A Tag Sale For Us!
color crochet dyed free hand knit michael paint pattern stitch table tag sale wool yarn
Every twelvemonth at the Men's Spring Knitting Retreat, guys are encouraged to convey items for sale at the tag sale tables...yarn, books, needles, hooks, notions, etc.
Yarn Buying For a Good Cause
Since the guys who sell yarn tin allocate a percentage (or all) of the proceeds for the sale of their tag sale items to the Scholarship Fund for the Men's Knitting Retreat, nosotros unremarkably accept a lot of guys bringing things to sell together with nosotros halt upwards funding virtually a total scholarship to the retreat each twelvemonth based on the tag sale donations alone.This year, acre my friend Michael wasn't able to attend the retreat, he sent this inwards his place.
This is virtually 2,400 yards of hand-painted, superwash merino inwards a worsted weight yarn.
Michael has been focusing on his quilting together with stuff dyeing inwards the final few years together with his move is really amazing. He decided to endeavor his mitt at dyeing yarn together with this fantastic batch of yarn resulted. He has rattling generously donated the proceeds of the sale of this yarn to the scholarship fund this year. I'm thinking $4.50 a hank volition brand these hanks wing off the table, but I'll permit you lot know.
Current Knitting
I raced a flake since Mon to complete the dorsum of the Briar Rose Pullover.
The length from shoulder to waist is virtually 26" together with overall, I'm quite pleased alongside how this is turning out together with thence far. Here it is inwards reverse:
It shows off the pooling of colors a flake to a greater extent than without the columns of slipped stitches, but it's even together with thence quite an amazing fabric...soft, plush together with rattling warm.
I'm besides quite excited to starting fourth dimension designing the forepart cervix opening.
Readers' Comments/Questions
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