So I finally got a chance to take photos yesterday. Busy or lazy? Who can tell?

This is the lovely funky scarf I received from my partner, Casey.

Isn’t it puurty? That’s the “Misty Garden” feather and fan pattern from Scarf Style, which is usually done in fuzzy mohair but it takes on a whole other funky persona with this squishy thick and thin yarn.

It’s nice and soft and wonderfully warm but the COOLEST part about this scarf, aside from it being made just for me, is the YARN. My partner had included the tags from the yarn so I’d know what it was. And I’m so glad she did!

This stuff. Ok. It’s a great thick and thin plied merino yarn called Elaine made by Schaefer Yarns. Schaefer has several series of colors named after notable women in history. I remembered seeing this at some point but it had gotten lost in a sea of random knowledge from the Internet Movie Database. I was so happy to find out which yarn company it is doing this again!

This yarn’s color is from Memorable Women Series VI and named after Eleanor Roosevelt. HOW TOTALLY COOL IS THAT? It totally fits in with my thing for knitting, fun yarn, and women in history!

Thank you so much Casey! And thank you Beverly and Scout for organizing the swap! It was fun to do. It was fun to do these swaps, although these partners are putting me in physical jeopardy by sending stuff to me that are in Scout’s colors like this, she might try to take them you know.

I came across some yarn I’d bought at an estate sale or grabbed at a guild swap (I can’t remember which), either way who knows how old it is. I grabbed it because it’s a great thick and thin with big squiggly overspun thin bits and I liked that. I dyed it last Thanksgiving rather than cooking any actual meal.

I always end up with leftover grape and lime so a lot of my stuff is green and purple. This was towards the end of the dyeing and it wasn’t even totally saturated. I hadn’t really liked how it came out so it had been sitting around in my handspun stuff since last Thanksgiving. It was too crappy a dye job to put up for sale. And the yarn was kind of rough. I had no real plans for it.

With this craft fair coming up I’ve been delving into my stash for feltable yarns to make felted bags to put up for sale. This yarn seemed like a good candidate so I took it out of the bin on Sunday.

I had originally planned on making a felted drawstring bag. There are eyelets above the rolled edge for this purpose. I thought this was too rough for a next-to-the-skin project. But as I knit it my always warm hands melted the lanolin in the yarn and it got softer. My hands got really soft too. .

When I finished it, I put it on top of my head for fun. These things amuse the cats. So does batting around a ballpoint pen but at least I can participate in this. I realized it was really nice and warm! And my hands had softened the yarn so it was really soft!

In the end I had made it a bit wide and short to be a good felted bag but I had a great weird little hat! It’s a little wide on top and still has the eyelets so I plan on maybe putting some ribbon or maybe an icord through the eyelets. I think it’ll look like a big funky circa 1912 hat.