The start of the tinies

Starting work on the mini ornaments. I have a Tiny Tee Raglan, that really is a 'tee' as in more of shirt style than a sweater.

I was winding up the Happy Feet I got for these projects and I noticed the bag that had my Yarn Samples from the Sampling class at Knit Purl this last fall. I popped each little bit on the ball winder and made mini-cakes. Then on the digital scale to find out how much I had.

It's still guess work for me on if I will have enough since so many of the designers put the yardage of the skein they used and don't include if they used the entire thing or not. Since these mini-ornaments are supposed to use leftover sock yarns, I figured I stood a good chance with my samples.

I had to borrow a foot or so from the Happy Feet to bind off the sweater tee. I still think it looks terribly cute. I need to have Brandon bring be home some paper clips from the office so that I can make a hangar for it too.




Another full sweater tomorrow and mittens, hats and socks - all mini.

Yarn Sampling - pic heavy!

Knit/Purl as previously mentioned had their Yarn Sampling class last night. Totally awesome experience!

We 'sampled' five different yarns - silk/wool, merino, wool/alpaca, silk/cashmere/wool, alpaca and were able to keep our little sample balls. They were attractively presented in little cupcake papers. I also tried out Addi lace needles (US3) - very nice! We were also given one extra, because two of them were Catherine Lowe yarns that are exclusive to Knit/Purl.

Naming convention used: Manufacturer, Line name, Colorway name
TilliTomas-Milan-Tapestry
SchaeferYarns-Judith-RenataTebaldi
Isager-2
Catherine Lowe Couture Yarn-Merino3-Peacock
Catherine Lowe Couture Yarns-#5-Black Violet
Handmaiden-SeaMaiden-NovaScotia
Shibui-MerinoWorsted-Spectrum

Knit/Purl is very generous and also offered us an hors d'oeuvres platter with HUGE red seedless grapes, a wedge of brie with some I think rice wafer crackers. To wash that down we had our choice of apple cider, champagne or their new tea selections. I enjoyed the apple cider. There were also little packets of dark chocolate, I only nibbled mine.

We were also given little pattern swatch ideas. Our first one using the Tilli Tillman had been done as a child's sweater and was a fun twisted cable type look without actually cabling. We also received copies of the Bainbridge scarf pattern and Sarah Morris' baby hat pattern for the skein of Shibuiknits worsted we received.

The class was only $5 and then they returned that $5 in a gift card that you could save or use on anything in the store. I had noticed they had two skeins of Velvet Grapes Malabrigo Lace and so they came home with me.