I Wasn't Happy With My Knitting Project

So you may remember the purple shell I was knitting. I finally admitted that it wasn't bringing me much joy. I dutifully worked on it every Sunday at my knitting group but almost never picked it up during the week. I have now packed it away and started on some hiking socks that I am really excited about. They are colorful and fun and very soft!

I also started testing out the little loom that I bought at the wool fest over the weekend. It's pretty cool and I can see that I would like to find a bigger loom and take a class sometime to learn how to make cool patterns. I just hope I can figure out how to take this weaving off the loom when I'm through or I'll just have to hang the whole loom on the wall and call it art.

More Uses For My Yarn

I went to the Shepherd's Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival in Lake Elmo, MN today with 2 knitter friends. We looked at all of the wonderful yarn, spinning wheels, and weaving looms in the first barn we came to and loved it all! 2 of us even bought our first looms. Mine is a very simple Ashford Weaving Frame.

I also bought some Woolch. It is a blend of wool fibers and wood toothpick shavings that is used as a pesticide-free mulch and can later be tilled under to add nitrogen to the soil. Pretty cool!

After looking at everything we realized there were 2 more barns full of vendors. It was spectacular and I didn't even buy more yarn to add to my stash.