Showing posts with label silk yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk yarn. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2026

330 Gallons of Yarn

 This stage of my latest yarn de stash is complete.  I know that you have heard this countless times before. It has not been my biggest de stash of yarn. There was still an epic number of gallons of yarn that left my yarn stash over the past few days. So far it is 11 bags with a total of 330 gallons of yarn leaving the house. I also have an empty 32 quart bin going into the garage. 

If you are interested in acquiring any of this yarn please follow The Old Pueblo Knitting Guild to find out when the yarn sale will be.  Be sure to arrive earlier rather than later for the best selection of yarn.  I know people who drive from out of state just to go to this yarn sale.  Go to Old Pueblo Knitting Guild.org.  There you will find information on what we do as a knitting guild. The charities we support. Find out how you can join. You can even make a donation to help cover the cost of some of our charity work.

In this latest donation for the yarn sale, I have included Aspirational Yarn with projects that I wasn’t sure what I was gonna make with the yarn someday. Only that I loved the yarn. I have also included a lot of size 1,2 and 3 weight yarns because I can no longer work with smaller knitting needles.  It absolutely broke my heart to have to remove from my stash, some beautiful yarns, including silks and silk blends. It is the time of my life to become more pragmatic about what I keep and what I get rid of. I hope the Yarn that is leaving the house finds a really good Knitter or Crocheter to make beautiful projects.

With that being said, my knitting and spinning room is more organized. More useful to me because I know where everything is. And I even put together a few projects with some of my hand spun yarn which are destined to go to another funding raising project for another organization. And I know you will believe that I found a few more UFOs. I have also found projects to tink and make something much better or fix major construction problems. 

Now it is time to work on my current knitting project.  



Thursday, September 19, 2019

It’s All About The Tink

Sometimes when designing a new pattern way outside the stitches per inch on a different size knitting needle things can go terribly wrong very quickly.   I am using U.S. size 10 knitting needles on a fingering weight yarn.  I knew my first guesstimate was off so I doubled the amount of stitches that I cast on.  It looked pretty good until tonight. Let’s just sat after knitting 12 rows I know I am way off.  Not wanting to do the math involved tonight it will wait for tomorrow.  Then I will begin again.  I will also have it finished by the Birthday Celebration at Grandmas Spinning Wheel here in Tucson.  Yes, I will be on hand to help you select the perfect yarn for you.

In other news Debra showed me her latest knitting project. She took my Count1-2-3-4 shawl pattern and cast on 81 stitches for a narrower shawl.  Even better she is knitting it in 100% silk yarn in a sports weight.  The drape on the shawl is fantastic.  If you have some spare silk yarn in a sports weight give it a try and post the picture on  Raverly.  P.S. the pattern is on Raverly or your local yarn store.