The Golden Iris

We've all been there. Maybe it’s wool fumes, maybe it’s a color (or three) that calls your name, but suddenly you end up with a big skein of variegated yarn and you have no idea what to do with it. Here’s something to try - a big cozy cowl that you can wear wrapped once or twice. The stitch pattern grabs on to short stretches of color and turns them into little starbursts all over the fabric. Laughing photos are the best photos The Denver Cowl is a new FREE pattern, born of a collaboration between Miss Babs and myself. It's designed to make the most of the always-changing, no-two-alike, fun and funky "Babettes" that Babs dyes. There's a secret to the process that I can't reveal, but it means that there are always super-saturated flashes of fantastic colors all over the skein. Denver Cowl, worn as a scarf The yarn is the fabulous Miss Babs Yowza . If you've never worked with this stuff, you're missing out. It's 8 oz. of superwash meri...

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Last weekend I headed to the marketplace at Interweave Knitting Lab in San Mateo and came away with some new goodies. I got a box project bag and a wee tiny little triangle bag... Project bags And I couldn't resist a little yarn from Alpenglow and Knitted Wit. New yarn! I am busy whipping up a couple new things, which I hope to be able to share with you soon! And then of course there's the standard super-sekrit sample knitting and super-sekrit Christmas knitting going on, but I suppose all will be revealed in due time.