ANGORA RABBITS NEED HOMES
The state of Colorado confiscated 187 rabbits, most of them Angoras with a few Satins, and are desperate for help. They found homes for all but 57 of the rabbits. If you can take in an angora rabbit or if you know of a fiber person who may be able to take one or two, please contact the head of the Colorado House Rabbit Society, Nancy La Roche ASAP, at co-hrs@comcast.net . This is all I know currently but I do believe their network of volunteers can transport some rabbits outside the state. Thanks!
Anne surprised me with this lovely wool mohair blend. The color is a brighter turquoise than it is scanning. For some reason my scanner can't handle turquoise! It was such a thoughtful and generous gift and will become some socks some day. Thanks Anne! I've also included a photo of some handspun I made with it on my new Woolly Designs production spindle.
The state of Colorado confiscated 187 rabbits, most of them Angoras with a few Satins, and are desperate for help. They found homes for all but 57 of the rabbits. If you can take in an angora rabbit or if you know of a fiber person who may be able to take one or two, please contact the head of the Colorado House Rabbit Society, Nancy La Roche ASAP, at co-hrs@comcast.net . This is all I know currently but I do believe their network of volunteers can transport some rabbits outside the state. Thanks!
Anne surprised me with this lovely wool mohair blend. The color is a brighter turquoise than it is scanning. For some reason my scanner can't handle turquoise! It was such a thoughtful and generous gift and will become some socks some day. Thanks Anne! I've also included a photo of some handspun I made with it on my new Woolly Designs production spindle.
I'll show you the completed Turkish socks tomorrow. I didn't get much knitting done this weekend - it snowed both days and DH has been hanging around more than usual, challenging me to many games of Scrabble.
I have some links for you. HERE and HERE you can find two excellent articles on how to help the homeless and both mention the need for warm knitted accessories in winter. If you find yourself with extra handknit items, consider looking HERE or HERE to locate a homeless shelter near you. It appears most shelters are church-based and receive little or no government funding. This kind of knitting is perfect for me - because the knitted items won't be sold I can knit someone else's pattern instead of designing my own stuff. Plus I don't have to worry about sizing or colors and can just enjoy knitting projects that interest me.
Chery has managed to finish yet another beautiful Dale sweater. It seems like it was only a day ago she finished her last one. Wow! And Sue has completed her first stranded color knitting project - a beautiful pair of Norwegian mittens. I only wish my first stranded color knitting project looked so good!
I added two new reviews of Stranded Color Knitting to the booklet's main page at http://home.earthlink.net/~nanetteblanchard/id6.html .
HERE's a link for a beautiful pattern for pink ribbon breast cancer awareness socks. These may go in the queue as I have some pink sock yarn in the stash.
And perhaps it is all our snow but THIS Christmas baking site just turns me on completely.
I have some links for you. HERE and HERE you can find two excellent articles on how to help the homeless and both mention the need for warm knitted accessories in winter. If you find yourself with extra handknit items, consider looking HERE or HERE to locate a homeless shelter near you. It appears most shelters are church-based and receive little or no government funding. This kind of knitting is perfect for me - because the knitted items won't be sold I can knit someone else's pattern instead of designing my own stuff. Plus I don't have to worry about sizing or colors and can just enjoy knitting projects that interest me.
Chery has managed to finish yet another beautiful Dale sweater. It seems like it was only a day ago she finished her last one. Wow! And Sue has completed her first stranded color knitting project - a beautiful pair of Norwegian mittens. I only wish my first stranded color knitting project looked so good!
I added two new reviews of Stranded Color Knitting to the booklet's main page at http://home.earthlink.net/~nanetteblanchard/id6.html .
HERE's a link for a beautiful pattern for pink ribbon breast cancer awareness socks. These may go in the queue as I have some pink sock yarn in the stash.
And perhaps it is all our snow but THIS Christmas baking site just turns me on completely.
After knitting for what seemed like forever, here are Liidia's Gloves from Nancy Bush's Folk Knitting in Estonia. I used some vintage Nylamb yarn (a baby fingering weight yarn that was discontinued years ago) and size 0 dpns. I liked how you do the double wick decreases (i.e., decrease every row) with a different color yarn each row. I'll have to remember that because I like how it looks. I used a different 2-strand cast on for these instead of her braid cast on.
These gloves are going to be added to a pile of stuff to donate to the homeless shelter but first I hope to finish a pair of 6 color socks from Anna Zilboorg's Fancy Feet to include in the box. Tune in on Sunday to see if I manage to finish them in time.
I was going to show you what I do to choose the colors of a project in proper proportion but that will have to wait. I recently realized I'd planned to finish Liidia's gloves by tomorrow and I'm only on the first finger of the second glove. Yikes!
I know I don't NEED to finish these gloves by tomorrow but sometimes I think my deadlines spur me on. Otherwise this house would be full of incomplete and unfinished projects. I hope to finish them and show them here by late tomorrow evening. Here's a close-up of the glove cuff. I think the mint green section was an unsuccessful color choice but it doesn't look as noticeable when you see the complete glove.
I know I don't NEED to finish these gloves by tomorrow but sometimes I think my deadlines spur me on. Otherwise this house would be full of incomplete and unfinished projects. I hope to finish them and show them here by late tomorrow evening. Here's a close-up of the glove cuff. I think the mint green section was an unsuccessful color choice but it doesn't look as noticeable when you see the complete glove.
Last weekend I managed to finally organize my yarn. I took it out of the Rubbermaid containers and displayed it in some wire shelving units. It is nice to have the yarn out where I can see it all and I feel less of a need to buy more yarn seeing it all displayed. The wire units came in black and white and were quite inexpensive at Target.
(Right after purchasing them I found out that Target has decided not to allow the Salvation Army bell-ringers in front of their store this season as a result of many other charities wanting the some privilege. While I've read that Target donates quite generously to community charities, the newspaper reports are saying this decision may net a loss of 9 million in donations for the Salvation Army this holiday season and this report says the trend may be toward the disappearance of the bell-ringers completely. sigh )
Today's photo shows Jack the cat playing with a feather. For some reason he always looks possessed in these photos.
(Right after purchasing them I found out that Target has decided not to allow the Salvation Army bell-ringers in front of their store this season as a result of many other charities wanting the some privilege. While I've read that Target donates quite generously to community charities, the newspaper reports are saying this decision may net a loss of 9 million in donations for the Salvation Army this holiday season and this report says the trend may be toward the disappearance of the bell-ringers completely. sigh )
Today's photo shows Jack the cat playing with a feather. For some reason he always looks possessed in these photos.
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