Once upon a time I attended a weaving open house. I watched her dress the loom and decided right then and there that weaving, with all its glorious potential for combination of colors and generation of pattern,was a creative cold that I wasn't going to catch. Nope, that was one fiber related activity that I was immune to.
Or so I thought until today, when I stumbled across the Ashford Knitters Loom.
I don't know if it was the part about using knitting weight yarn for weaving or the part that said I could have a scarf in a couple of hours. I think it was that second part. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the second part that put me over the edge. And to hammer the nail in the coffin, there was the part about how it folds up. You know, as in, it will fit into the studio. And how it's portable. As in, I can work in the park while Maggie gets her outside time.
Here's something made with it: I love the idea of mixing a woven scarf with a knitted sweater.
puskin3's pygora scarf on ravelry.com
Sigh. It all started so innocently. I noticed that my vest (a future post) was swallowing up yarn faster than expected. After some quick calculations, I realized that I was going to be about one skein short. This required immediate emergency shopping, since the yarn I'm using has been discontinued. It's not easy to find, and one bumps into things while looking…
Have you heard anything about these? A quick look at the ravelry discussion sounded like a foreign language. Surely it can't be that hard.
Is there any point even in trying to resist?
Maureen
What wonders and delights await?
