First is the cowl I finished for my son’s mother-in-law for Christmas. She and I exchange gifts every year and last year I made her a headband so her ears would be warm when she went walking and I wanted the cowl to match. I used the dandelion design from the headband pattern and designed where to put it, how many stitches to make the cowl, how many stitches before starting each pattern and between so the pattern ended up right at the end and staggering them. I’m not really a math person so it always takes me a while to design where to put designs, so I don’t do them very often. I had to frog this several times until I got the count and placement right.
The bottom picture is a package from Fiber Love Diary on YouTube. She gets a spinning package from Paradise Fibers free for their Fiber of the month club to show to her followers and then she buys one to give away. I won the drawing this month from last month’s package, woo hoo!! It was a nice one. I really like the fiber that Paradise Fibers sells. For fiber there were 3 2oz bags of their new chunky multi merino blends (and the card shows all the colors that they have), 1 oz of autumnal chunky merino blend and a sample of their whitest white merino (most “white” wool tends to be a little on the creamy color scale), plus a purple bent nose darning needle, 3 harvest inspired progress keepers, a stash tea and a sticker of their ewe mascot. The fiber colors are very pretty. Lots of merino to spin and I can always use another darning needle for weaving in the ends of my knitting.
I’ve started another hat for my son in law, the one I made him is just a tad tight. I’ll post progress as I go.
My fiber optic Christmas tree quit working so I had to order a new one, I bought it used in 2005, so I can’t complain, it lasted a long time. I wasn’t sure they still made fiber optic Christmas trees but happily they do!!!
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Your cowl came out beautifully! I am sure she will love it 😉
What a fantastic win! So many pretty colors and possibilities – do keep us up to date on what you create with them!
Sorry about your tree – I’m happy you were able to replace it. I hope the new ones serves you well for years to come ❤
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Had to order it, will put a picture up when it comes in. 🙂
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Very pretty cowl. You say you aren’t good with math, but you figured it out beautifully. What a generous give away to win! I appreciate when podcasters share the many freebies they receive.
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I enjoy sharing the bloggers I listen to and all the cool things they make and do for their followers, thinking someone else might like to follow them and enjoy their knowledge on spinning or knitting :). I usually share the things I buy incase someone else was interested in them so they can see them and my take on them. I rarely win the give a way as it’s the luck of the draw and she has many followers, and I don’t usually draw aces :P, so this was such a surprise to me and fun to win :).
LOL I had to frog it down to the top of the first pattern twice on the cowl to get the math correct, finally had to just see where the middle was between the two dandelions below it, and make the first stitch and then count to the next place and write that number of stitches down till I memorized it. If I was good at math or could read charts it would have been much easier, but….lol, I’m not :P. I have a hard time with charts and counting vertical rows in my knitting (why I really like the counting beads on the stitch marker, because my eyes won’t track well, they seem to easily loose or jump off of what I am looking at on things crowded in rows of things (shapes and symbols), but lol, letters seem to be fine for reading. But we tend to work around our issues and make things work anyway :).
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I admire your “stick-to-it” attitude.
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Beautiful cowl!! It will be an wonderful present. WOW, what a great giveaway win. Very lucky.
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Thanks I was very surprised and excited!
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You’re so lucky, what an amazing prize!
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I was fun to win one 🙂
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Ooh look at all the colors!! Congratulations on the win–I’m sure the yarn that you’ll make from these will actually look better than how I’m imagining it. 🙂
And amazing job on the cowl–your design turned out perfect, and it must be so satisfying to see it turn out so good after all that effort.
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Thank you, I was so excited to get the spinning fiber! I was pleased with the cowl after fixing it several times to get the adjustment of where the placements went, it’s a math thing and I’m not good at math lol, so I don’t do a lot of my own designs.
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