Knitting Today: The Yarn Chicken Won!

 The last few weeks I have been working diligently on knitting a baby blanket. It is now done.  That makes me happy. I think it is really pretty.

This was knit using Plymouth Yarn Company Hot Cakes in two different colorways on US #8 Chiaogoo circular needles.  They did rather go to well together.  

Sadly, as you can see from the bottom (closest to you) the yarn chicken won.  Still, I rwas able to bind off and pass the blanket along.  Next time...well, I was going to say I was going buy an extra skein when I start a new project to avoid yarn chicken BUT I am hoping not to buy yarn for a very long time.  There is plenty of yarn on the premises. AND when the yarn on the premises is used up there is a LOT of roving in white and also a bag or two of colors of roving or combed top, though NOT like the fiber braids you see these days. 

All the fiber I have was acquired a decade and a half ago, or more.  In fact all the white fiber is fiber that I received from shepherds in our Vermont town as a fleece. I did the skirting of the fleece and the washing of the fleece myself on our back lawn.  After cleaning it, I took it to a yarn mill in New Hampshire on the way to the seacoast whose name escapes me now and where they picked it and did other things to it and eventually prepared five large bags of gorgeous roving.  I am looking forward to the day when the spinning of yarn comes to the top of the priority queue.  That is hopefully going to be one day very soon...!