When Ginny stopped hosting the popular Yarn Along I thought, "Well, I can still post on Wednesdays and use that as a record of progress." A couple of my favorite Yarn Along-ers tried that as well. It just wasn't the same. I'm so glad the Yarn Along is back even if it looks like it's just monthly now. It's a lot of fun and I made several new friends through this group and picked up quite a few good book tips as well.
For this week's Yarn Along post I'm sharing some Christmas gift knitting. Not knitting I'm doing to gift, but knitting gifts given to me ;-). This Voe hat is a kit from Brooklyn Tweed. I've been really wanting to try some of their yarn not only because it's so beautifully marketed, but also because it's American made yarn from American sheep. Nice!
I got to learn a new cast on (German) and a new ribbing. I think the ribbing is called mistake ribbing. I. Hate. Knitting. Ribbing. Getting to straight knit every other row was a huge morale booster :-D. I may never knit un-mistake ribbing again!
Is this not the most charming project bag ever?
With the most charming logo and tag to boot? I just love everything about this project so far :-).
And it was nice to see the sheep venture out for a bit this afternoon. A brief foray near 30 degrees!
My book this week (I'm just going to keep repeating that to myself ;-) is another favorite Christmas gift. Sheep-O! The story of the worlds fastest shearers. I'd link to it but it's so old it doesn't even show up on Amazon's used books. Maybe if I checked Amazon Australia. It's fascinating!
I've also listened to a ton of good audio books that I've been thinking for months how fun they'd be to share. I'll try to put together a list for my next week's Yarn Along post.
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