I love getting packages. Just this week I’ve had yarn from Martina in Germany, my Colinette that I ordered back in early December, some Lopi and Mission Falls pattern books from Yarn Forward, and some handpainted yarn from Silkwood.<\/p>\n
I’ve also finished the Regia stripe socks and a scarf from some Brazilia Fantasy Color from my order with Martina. Brazilia is an eyelash yarn and the Fantasy Color is a striped variation of it. It knits up very quickly and because the central core of the yarn is a bit thicker than most eyelash it has a good amount of body to it. It’s also incredibly soft. Sadly this yarn is now out of stock cross Germany as it has proved to be too popular! I have four different colours in my stash but hope that the others I ordered come back into stock soon as these will make great scarf gifts.<\/p>\n
I’m also knitting a sock in Trekking. It’s a tweedy yarn and has a sort of handwoven quality to it when it’s knit up. I really like it. Pix tomorrow, but the reason I started these socks is because the yarn matches a shirt that I like. Usually when I wear this particular shirt with trousers I match it with a pair of Opal Royal purple\/blue socks. They’re not quite the right colour but when they’re in my Doc Marten shoes you can’t really see much of them. The new socks will co-ordinate better. Once they’re out of the way I may start a pair of gift socks for my friend Anne who doesn’t read this blog. I’m going to knit them from some sport weight yarn in blue shades hand dyed by Lynn H<\/a>. <\/p>\n Still Reading The Time Traveller’s Wife. It’s such an engrossing book. The only time that I think about reading though, is when I go to bed. As a result I’ve many late nights because I just can’t stop reading it! It is a truly wonderful book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love getting packages. Just this week I’ve had yarn from Martina in Germany, my Colinette that I ordered back in early December, some Lopi and Mission Falls pattern books Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}