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.

Want List

I don’t really need any more yarn right now, not exactly, but I have a few I’m keeping an eye on for later.

Joy DK Yarn by Loops and Threads.  I went to a Michaels to look at this today, and I liked it. It’s a size 3 and similar to Caron Simply soft. Only 250 meters though.

Loops and Threads Payette yarn.  It was on clearance and appears to have that tinsel effect through it and sequins.  Like most things on Michaels it was not in the store and out of stock online.  I’d love to get some sequin yarn though.

Lion Brand Wrap Star.  I love ombre yarns that fad from a dark color to light, or vice versa, only once.

Sheepjes Whirl, definitely plan on trying this at some point.