I feel so lucky; I won a prize from the
Ravelry raffle at Stitches West. I never, ever win drawings. Surprisingly, my name was drawn for one of the prizes from
A Verb for Keeping Warm. While Kristine is a friend of mine, this was a complete, utter surprise and there was no monkey business with the drawing.
Here's my swag.
422 yards of fingering weight of an alpaca/silk blend. This yarn is lush.
This bag has already traveled to Los Angeles loaded down with books!
I've been spinning some of the fiber I bought from A Verb for Keeping Warm at Stitches. This is 2 oz. of merino dyed with cosmos grown by Adrienne and Kristine last year and overdyed with indigo. I think I'm going to knit a shoulder shawl with this.
I started knitting the new Article Pract pattern "Ada" while on vacation. My gut told me that there was a mistake in the stitch marker placement--of course, I ignored myself. I knit almost 10" of the body before I accepted that my gut was right. I ripped it out and started over after I contacted Christina at Article Pract to see if, indeed, the pattern had a mistake. She is posting the errata on the pattern page over at the Article Pract website.
Oh, and I'm knitting it out of the wine colored merino handspun I spun last fall.
Two glorious weeks at the beach in Southern California--a much needed break from my regular routine. I took my daughter down to LA for LA Fashion Week; drove around most of west LA taking her to casting calls.
