Coda’s Chiengora!

We had 14 ounces! Now I just have to decide what to do with it.  The kids wanted a blanket, but this is on par with angora or something expensive and you just don’t make a blanket out of that kind of thing.

He seems very pleased with it as well!

Nightberry scarf and matching hat

I had just enough left of the Nightberry Caron Big Cakes to make a broomstick lace scarf, with fringe, and a matching hat.  I need to start doing a foundation chain for hats since the ‘brim’ has no stretch and is slightly tighter than the rest but otherwise this one fits perfectly.

Coda’s Fur

It’s finally happening!  I’ve been saving Coda’s under-coat for around 2 years at this point, and I found someone local who will spin it into yarn.  Now finding someone wasn’t that difficult, but some people like to mix wool with it, or were overly fussy about picking out guard hairs. I think one person literally charged a several dollars an hour to pick through the fur to get those bits out.

The person who now has Coda’s fur just spins the fur with what looks like very little fur drama.  I am rather regretting not saving absolutely everything I had combed out, at times I just threw it away or left it in the yard for the birds, but I still had nearly a pound.  I’ll post pictures when I get it back!

Apparently it’s called ‘chiengora’ where chien is French for dog. And ‘gora’ is like angora, the really soft rabbit.

Scarves!

I’ve been able to make the broomstick lace a lot faster lately, so I’ve made a number of scarves recently.  I think it was so slow before because Caron Simply Soft likes to slip and split a lot.

Finished another Mandala

I really like this pattern.  I was going to keep this for myself, but I felt like a magical cotton candy unicorn so I put it in my shop instead. Nothing against magical unicorns but, I’m going to probably make mine out of a Sheepjes Whirl instead.