Swatch

Last fall I acquired 5 skeins of, very delicious and discontinued Worsted Ware (a superwash merino that is as the name suggests worsted weight) at the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Barn sale, I especially love the darker of the blueish ones.



I've been wrestling with patterns trying to decide what to make them into for the last year, and had just started a cabled scarf with it for a test knit. Unfortunately however my cousin who also got a skein of the Worsted Ware, didn't have as much trouble and used it to make a very cute bolero for her extremely cute daughter...

It fulled the first time it was washed, in fact she said it felted better than the Twisted, which is actually intended for fulling.

So I frogged the scarf and, took about 2 grams off each of the skeins, and knit them up into a swatch strip(something I never do) on needles a size larger than recommended. I wanted to make sure that it had plenty of room to full if it was so inclined. When I was knitting it I noticed was that the pale blue is substantially heavier than the other others, I think it may actually be a bulky.

After I'd rubbed, yanked, and swished it around in some very hot Dawny water, I had my results.



While I did get at least a little fuzzing on all of them, due to the extreme mistreatment the colors had endured, the green and pale blue are only two that went for it completely.

Oregon Flock and Fiber 2009

Well I forgot to take my camera this year, so I don't really have any pictures, I have one or two from my phone, but I'm not real sure on the quality, I might load them on here later though. Anyhow it was wonderful, I got to wander through the barns and play with the bunnies.

I also got some awesome yarn, though I really tried to restrain myself as Sock Summit was only a month and a half ago, and my yarn bin is still over flowing.



These are the delectable skeins of wonderfulness that I picked up from the Blue Moon Fiber Arts booth. On the right are STR medium weight mill ends so the colorways are my best guess, the top one I think is Korppi, Autumn, ST-2, and Froggin. The center purple one is a Seduction Rare Gem, and beside that BFL Sport in Downpour(this one is also a guess because it's not labeled).

After Blue Moon I only had enough left to pick up these beauties from Frog Creek Fibers.



The skein on top is Ebullient in the Blue Diablo XL colorway, the lower skein is Bamboo Blend in the Blue Bonnet colorway.

I really wanted some of the yarns from Abstract Fiber but I resisted. At some point in time though the Black Opal, Manzanita, Laurelhurst, and Sweet Pea colorways will be mine.

I'm also seriously considering camping out at the fair grounds next year I think it would be fun to take one of the workshops, and just kind of hang out at the festival for the weekend. I may even wander around Canby and it's not that far from Willsonville or Woodburn for that matter if I felt like getting in some non-knitting shopping.