This last weekend, my mom came to town to help me move to my summer housing. We got to go down to a sheep and wool festival in Wooster, Ohio, and hang out with a bunch of yarn and this cute little dude. Alpacas look pretty funny when they're shaved and their heads aren't - helmet head in the truest sense of the phrase.
We also got over to
Fine Points in Cleveland, where I picked up two cones of Habu silk/stainless steel and this gorgeous Claudia Handpainted sock yarn, seen here with a cup of iced coffee from
Slow Train Cafe, Oberlin's newest addition to the restaurant/cafe scene. The colorway is Mountain Sky. I love Claudia sock yarn - it knits up beautifully and is hard-wearing to boot. I've also made some major progress on Crown Prince, which I cast on a little less than two weeks ago now.
This project is a really fun knit. I've stopped thinking of nupp rows as a nuisance, since all the rows are nupp rows, and are actually pretty fun! I love the way the nupps make the pattern stand out, and I think this one is going to block out to be crazily beautiful. I'm already scheming my next project from Knitted Lace of Estonia...
This last weekend, my mom came to town to help me move to my summer housing. We got to go down to a sheep and wool festival in Wooster, Ohio, and hang out with a bunch of yarn and this cute little dude. Alpacas look pretty funny when they're shaved and their heads aren't - helmet head in the truest sense of the phrase.
We also got over to Fine Points in Cleveland, where I picked up two cones of Habu silk/stainless steel and this gorgeous Claudia Handpainted sock yarn, seen here with a cup of iced coffee from Slow Train Cafe, Oberlin's newest addition to the restaurant/cafe scene. The colorway is Mountain Sky. I love Claudia sock yarn - it knits up beautifully and is hard-wearing to boot. I've also made some major progress on Crown Prince, which I cast on a little less than two weeks ago now.
This project is a really fun knit. I've stopped thinking of nupp rows as a nuisance, since all the rows are nupp rows, and are actually pretty fun! I love the way the nupps make the pattern stand out, and I think this one is going to block out to be crazily beautiful. I'm already scheming my next project from Knitted Lace of Estonia...
I wonder, how did you come by the screen name kirin lemon? It's a pretty obscure drink, even in japan. Have you had it?!
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Re: Anonymous
ReplyDeleteI spent time in Japan when I was 16, and my brother really liked Kirin Lemon and would try to find it in vending machines and restaurants whenever we went out. I picked it up as an internet name after I came home because I have such fond memories of Japan.
Re: bdraeger
Hee! I don't know about that - I'm getting distracted by other pretties now... :) I'd love to see your progress!