin that batt to preserve the color. That is where my spinning needs improvement, figuring out what to do with color. If you are so inclined, pls let us (well me anyway) know how you do that.
    I’m doing Queen Anne’s lace now, and I’m totally addicted. Only mine is solid red. I’m going through my red phase.

  93. Wow, spinning up that huge batt into lace weight for a circulatr shawl… that’s almost as ambitious as spinning up enough yarn for say, a gansey.

  97. Wow, really gorgeous green and white batt… love it. I’m sure your shawl will be stunning. I’m excited for you!

  99. I’m going to steer you towards MMario’s shawls, as well. He uses a variety of Sci-Fi/Fantasy books for his inspirational themes. The Terry Pratchett shawl patterns are a hoot, but beautiful, too.

  100. Beautiful choices; I love the copper blend. Can’t wait to see the final products from both batts; the circular shawl will be stunning.
    Your notes are inspiring; I’m still sniffling over airports and Oz; but must resist your efforts to lead down the spinning path. Too few hours in the day for the knit wish list that’s already behind. And, while I’ve learned how to work around my two Siamese “assistants” with the knitting needles (sisters from the same litter – age 17+), learning to spin and avoid their valiant efforts to chime in might be a bit much.
    Also, nice to “see” Rams back in the comments.. not lurking, just wish I had the blessing of such friends (Rams, Presbytera, Denny, Rachel H) close by. Namaste –

  101. Can I ask you about the bowl on the table behind the green and cream batt? It looks like one my aunt and uncle make, with a fish in the bottom, fins sticking up off the rim. Marked AW. Just curious, with 6-degrees-of-separation type curiousness.

  102. what gorgeous hand spun and very, very lucky Rachel H!
    but re the space shortage, perhaps i shouldn’t encourage this but don’t you have a whole new stash room, i.e. the-room-that-was-once-amanda’s? surely you could fill that room with fiber and then spin it up in a rush before she returns in december?? i bet that would make the 4 months of her absence fly by! 😉

  103. They are all beautiful. Rachel is so blessed to have a friend that would give her such beautiful yarn. She will run fearlessly with it.
    All the colors are just so…fall. I love the Queen Anne’s. That will be gorgeous.
    You inspire.

  104. I love seeing the batt to yarn production cycle — it always amazes me how something that looks like a pile of fluff ends up yarn to have fun with.

  105. Feathers Wrap. You have plenty of yarn (or you will) and its designed for yarn that changes like that.
    I’ll send you the pattern, go check your mail in case it goes to spam.

  106. Might I suggest an outside-in shawl. Remember how looonnnnggg those outside rounds of a circular shawl are going to be.

  107. chiming in, definitely check out Mmario on Ravelry. many lovely designs from him. I also made his Queen Anne’s Lace design and loved it enough to make it again. happy spinning!

  109. I found a shawl that’s lovely but not quite circular. if you Google ‘Springtime Marianne Knizel’ you’ll get a lot of hits of folks who’ve used this “Springtime” design in many ways, and you could certainly be one of them. For instance, take a look at http://www.shelda.net/blogfiles/ and scroll down to see her prototype.
    The orginal source is Marianne Knizel “First Book of Modern Lace Knitting”, Dover. The pattern is found on p. 87 (“Springtime” Design Afternoon Tea Cloth)

  110. Hi:
    Further to your comment “the proof will be if it’s
    ever on her needles”. In my case, and in my stash, there is lots of yarn that I love, and has never been on my needles, because it’s waiting for the absolutely best pattern to cast on for. When I think of giving away yarn that I’ve never used I shudder. Just because it hasn’t been used, doesn’t mean it isn’t loved. I love it just as it is. It doesn’t have to become a finished object.
    Marlyce in Windsor.

  111. Wow! I am so impressed by those mortals who spin their yarn. While all of the spining language is lost on my (I barely speak knitting) it sounds wonderfully romantic and inviting. Have fun. Your industry is impressive as well.

  112. Dear Stephanie,
    Thanks for your PSA about burn first aid awhile back. My toaster oven overheated last week and boiled a pop tart. (Yes. The frosting and the jam insides can boil.) Like an idiot (because it was really, really early), I reached in to take it out so I could dumpster it, and dunked my middle finger on my needle-maneuvering dominant hand into the super heated, sticky goo. Due to your post, I knew just the right thing to do, and got out of a third degree burn situation with a deep second degree burn. It’s a knitting curtailing bummer, but a weeks long one instead of a months or years long one. I really appreciate you sharing this critical information with me. I have serious doubts about whether my sanity would have survived months without knitting. I’m glad to not have to find out.
    A grateful fan

  113. The matching thing would make me more crazy than I already am, which would be intolerable to those who (try to) love me. So, I’d just use the gorgeous yarn as weft for weaving and it’s all good.

  114. I just finished a handspun shawl with this kind of colour progression, and there’s one thing I thought important when choosing a pattern: either you choose the pattern beforehand, look at how many yards it needs, and spin the yarn to match, or you choose a pattern that allows for easy modification to make it bigger, so you can be sure you’ll use all the yarn and not end the shawl before the last colour is used (that is, because I was very sure I wanted to use all colours and not have any left out). For that reason only I’d stay away from Girasole, because it has a knitted-on border and I wouldn’t want to risk the border changing colour mid-circumference. Mmario’s Queen Anne’s Lace is easier to embiggen, by adding extra border repeats. It uses between 1000 yards and 1300 yards, usually, so with 300g of fiber I’d spin it at fingering weight…

  115. This is in no way related, but I was amused. This is from the IBOL site:
    8. What, no love for knitters? What? Of course there’s love for knitters. Send yard. Send needle thingies. Send the Yard Harlot.

  116. Stephanie – I’d love to see what your creative mind does with the plain ole’ EZ Pi Shawl . . . So many people have tweaked it, but you are an amazing tweaker!!
    :O)

  117. As always, the urge to learn to spin has hit. I wants the Queen Anne Lace fibre sooooooo bad!

  118. so so so so jealous!! i’ve been watching your blog eagerly since january from the UK, and i’ve even read all your old posts!! promise i’m not a stalker 😀 i’m almost 21 and have just started knitting again, after about 16 years since i last picked up a pair of needles!! any advice all you pro’s can give me would be much appreciated! I have this crazy idea of knitting everyone socks for xmas this year, i’m in the merchant navy and seem to have a lot of spare time on my hands on ship, when i’m not e-stalking steph and driving the ship that is 😀

  119. About 1 1/2 years or so ago I started to read your blog, and I spent my free time at work (weekend shifts in a call center has its lulls) reading up all the posts from the begnning. At the beginning I just scrolled through th espinning posts… “Oh, I am NOT a spinner”, but reading them through made me want to try it more and more… I tried to fight the urge for a while, but at a point I cave in and bought some wool and a spindle, and I can’t put it down…
    You really inspired me to spin… and now I am eagerly waiting these posts…
    BTW I am a pure linen in white kinda gal, but you should see all the rainbow colored rowings/batts the keep showing up in my stash…

  121. I LOVE Enchanted Knoll and Josette is so great! I think that it may be the color “Cleopatra”- I just finished spinning 8 ounces of Cleopatra for Anne Hanson’s Mapleweing. Are you in the Happy Hooves batt club? I’m sure that you have gotten many messages about this, but I can’t stop thinking about that simply beautiful cowl that you made last year and I even have the perfect so soft yarn for it and it’s getting cooler around here and I really want to knit one…. I know, I know, no one likes a whiny knitter…. But you know how it goes…. Any chance that this pattern is written (wasn’t Abby test-knitting- she’s not busy, is she?) and available for sale? I can’t stop the obsession for this cowl…. Thanks :), Jessica in CT (stripedsocks on Ravelry)

  123. I’m guessing the Queen Anne’s Lace batt is romney? Even as a single, that’s going to be a substantial yarn. Won’t have enough yardage for MMario’s Queen Anne’s Lace, I don’t think.

  124. There is not enough time in my life for all I want to, especially spinning!
    BTW, even though I know your blog is much too big for such nonsense, I had to nominate you for an award over at my blog…

  125. I am a wanna-be spinner & have no clue of what spindle to start with…could someone give me some guidance?

  126. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put in to this blog. I look forward to every new post and enjoy reading your books (I have all of them) over and over again. Only five and a half weeks left before the NYS&W — hope to see you there this year ?

  127. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put in to this blog. I look forward to every new post and enjoy reading your books (I have all of them) over and over again. Only five and a half weeks left before the NYS&W — hope to see you there this year.

  128. A woman in my knitting group knit one of the circular shawls from A Gathering of Lace in a yarn with long color changes, cream to rose to garnet and back again. Of course I can’t remember the name, and since I just skimmmed the comments someone’s probably mentioned it already, but it’s a pi shawl with a sort of gull-wings motif in the first section that’s big enough to have a pattern.
    I see that someone did mention MMario’s patterns. He does some pretty amazing work. Somewhere I have a lace piece he made me for a swap.

  129. Yummmm. I know it’ll be gorgemous. I have a totally unrelated question. Do you remember that lovely lace neck warmer that you did a year or two ago? Will you ever publish that pattern? Maybe somewhere that we can purchase & benefit MSF? Just a thought. . . Thanks!

  130. The perfect circular shawl pattern for this yarn is feather and fan. If you are interested, please contact me.

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