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For all the world to hear, or at least the few of you that stumble upon my blog, I love this colorway! The minisweater yarn produced what might possibly be, in my humble opinion, the most beautiful gauge sample EVER. It's only a gauge sample, so my knitting skills can take none of the credit. The sweater itself is making progress, just no pictures taken yet for posting. In the meantime feast your eyes on the summery sunset hues of Araucania's Patagonia Nature Cotton.
Yarn: Muench Tessin #65804 (Black with Colors)
Needles: Size 9 dpns
Pattern: None - a quick guage swatch and some leg measurements and I was off and knitting. I did knit the top ribbing with some black elastic thread to help them stay up.
Sadly legwarmers and summer heat waves don't mix. Expect to see these woolies reappear with cooler temps.
This week marks the first week of my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) membership, a Christmas present from my mom and dad. CSA’s hook up local farmers with hungry people who want fresh local produce, providing farmers with a steady source of income and consumers with farm fresh goods that support local growers, a win-win deal if ever there was one. A CSA membership gets you weekly deliveries of whatever is ripe for picking that week. Mine is run through the 6th Street Community Center at Avenue B, and delivers food through November. Deliveries for 2 people average about 5 lbs of food per week. Produce is picked on the farm in the AM and delivered to city sites the same day for evening pick up. The only downside seems to be the potential for getting a lot of the same thing as it comes into season – hence all my plans for copious canning and pickling. Yesterday I picked up an allotment of 4 different kinds of lettuce, radishes, arugula, joi choi (kin to bok choy), lambs quarters (similar to spinach in taste, but not looks), yukina savoy (Chinese cabbage), mizuna (Japanese mustard greens used in mesclun salad mix), and apples. Whew. I hadn't even heard of some of these greens, so I'll provide links for background info on those that required Googling on my part. A salad spinner / lettuce washer has been purchased just to accommodate the invasion of greenery. For more info on CSAs, check out Just Food or Farm to Table
Eat Knit and Be Happy, such a good mantra that I wish I could take credit for it (instead, I had to make due with buying a t-shirt emblazoned with the logo). Giving credit where it is due, the phrase can be attributed to The Point, a new yarn store in the West Village. We (we being too many knitters for me to keep track of) gathered there this afternoon to knit and bask in the aura of Amy Singer, of knitty fame, who was visiting in NYC. I took the opportunity to begin my latest attempt at whittling down my yarn stash - legwarmers!
In true 80's style, the plan is to pair the finished product with a pair of hot pink Chuck Taylors (while I'm giving credit, thanks to Michelle for the hot pink inspiration). Next up - the Minisweater (aka boob sling) in Patagonia Nature Cotton in sunset shades of orange and red.
