No tea pot! I went to a different branch of the same chain store I saw tea pots Saturday--they have NONE! Will keep looking. Couldn't find yarn I liked, either. Guess I will have to stash dive. No yarn stores around me were open on Sunday. Taking today off but still unlikely to find yarn around here...Need to go back into the mountains.
Waiting to rejoin
Wild For Tea Cosies. In the wait for my secret handshake info, here is a decidedly UNwild tea cosy I made for a lavender I-pot. This poor thing needs something to shake up its sedate, boring life. I will work on some kind of flower or something. In case you don't know, the I-pot holds enough tea for a mug or about 2 and a half teacups full. It is quite cute when unsweatered.
I think the yarn is leftover SWTC bamboo. I always write down patterns I'm inventing and then promptly lose the paper. I am sure I have run across the paper for this pattern and said to myself, "What is THIS? Oh, well, can't remember, better throw it out..." I do remember not casting off all the stitches, just the spout. Then the others went on a cord that looked like it matched the pot. Looks weirdly out of place so I will change it when I get the chance. Maybe something more like the cosy itself.
What was in that box? Yarn, of course. I plan to give those Lantern Moons a real work out. Unbelievable that the top picture is of two balls of yarn in the same colorway: Sunset, by Liberty Wool. Dedicated to hats. Next, some 8 ply I picked up the other day in Ellijay at STRINGS and STITCHES. I had thought to make a hat for a young lady but I am not sure yet. I will have to think about it.
Also, more hat yarn from Webs. I might be better off using the yellow for a young lady. It is Cashmerino and delightful.
I do NOT hate them. I am going to keep them and not frog them. They are a little loose probably because I carried the rib pattern all the way around from the toe up. Also, next time I will use size 3 needles or possibly 2 if I use Fiesta Baby Boom again. The yarn is wonderfully squishy. It takes the better part of 2 skeins, so it is pricey. Costs less at LOOPY EWE than at WEBS.
I had 2 Bali Batik jelly rolls in near similar colors and I pieced them, cut them, framed the strips and made rectangular blocks. The color behind is what I chose for the backing. I am considering making it into a duvet. After I find it again. I usually write on the outsides of boxes what is inside, but we recycled all of our moving boxes. Some of my yarn is in boxes marked "picture frames".
Spun until we drove out of the country to the city for lunch (3-4 hours) then came back and spun another couple of hours:
Ended the day like this:
I can not believe that there is still half of the first of these twin balls left. I DO like the irony, a PEN for scale with the PENCIL roving.
