I’ve chosen my travel projects. I’ve got a ball of Opal and the pattern for Pomatomus. In my head I carry the basic sock pattern. Anything goes. I also wound up two balls of silk in my Verdigris colorway. 400 yds are plenty to start a shawl, if I need more (like I’ll get THAT far), it’ll have to wait until I get back. I’m still thinking the Adagio shawl. As I wound the balls, (you know that you can NOT wind silk into a decent ball on a ball winder, right?) I used the sewn method of the Russain join to eliminate all the tied ends in each skein. Perfect. One continuous strand of yarn. I’ll Russian join the yarn from each skein to the next as I change them, too. All it took was a large sewing needle. What a great, simple method. I worried over it up and until I did the first one.
That’s it for now. See you along the way.
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Thr Russian join is a great discovery, isn’t it? Have fun! Post a ton of pics for those of us stranded in non Sheep and Wool parts of the country!
That color is simply gorgeous. And will make a fabulous shawl for you!
have a blast, i wish i was going!
Luscious silk! You’ll have to show me the Russian join. See you soon.
Your Vine Lace Cardigan looks amazing! I love that color; it’s one of my favorites.
Gorgeous yarn!
I hope to see you at the Maryland S&W. I’m kinda shy and didn’t get to post a picture of my big pancake face on my blog, but I should be wearing my mocha Orangina and on the lookout for the beautiful woman wearing a Vine Lace cardigan.
Hope to see ya there!
Thanks for mentioning the Russian join, which I’ll need to use on a recent shawl! Love your site, enjoy the weekend!
I love the green yarn! I haven’t given up on my lovely orange scarf, I just hit my first knot and haven’t had a chance to really learn how to do that Russian join, but I am going to give it a try this weekend 😉
Yummy, pretty silk. Anything knit in silk will always come out beautiful. I haven’t ever tried the Russian join but I will, now. I usually just drop the old yarn and continue knitting with the new, but that takes some weaving in ends, and I haven’t enough patience…
Judy, that colorway is absolutely stunning. I didn’t see your knitting over the weekend (or if I did I was woolblind and have forgotten). Did you start the shawl?
Where is that gorgeous silk from!?!?!?! The color and glow are simply stunning!