Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Purelife by Rowan
5.5 sts/inch on US 5s
100% Organic Cotton
131 yards. Color: 984
Purelife on Ravelry

This yarn had such a lovely color that it drew me in while I was knitting with it. I loved that it had this subtle variation in color similar to a kettle dyed yarn. It was really hard to see it in the yellow but I was knitting outside and the sunshine brought out the differences.

Now I might have loved the color but I was not too keen on the knitting experience. The swatch is only 4" by 3 1/2" and in that short time span of knitting it, my hands started to hurt. Not badly but enough to make me wonder if I would enjoy an entire outfit out of this yarn. It was also a bit hard to not split the plies. I never thought I would say that about a yarn but it would start to unwind a bit on the needle and so by the time I was to knit into the stitch the plies would be spread out. It was definitely a mindful knit. Also any variation in your stitches will not block out.

I wish I could keep the colors and have a bit less rough of a yarn. I know that this has great ecological value because it is organic but organic does not need to mean hard and crunchy. Another yarn I used this month was organic and nice on the hands, so I know it can be done.

The resulting material is nice, soft & plump all that you would expect in summery fabric.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Matsuri by Noro
5 sts/inch on US 7s
87% Cotton, 13% Wool
159 yards. Color: 3
Matsuri on Ravelry

The Noro Matsuri is a unique yarn. It is a cabled construction similar to finger weaving done by children out of sewing thread weight yarns. The wool strand gets slubby in places but I think that is the joy of this yarn. As a cotton yarn, this is very easy on the hands. I barely noticed the cotton at all. I got a half stitch per inch more than what was recommended on the info included about it. I loved the color I got. It was multi-dimensional. Most likely from the wool and cotton mixed together. My sample seems to have come from the same stripe so I was not able to get the feel of the color change within this yarn. I do wish this yarn came as a single color because it would be such a nice dimensional color. I did not notice much of a change when I washed and blocked my swatch.

I think my color came from Colorway 2 not 3 because I have not seen the turquoise color in 3.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Since I have not received this months yarn offerings, I thought I would show my hang test for the swatches. Not much changed but the white fingering weight yarn that I talked about 2 weeks ago. It grew by 1/4" in length.

I think that these yarns did not change much because they were not large enough swatches to get an accurate showing of what the weight of the yarn plus gravity would do to the overall look of the yarn.

If you are curious which yarns are which, I put notes on the photo in flickr so click on the pic and it will lead you to the answer.

After a month of staring at these yarns, I am in love with the white fingering and the dark grey fluffy ribbon.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Filosophy by Trendsetter
4 sts/inch on US 8s
55% Cotton, 45% Polyamide
110 yards Color: 103

The final ribbon yarn of the month is Filosophy. This is an interesting yarn made up of a mess nylon ribbon and a matte cotton ribbon that are connected as one yarn. The ribbon did not snag while on the needles. It smoothly knit. It felt a bit like suede yarn because of the drag factor across my wooden needles. It created a pleasant stockinette texture but not my cup of tea. It created too thick and dense of a material for my liking. This yarn was the most off in proposed gauge to the gauge that I attained. I got a full inch more per stitch at 5 sts/inch.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Manipur by Karabella Yarns
7.5 sts/inch on US 3s
100% silk
190 yards color: 150

Being not a big ribbon yarn fan, I expected to dislike these yarns this month. This yarn surprised me. I loved the feel as it flowed through my hands as I knit on it. This is definitely a yarn that would create lovely texture within a stockinette fabric. It is not difficult to knit with. The ribbon bits do not get snagged by the needle. My gauge was almost spot on the recommendation at 7.6 sts/inch. In hand it has a crunchy feel that is delightful. The patterns to support this yarn are all lace stoles. Since I did not have more, I was not able to try out what it would look like in lace. I think this yarn might enter my stash as a single skein to be swatched with further.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Bamboo splash by Wisdom yarns
5.5 sts/inch on US 6s
100% Bamboo
87 yards. Color 106

This is a machine created variegated yarn. You can tell by the regularity in the pooling. I love bamboo and hoped that I would like this yarn. It was a disappointment. It was too heavy. The gauge I got on US 6s was a bit smaller than the stated gauge and as you can see I ran out of yarn before my swatch was done. I got a gauge of 5.75 sts/inch. Maybe at this gauge it will not drag too much. The recommended patterns for this yarn are cabled sweaters. I could see that the stitch definition would definitely show with the smooth thick yarn.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

This months yarn tasting is ribbon yarns. At the end of the month, I will be putting up a drag report. All the swatches are hanging on my bulletin board in the studio to determine if they will grow from the gravity.

Tiziana by GGH yarns
4.25 sts/inch on US 7s
75% rayon, 15% silk, 10% nylon
132 yards. color: 006

This ribbon yarn was pleasant to touch. I loved the texture created, but it is not a yarn to sit back and zone out with while knitting. The looseness of the ribbon weave causes the needles to poke through and pick up the stitch in the wrong place. I definitely think this will jazz up a plain stockinette pattern by adding texture. All the patterns, I have seen have been lace. These are the patterns GGH decided would best display the yarn. I would like to say that was a poor use of a lovely lofty yarn. Part of me feels that this could be a great lightweight yarn for worsted weight garments. I might even go up to a US 8 needle since the 7 gave me about .5 stitch more per inch. This is something I could see designing with. I just am not sure if it will survive the season with such poor pattern choices.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

4-4.25sts/inch on US 9s
30% Cotton, 30% viscose, 20% Angora, 20% Polyamide
102 yds, Color: CS 127

This yarn is super cozy. I for sure would not want an entire stockinette sweater out of this yarn. It is super cozy and warm. It is a little itchy on my sensitive skin. It would be a good candidate for an airy cardigan. I just don't feel what this could be but I love that it worked up nicely to the recommended gauge. If you want to mess around with the super warm Angora, this yarn is a good choice at aprox $7 a skein.

What a birthday it was?!

The weather decided to be good almost all weekend. Sunday was a bit overcast and had the usual drip drip of the Northwest. As you can see from Saturday's post, the weather was nice enough on Friday to allow me to get pics without grimacing in cold pain. Actually it was rather pleasant during the photo shoot and when I did go out into the surf, it did not seem cold. Oh no, I am acclimating to this coast's idea of what beach water should feel like. Saturday was spent with family and walking along the beach. I got my husband and Bud (the little sil of Arwen fame) to go with me into a yarn store, even though all they wanted to do was head back to the beach and dive into the surf (tis not my idea of a fun activity but they are native washingtonians).

Sunday was spent saying our goodbyes and heading home. We stopped at Ecola park (my favorite park on the coast), which is just at the northern end of Cannon Beach and went for a short hike before the skies opened up and left us wanting our car and something dry and warm.

Upon arriving home, I found tons of comments for my contest and the Schrodinger Cube Bag in my mail slot. The observant among you might have noticed the yarn in the bag. I'll wait while you scroll up and see if you see it.........................................

................ What!?? you did not see it. Fine I guess I will have to show you. I got it monday morning, not with the bag. That would have been nice but I don't know Jen that well. I just love her box bags. This brings me to the total of 3. Oh and one more thing before I share about the yarn. If you are my monkey pal and don't have a bag for me (not that you to), but she has a monkey cube on her site. Now run not walk over there and see it. Isn't it lovely and classy? Ok I will stop being pushy with the bags, I still want to buy them for myself and not make her always be out of stock.

Now the yarn is sock yarn. Well what else would it be. I don't have friends that are so generous that they would give me a sweaters worth of nice yarn. No but my walking buddy whom I taught to knit, got me a skein of Mountain Colors Bearfoot. I gave away my only skein in my blogiversary so I was waiting on a cool color to show up at our LYS. My friend got me this wild one called Firestorm. I think there is almost every color in it. so lovely. What Huh you want to see it? Oh right why else would you read me. Ok yarn Prn for ya'll to enjoy. Hmmm.... just a moment, I seem to have not uploaded it to the web.

Ahhh there much better. Now don't forget to enter the contest if you haven't yet.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Invernal by Aslantrends
4.75 sts/inch on US 7s
50% Angora Rabbit, 25% Merino, 25% Nylon
295 yards, Color 162

This swatch is so subtle. I think it is like my grumpy bunny. It wins you over with its soft fuzzy nature even though you suspect it might grouch at you for knitting something unexpected from it. The swatch worked up smaller than recommended. It was supposed to be 4.5 sts/inch. Of course the likelihood of knitting this up into a stockinette garment is slim. I would roast especially here in the mild mannered NW. Of course if I lived in the lakes region of the US, I would most likely have wanted a fully angora sweater. It would have made me super toasty and I would survive the huge snow drifts that occurred this year. The yarn is fuzzy and soft on my face, neck, and other sensitive bits. As of yet, I don't know about the wear and pill factor.

This is a yarn I would for sure use. Something lacy but simple to allow the yarn to shine.

Yarn Blessings

When you come home to this much yarn on your front door and in your suitcase, is your trip a success? I picked up a few yarns while I was away. Some are for gifts, some are for swatching, some are for me. There is some stainless steel yarn hiding out in there waiting for me to start a project that will probably bore me to tears but a Kush Kush scarf is so fun to play with I can't resist. I also had a few orders and a few prizes and a sock club package arrive.

It is an over abundance of yarn. And I keep winning stuff. The prize I got while away was from the plucky knitter. She specially dyed yarn for me from a contest winning. It is the moss green in the lower right hand corner of the photo. Just yesterday I discovered that I had won prizes from Malabrigo March. I get to have the coveted Malabrigo sock yarn that is not yet available. What did I do to deserve all this? and yet another prize was slapped on my full plater last night as I was checking blogs one last time. I won a book from our local knitting blog from area newspaper. Part of me does not want to enter anything else but just maybe something will come my way again.

Look for a contest this weekend as I start some festivities. What festivities pray tell are these? Well if you have not been reading closely then you will have to wait and see. I do know there will be some sort of participation and these prizes will be good. I have been blessed with a bit of yarn lately.

Thursday - Yarn Tastings

Seduce by Berroco
5sts/inch on US 7s
47% Rayon, 25% Linen, 17% Silk, 11% Nylon
100 yards, Color: 4448

I wanted to love this yarn. It was so slinky and slippery. It is stated to be a worsted weight yarn. I am not too thrilled at how open the swatch is in stockinette. If I had my yarn I would have swatched a lace pattern. I think a lace stole or shawl would be lovely in this yarn. It is just not a garment yarn for me. Norah designed a garment in this yarn. It is lovely and looks great on all body shapes. I just don't know if this is something I would knit at this gauge.

For all you lace lovers, go search out this yarn for drapy lovely shawls that will glisten in the firelight. It blocks beautifully.

Thursday - yarn tasting

Tsumugi Silk Combo (A-111) by Habu
5 st/ inch on US 7s
100% silk
156 yards, color: HA1

I was really hoping to love this yarn. I love Habu yarns. You don't see many here on this blog because I primarily weave with them and have not done much recently. This yarn made me swoon in the small little skein but upon casting on it was tight and uncomfortable. I thought oh it just has sizing on it. Wait till it washes up, it will be breathtaking. Nope not a bit. I could knit a shape with it and then mold it about a frame work. I think this yarn will do better in the weaving world with its cousin A-1 Tsumugi Silk. I have a few skeins of A-1 and hoped for better results. Well maybe A-1 will need to come out of hiding but A-111 was sadly lacking in what I look for in a knitting yarn. It had everything I hope for in a weaving yarn.

PS3: Fire - yarn aquisition

I took this lovely skein of yarn for a walk this morning. I saw this bright picnic table in the distance and felt it was the perfect back drop to the firey orange. I am thinking of coming up with a one skein firey project to make this into. Part of my plan is to create a project per segment of Project Spectrum.

This bit of malabrigo was acquired in an avalanche of malabrigo that I stumbled into and spent my Christmas money on. My buddy and I hung out in Portland on Saturday. Since we were snagging the max at Lloyd center to head downtown, I convinced her to make a stop at Twisted. It was great. She was so great and started pulling yarn out that she liked to show me and she was stunned at how nice the yarns feel and how pretty they are in the skein. I think I smell a new knitter.

The new yarn that arrived is below in the slide show:

So far I have not really decided what I want to do. My Pomatomus sock for a secret pal is in the fire arena but I don't know if it counts since I won't show the colors till late March.

The only other thing to arrive this weekend was a nice present from my mitten swap pal. She sent me wristies to keep my cold hands a bit warmer while I am knitting and doing computer work.

Blogiversary

I seem to have missed my anniversary to knit blogging by a full week. I noticed that I missed it when I went searching for my first post while in Spo Vegas. Instead I thought I would celebrate my one year and one week anniversary. And to celebrate I have some yarn to give away. I seem to have amassed a large collection of sock yarn this year. So I will be sharing some with all of you.

These yarns are ones that can be found at my LYS - La Favorites. I decided that I would start going to the knit groups as much as I could this year so that I would have more in person contact with knitters. I went to my first meeting on Tuesday it was great.

Leave a comment and you will be entered into the prize box. I will be drawing names on MLK day and sending it out after I get the winner's address.

Weekend Wrap-up

Finally I have time when my computer is willing to be online. Yes I have a wee computer problem were my computer has an allergic reaction of too much time on the internet and shuts down. A solution will be coming later this week. This is probably why the "Big Silver" is working normally, it is scared of the sexy young thing that is winging its way here from Dell. I had about given up on this hunk of metal that I built my first new years with churchable, so I logged on to find myself a laptop with my specs at a decent price on Thanksgiving evening.

I have been busy. I have been documenting my time with photos but whenever I log on and sit down to edit photos and upload photos, things crash and so thus I have bided my time.

I attended the PDX blogger Holiday Knit-a-thon. It was really fun to meet everyone and catch up with other. Here is a photo to prove I was there. We met at Gino's which is owned by one of our members. Thanks again Deb.

I knit on my Tree Jacket while I was there. I am knitting it along with the Sexy Knitters Club. I had gotten to the end of the garter stitch section that day. Someone took a photo of me with it on and the neck around my face, but so far no one is fessing up. Since then I have taken pics for WIP Wednesday, which had a computer crash while I was uploading pics and editing them. And I finished it on Saturday night at church. It is currently blocking its little heart out. This is were I was on Wednesday.

We also held a yarn swap at the knit-a-thon. I got 4 skeins of yarn. Only 3 are shown below because, the other one was a simple skein of TOFUtsies that I took pity on and brought home.

Interlacements Peru

Handspun by Bobbi

I also have been working on socks for my Brother-in-law and his two boys for Christmas.

I also purchased my first skein of Malabrigo. I love the color. I hope ya'll like this sexy yarn photo. If you would like more, click on the pic and there are more on flickr.

My monkey pal flaked on me. Amazingly the angels jumped on it and the packages pummeled my front door the week of Thanksgiving.

I received a little monkey name Hoodwinked, which I thought was so aptly named since I missed out on getting a proper package. The socks were a lovely color of Koigu but they did not fit me, they fit churchable.

The last bits that I have to show you are my FOs for the week. I actually spent quite a bit of time in front of my sewing machine.

First up: A simple black A-line skirt

This is a simple skirt that I drafted from my measurements with a invisible side zipper and a faced waist. I don't know what the fabric is but it did not melt at the almost cotton heat setting. Most of my fabric stash is unmarked except that each box has a color grouping.

Second: Reversible Place mats

These are to be given to the bride and groom of the wedding we attended in Arizona. The reason we went on a big road trip to Utah and beyond. They were going to be folding a 1,000 cranes for their wedding, so I gathered inspiration from this. The fabric is quilting cotton from the local quilt store. Simple no pattern place mats.

Boxed and ready to go

Spread out. The other side of all the place mats is the color of the napkin.

Third: Pillows for a friend

Click on the photo to read the details.

OFFF, yarn, and stuff.

Well folks, see that nice lovely pie. Churchable made it for me, on tuesday. I am aware that it is now officially Thursday. I will eat some of it before I collapse in bed tonight. I have decided to call that little pie, my "I have reached and made my first deadline" pie.

Yes folks. I am done. I can start blogging about everything I am knitting. Well ok almost everything. It is the season for Christmas knitting.

Larissa of Stitchmarker

Well in addition to trying to finish my designs on time, I went to OFFF (Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival in Canby, OR). I had a great time. My fellow PDX bloggers have done a better job at posting about what they have done and what we did. Check out Cindy's post. I was her car mate on this trip. (there are more pictures that I just dumped into flickr so click on the pic of Larissa and look around)

click on the pic and it will take you to a slideshow of the yarn.

I was good this month and saved my yarn allowance till the end of the month. I got several hanks of sock yarn. I really wanted semi-solid colors. I got so many.

Well in addition to all this I got my first SP package for SP11. It was awesome. I would love to gush more but me tired. I added the link to the slide show of the stuff. I must say that the yarn is Bamboo. So great.

Now I must apologize for being such a lame blogger, but I am tired. I have been pushing myself this week to finish not just because of my deadline but because I am leaving on vacation bright and early tomorrow. We are headed south through California to Arizona for a family wedding. I hope it turns out well. Our RSVP got lost and they just found out we were coming on Tuesday. From there we are headed North to the National Parks of the area. We will be camping and hiking in the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park to name a few. We will be coming home via Salt Lake and Boise. If you know of good yarn shops, let me know in the comments.

Don't expect me to poke my head up before the 8th of October. I will be adding comments as I get them when I have computer access. Have a great first week of Socktober.

WIP Wednesday - the insomniac edition

Well one of the wonderful side effects of coming down off the hormones is that I am an insomniac one week out of the month. Yeah. Unfortunately, I don't do work knitting because i am trying to calm and relaxed as I knit so that I will fall asleep.

I would like to say that the finishitis is still going strong. I finished the sweater. Si your present is done. Ha ok now I must knit the other sweater, the hat, and the pair of socks that I have in the queue for Christmas. Actually my finisitis is so strong it won't let me cast on more projects, except for the baby presents that are for babies that were born earlier this month. I really want to cast something on but I have to finish my work project and my monkey swap socks. Well of the things that I just mentioned only one of them can be blogged about so. Let me flash what I have done on my second monkey sock.

Today when I received my new knit picks harmony needles. I had to cast on with my new sharp non-bendy size 0 DPNs. I grabbed the sock yarn I bought for a specific baby that was supposed to be born around a football game played in these colors. In this house they are rival colors, but as Anna says our colors are clown colored.

I am proud of myself. I learned 2 new techniques with these wee little socks. I did Judy's Magic Cast-on and EZ sewn bind-off. Man why have I not been doing this. They were both so easy. I also think I have got my short row heel down perfectly. This little guy should qualify for SockDown a KAL on Ravelry.

Next up are the projects that are lining up on my desk and grabbing needles. They are impatient little buggers. They started fighting over the new needles as soon as I laid them down. Bad Yarn. You will have your turn.

Here they are in no particular order, Give me your opinion on what I should start:

Knitpick's Gloss with Knitpick's fixed Harmony needles for Endless Paper Mitts

Mystery Sock(not a ravelry link) for SockDown a KAL on Ravelry for Sock Knitters Anonymous lead by our own Fyberduck.

Brother-in-law Camo socks for Christmas. Pattern unknown. Just has to be non-fancy. He is a basic sort of guy, but he asked for camo socks. Pray these socks pool. Stripes would be bad.

Ribbon Yarn. About 1 lb. Unknown source. This will be the RCC that was part of last Sexy Knitter's Club. It should be done but well I have a job knitting.

This weekend - a race, yarn, contests and FOs

Man I just can't get my head in the game. I am super groggy and I know I am getting enough sleep, exercise and food. People keep asking me if I am pregnant since baby's take away brain power. I can tell all you people to stop hoping at least this month. I know I am not with child. I also don't hope to be, but I do know the drs are messing with my hormones and it is murder. So all this to say if I seem to ramble and have flat wit this time around that is the unknown reason. It is hard to be on your toes when you want to fall flat on your face, but when I try to nap all I want to do is twiddle my thumbs. Grrr. If you are looking for the FOs scroll down but don't miss the yarn and the contests on the way down.

Oh you want to know about the yarn and the FO. Well first I want to talk about churchable's weekend. When I met my man, he was training for this race. No he did not start training 3 years early. He ran the Hood 2 Coast relay in 2004 and this year. The event happened this weekend. His team has consisted of 6 of the same guys for the 3 times they have raced. He stopped running after the race in 2004. Last fall the guys got together and decided to race this summer. Churchable was a little apprehensive since he stopped running because he hurt. Well my man ran and he ran well and he said that he felt better after running this year than in 2004. Yeah. He is going to continue running. This makes me happy since he was a cross-country runner in high school in Spokane. He enjoys running. I am proud of my boy.

Back row: Cindy, Sarah, Maia, Judy
Front row: Fyberduck, Moirae, Me

Now onto the interesting things. While my honey ran his heart out, I went on a sock hop. Ok it was a sock yarn crawl but I like sock hop better. Fyberduck put this grand adventure together over on Ravelry. A small portion of us PDX bloggers got together and partied it up. Ok we sat, we knitted, we squeezed yarn, we ate yummies, and we bought yarn.

The following was our plan:

Abundant Yarn & Dyeworks from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm,
The Yarn Garden from 1:30 - 2:00 pm,
Twisted from 2:15 - 3:00 pm,
Knit/ Purl from 3:15 - 4:00 pm,
The Farmhouse Knit Shop from 4:30 - 5:00 pm

Kathy showing us her muslin and its oddities, Cindy bought a bracelet with Rodger's assistance, Judy and our newest knitter (please forgive my brain forgetfulness) watched.

Well I met up with Judy and Cindy and we rode together. It was nice and quiet and filled with conversation since we rode in Judy's Prius. We ended up being the first to arrive at Abundant Yarn except Rodger but he was working of course. It was a very leisurely stay at Abundant. We made ourselves quite at home in the cafe, ordering lunches and making sure there were no more seats available. We were joined by a few others at the cafe for just this stop. Kathy came a de-stressed a little after another hard week. She was knitting away on a cute little EZ February Baby Jacket. We had another out of state couple tag along for the first stop and to Pix.

Since it was Judy's bday, we had to celebrate with chocolaty goodness. She was most decidedly happy to have a low key birthday but to enjoy the yarn.

On we hopped through the Yarn Garden, since we were behind schedule we did not stay long.

Look at that lovely wall of sock yarn. Some of it had just arrived.

Then onto the store that I knew would be my downfall. Oh why did I come? I knew that indie dyers would be hard for me to resist. but now I have a new favorite store. Twisted.

I ended up buying 3 skeins of yarn. 2 count as Christmas presents since my BIL asked rather offhand if I had ever seen camo colored sock yarn. Hmmm..... I think someone wants something. Hopefully I am right and these will be perfect. The other I would not even let Cindy take from my hand to investigate further. I had it by a death grip.

Now I rarely have to have a yarn, but this one just did me in. The colors were so soothing and calm, just what I wanted. Too bad I have too many socks on the needles and not enough time.

Well we all pried ourselves away from the wall of yarn, most spending a bit more than we intended. I have to say the gals at Twisted know their business. Then we trooped down to the home of Shibui (aka Knit/Purl). We were greeted at the door with a lovely sign and cookies. They offered us ice tea and water. I some how missed the tea, but oh well. The colors in this shop glow.

After this Judy dropped Cindy and I off at our cars, Cindy and Judy headed off to Farmhouse. I personally love farmhouse knit shop but I had been there just a week before and was feeling the need to head home. One of our dogs was feeling ill when I left home in the morning. She is better now, she had re-sprained her tail again. I don't know how she does it but I gave her the pain meds from the last time she did this.

Since i have little luck of winning contests on their blogs, I will send my lucky readers to a few that I have run across this week. The first is at Golden Purl, she asks that you give her your favorite date (month and day) and if it matches hers she will send you a treat. Mine of course was my 25th birthday (April 26th) when I realized that I needed to go out with this guy named churchable that I had been talking to online. The second is at Extravayarnza, tell her how you cheer up during the long gray days. The third and final is at schrodinger knits, she simply asks you to comment and she can bless you after all the good luck she has been having at winning contests.

Ok finally we have the FOs

The Orange Goddess
Pattern: Pale Green Top #13 from Rebecca #12
Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece color Harvest Orange (I don't think this is an active colot)
Needles: US8 (I think)
Thoughts: I love this pattern. Super simple. Now I did not make any mods, but I should have. I made the straps too long originally and so it sat in my mending basket waiting for the simple task of strap shortening. I think the bust detailing is too wide for my frame. I would measure it and make it more centered, then I probably could wear the shirt alone. I even like the rolled hem on this one (I normally change them all to garter st)

Now my other FO was less knitting and more fiber. Here is my first non knitting FO in months. I hope I have some in October when my friend CareBear visits.

This was some fabric that I had indigo dyed and then I sewed it up on my serger. I gifted it to the wonderful Judy on her birthday. It is some of my design collection that I tried to sell before I gave up and pursued my knitting.