Playing Hookey
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009I jumped the fence this weekend and went off to see my sister and her daughter. I hope I didn’t inconvenience anyone, but the shop has been so slow – it’s that time of year, I don’t mind! – but it’s a little bit boring and so when they called and asked me to come and play, I did. The boys palled around with their golden retriever cousins and the humans watched DVD’s and got crafty with fabric and boxes and bows. It was fun, and I hope you all had a good time over the long weekend, too.
Look at one of the new things coming for fall:
Big balls of soft and chunky tweed with gorgeous color ranges from Lang Yarns. I can’t wait to see what we can make from it. One ball scarves for sure, but I think maybe 3 balls for a great sweater.
I bought a bunch of fun stuff from Crystal Palace, including Mochi Plus, a sweater-weight version of Mini-Mochi, the sock yarn, for which I also have new colors coming, and some pretty new variegateds of Panda Silk fingering weight, for socks, shawls, and more.
Berroco has some interesting new yarns this year. I bought some more Palace, their very luscious silk & wool which never got out of the back room last year (but sold well nonetheless!) Blackstone Tweed is new and has a nice traditional look, a soft melange of wool, mohair and angora in a somewhat serious range of colors – very nice for this jacket from Oat Couture
which I thought of, but Berroco’s collection for the yarn is very good, too. I also bought a yarn called Sundae. I bought a ton of yarn called Sundae. I hope I really like the yarn called Sundae because I can’t remember a thing about it. Oh well, I’ll get another look at TNNA. Norah Gaughan has two collections out for fall, one of which is her typical kind of theme – nature – and one of which is for men. The men’s collection is great, period. The other – well, if you like her designs, you’ll like this collection. Me, I haven’t quite forgiven her for the mess of a design I knitted from Vol. 1, but I’m giving her another chance. But if I have to rip and re-purpose the yarn just once more, Norah and I are through.
Look at Jennifer Gensemer in her pretty top knit from Laurel cotton from Schaefer Yarns. She said, but this top is old (a couple of years), but I said, baby, the body is new. Jennifer looks so great – she says she gave up Diet Coke and it made all the difference in her eating. I wish I drank it, so I could give it up, too. Darn.
And here is the belle of the blog this week. Meet Emma, Lynda Slovitsky’s granddaughter, modeling a pretty little bolero that Lynda made for her out of Ty-Dy cotton. I love the way she looks in it, don’t you? Shoes, headband – she knows how to dress it up! Lynda did such a great job, modeling this tiny little jacket on the Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Adult Surprise Jacket, which she made for herself last fall. (shown below)
Both have a great fun sense of style, n’est-ce pas?
That’s it! See you soon…
Trish
