Stephen West's Samen

I have messed with my gorgeous line yarn from Claudia all week.  I just did not like the yarn in the pattern that I was trying to use.  So this morning, I spent a bit of time looking for a new idea.




My newest idea is Stephen West's Samen.  The yarn is held double in this shawl with short rows to make the shape.  My color ideas will be very different from what is seen here, but the shape of the shawl will be similar.

Carla's Tashashu Gordon scarf

Our knitting group met at Sarah's Kanawha City knitting shop in the end of March.  Carla bought yarn for a pattern that she had bought on Ravelry called Short Scarf Dryad.  She is getting ready to start the scarf and I do love what she bought!



The yarn she bought from Sarah is



It is a solid gray and then a variegated



Carla is using my 2.5mm circular needles.  What a wonderful use for a variegated yarn!

Start as many new projects as you like!

Linda Wilkinson sent me a link to a blog that was sharing an article from Interweave.  The article is about starting as many new projects as one likes.  I am not sure that I agree with that.  But I do believe in having three projects going at any one time.  I find that starting a new project is lots of fun, but it takes a lot of time and is hard to do in a social situation.  So I need to find some down time in my life to spend on my new project.

Why three projects?  Because I knit mostly in social situations or while on the phone and etc, I find that if I make a mistake I need to knit something else until I have some quiet time to fix whatever is causing the problem.  So I always have two projects that go with me.  And then I need a third project that is perhaps just a bit more challenging ....or perhaps it is not seasonal.

I know that seasonal is kind of crazy.....but I do not like to knit heavy wool in the summer....I want to experiment with linen or hemp or silk or something summery!  And then when winter rolls around, I want to pull out those warm, wool projects that make me "drool"!  I am not above putting a half finished project up when April rolls around to pull back out in September!

So here is the link if you want to read the article for yourself:

https://mailchi.mp/yarnandcoffee/owdsuq9mhl?e=670940a7aa

I am dreaming of some summer projects right now:





And the next yarn is even prettier in person and is a big bowl on my family room trunk/coffee table.