Last you heard….

I was on my way to Yarnover. Well??!! What happened?

I had 2 great classes. One from Susan Newhall on “Blended Intarsia”, the other from Amy Singer of Knitty on “Making the next Monkey” I was greatly inspired by both of them. I bought some great MadTosh from StevenBe, a bit of Habu to experiment with, and A lovely skein of fingering weight Grinning Gargoyle, in their Signature Red. Whew. That is quite enough links for any one paragraph.

What happened when I got home? My class with Amy and the Grinning Gargoyle got together, and I feverishly worked on a shawlette to try and make  the Knitty Deep Fall deadline of June 1st. I got the knitting done, blocked it, had time to do one photo shoot, and mailed it in. Now I wait. I would have loved more time on the photos, but deadlines are deadlines. I can not show a picture of the shawlette. Publications do insist on that element of surprise. I can post a teaser though.

The yarn was soft and very drapey. I think it worked great for this piece.

The minute I finished this one though, the next one insisted on being knit. I am working on a variation of the above structure, this time playing with a striping yarn. Crystal Palace’s Sausalito to be precise.

Whee!