Category: Blue Moon Fiber Arts
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The Gifting of the Socks.
Ever since I picked out the clothes for my mom to wear, I wrestled with the idea about how I would deal with the remaining 19 pair of handknitted socks I had made for her. This idea popped into my head sometime during the night before her services. After the service, family and close friends…
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Calling Miss Woodhouse.
How often does it happen that you are snooping around on Ravelry and you find a shawl with your name on it? I mean literally, the shawl’s name is your last name? Well, it happened to me and here it is! For details, see my Ravelry page. I love all things Blue Moon, and this…
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I’ve Been Busy Lately.
I bought this Rare Gem at Sock Camp 09, aka KnittyHaha. It was a mdwt STR and had two different kinds of yarn it that composed this skein. Half of it appears to be Silkie STR and the rest regular mdwt STR. I think the colorway is Crabby McCrabbypants. I decided to knit this shawl,…
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Ooohhhh. Ahhhhh. Ooohhh. Qiviut…….Qivuk……
Yuuummmmmmmyyyyyyy! Maybe better than Cashmere? This is Qiviuk, also called Qiviut (pronounced Kiv-ee-uk or Kiv-ee-ut, long u) from Alaska. My brother and sister in law went on an inside passage cruise this summer. I emailed him telling him that if he ran across any yarn stores to see if they had any Qiviut. They happened…
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More of Camp KnittyhaHA
Tina “smooshing” color as only Tina can do. Beautiful in an instant. Magical where the colors meet. Ever seen a crab who knows how to knit? This is one does , and he wasn’t the only crab there who knew how, there were at least 5 or 6 other crabs with projects in various stages…
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Life at Camp KnittyhaHA
If you are going to learn to dye yarn, why not learn from the best? Here is Tina Newton from Blue Moon showing us how…………………. And here are my 3 hand dyed skeins of STR Mediumwt! And here is Ozzie’s Monkey to be!
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Melissa’s wedding and Cow Clogs
Ringo is the luckiest Drunken Party Monkey ever ! Not only did he stow away in my bag, he got to smooch up on the bride! And here he is …………………………………………………………and here are my new Cow Clogs, Carson got them for me for my birthday! They will look great with my STR socks! The agenda…
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A Big Monkey for the Little Guy
Here is the Little Guy today after his 2PM feeding. Ready to get the UV light turned back on. His bilirubin is still high, so he still has to be under the UV light. They gave him a different light today, it provides a much greater surface area and will hopefully help him to return…
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It is definitely Summer time!
I there knitting friends! It is officially summer, the middle of June. I am finally blogging again. I had rotator cuff surgery on June 9, and since my injury wasn’t to the point where a lot of repair work had to be done, I have the official blessing of the orthopod to type on the…