Return of the Sticks

There's a fiber fair this weekend, so I went with Mom yesterday. I wasn't going to buy anything - I bought some beautiful blue roving last year and of course have not spun more than a handful of it - but I did end up with two skeins of different blues from a local farm (mix of Romney, Wensleydale, and Blue-Faced Leicester) to knit Christmas presents for Dad and Melissa. Was going to be socks, but I would have needed more, so a hat for Dad and a lace scarf for Melissa. Started in on the hat last night, found that my dpns in that size are metal (damn) and are a set of four so not quite compatible with the organization of the pattern (DAMN), so it was not fun getting it started, but it is. I always forget how much I like knitting - haven't done it in probably about two years. Also forget how much I dislike winding center-pull balls.

At the local fiber mill's booth, I picked up a copy of Interweave (from after I stopped subscribing) with an adorable "Downton sweater" that I'm going to make someday, though it involves a lot of stranded colorwork so maybe I'll just knit it plain, and a copy of Knitting Traditions because their global designs are usually very classic.

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