BFL Handspun Scarf

The Creator has finished the Blue Faced Leicester Handspun Scarf. He initially made the scarf for himself, however, the boss lady decided that she would purchase it for an undisclosed amount. He bought more fiber with the cash.

The fiber is from Dicentra Designs. The color ways is Sailor's Jade. It's a lovely shade of blue, green, teal, and black. The colorway mash of lovely jewel tones. The fiber started out like this:




It was spun into two lovely hanks of this beautiful single-ply yarn.The jewel tones after spinning came out in very distinct colors that blended very nicely together.





The Creator had his eye on this pattern for quite sometime. It is the One Row Handspun Scarf by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee aka the Yarn Harlot. I can see why she developed the pattern for hand spun yarn. It works beautiful with the yarn and allows interest of the yarn and the pattern to marry.

He casted on in January and finished it last week.

I really wanted this to hang around my for more than 2 seconds it took this picture.







Here is a bit more of the stitch definition:

The Shuffle

It seems that 'NSync girl can't be the roving correspondent I want her to be. She went to knit night the other night and left all the details out in the post she wrote. Seriously, I'm pretty sure there was good stuff that was said but she only caught a few things and I don't think the conversation about a shaggy man dying with mink was properly convey to me. So, I have found someone new. Don't worry, I haven't turfed 'NSync gurl out, instead she will be my Vanna of Yarn. I am quite sure she can pull herself together and stop thinking about her boys for more than three minutes to help model yarn.

So, meet Horbert.




The Creator found him in a lonely little sugar bowl. He needed work. So, here is Horbert. He is standing by the socks The Creator is in the middle of knitting. He was at boy's knitting with DM, Frank, and Gene. From what Horbart said the boys talked about registration on the Men's Rocky Mountain Knitting retreat in July. They are thinking about opening it up around the first of the month. I hope I get to go and be in on all the action up there. I have read The Creator's e-mails. BTW... he needs a SPAM filter. I don't think he needs an Orchard Bank credit card, a Jazzed Dating Profile, or something to melt fat away...

Anyway, that is the news, I do have to tell you about the scarf he has finished. I had it wrapped around my neck for a few moments... I want one made for me!

New Things in Da'House!

Hallloooo!!!
N'Sync Gurl is here!!! Manny has been a bit under the weather. Well, I should say he is under an extra-fine Merino sweater The Creator has placed over the top of him to dry. I know! Very mean of The Creator to cover our poor Manny up with a drying sweater. He has enough problems lording over this room. Oh, and shhh... I'm going out for cocktails with the girls, so I must get this field report out of the way. Squeeeee! I can't wait! It's going to be soooo fun. We are going to party like it is 1990. I so loved those days. Oh, let me get on with this report.

Now, let me show you what came in the mail today! I have to tell you a about wet my pant when I saw all these great books laying there. I just had to spread myself across them and revel in the nerdy goodness that The Creator just may be. I know, I know; but, I like NERDY Guys. Just look:



Now don't I look fabalous on top of these books. I think I look quite smart.

He purchased five books from an on-line bookstore. He had a gift card from Christmas. So, really two of these books are Christmas presents. YAY, I love Christmas presents.

Oh... shiny! The Creator ordered some yarn from fabric.com. He had a 30% off coupon and the yarn was also 30% off. It was on clearance.



This is some Rowan Summer Tweed in a green color. I don't care for the color myself, but then The Creator has some chic ideas for him to make something nice. It has silk in it you know. I'm trying to nestle myself down in this yarn because I think it may be a nice and warm. And we have and some cold days here. OMG, Betty, just the other day, I was thinking I could freeze and break. My plastic doesn't like the cold. And then I couldn't do all the partying I do. I would become old and bitter.

Hold, please, I need a glass of wine. My wheels will be here any moment and I need to prime before we have our little cocktail party! BooYA! All those girls drink way more than me. I need to catch up.

Ok... I have a nice glass of blush. Now, we move on to the this FINE yarn that came in with that Summer Tweed stuff. It is ITALIAN! Now, it is just as soft and luscious.

Here is me in my best Price is Right showing off rendition. I really need a set for me to make this happen just like those lovely ladies do on the Prices is Right. I guess I will have to build one.


I don't know why he bought this green color. It is so boyish. It is like the other green yarn he bought. He must be on a green kick.

Now, I really think this stuff is the bomb. I really wanted to rip off all my clothing and roll around in this yarn. Here is me sitting on it instead. I really love the light blue. I could see a nice sweater for me. But, it will make me look old. And I have a reputation to uphold.I still want to party like it is 1990!



Oh my there is a horn honking. Oh, yeah, my wheels are here to take me out with the rest of the girls. I need to spritz a bit of that sparkly glitter stuff on and get my cutie patootie out the door. BooYA!

I'm sure Manny will have more to say once he reads this...
Keep it real, peeps!

Introduction and the Last of the Toppers

The Creator finally left the little blue box in the room. Now, I can spill more beans about what goes on in this room.

First, I have a new roving correspondent. We call her ‘NSYNC gurl. I know, she is a bubbly blonde stuck in the 1990s but that is what I have been given to work with. She also is in bad need of a styling and hair cut because she wears this cap thing. But, she is part of my plastic family, so, I must not say too much about all this. And she is my roving correspondent. I have tasked her with typing and taking photos. It’s great to have a minion! Here she is sitting on top.

Project News from the Creator

It appears The Creator has finished two more toppers! I wish he would leave them on my top so that I don’t catch a chill. It isn’t going to be good to get plastic sick. I hate cracking. Hat number 1 is from that Crazy Zauerball in all different colors. It is a bit stiff and itchy. It needs a good soak before it is sent off.



The other is a blue topper. Evidently, this is The Creator’s first color work. All his knitting gurl deemed it that he should write the pattern down and sell it on Ravelry. I don’t know if he will do that, but, they seem to think it will sell at $3 a pattern. We will see. I like the blue one. It is made from Rowan Cashsoft Aran weight. Evidently it is dreamy to knit with and it just slides off the needles in nothing flat. I am trying to get the creator to make me something it. 

Here it is with me modeling it! I think I look right dapper with this topper.

The Creator has also figured out the pattern for the Squirrel Blanket. He sat on my floor one day last week and figured it out. It appears that it was a technical issue where the yarn is wrapped opposite from the way he normally wraps it around the crochet hook. Now, it all looks right and he has six rows of the blue done. Just 14 more to go I think. I should have sent ‘Nsync gurl over to see what rows he really needs to do. She isn’t versed yet in reporting things. She still has problems with shiny objects.

I also need to let you all know what the creator bought on his last trip to Tucson. He came back with a basket full of stuff. But, the night is almost over and I need to put everything back the way it was. It is the way of the plastic people.

Another New Topper!

The Creator came home last night and put this charming blue topper with a Airplane on it. Evidently, it was left behind by Ms. Skeindalous.



She also left a book that The Yarn Shop Owner Who Must Not Be Named said she would take care of. I wanted the book!!! The Creator wasn't looking after my best interest. He was not, I tell you. I like looking at books. I don't have enough in my room that go with all this yarn The Creator has.

He has also ripped out another scarf. I want a pretty scarf around my neck. It seems there were holes where the cables were supposed to be. Here is what he was attempting to do: The Lamar Scarf. All the yarn girls agreed that it should be frogged and something else done with it. Perhaps The Creator will use the appropriate chunky yarn for this project next time and not use that worsted silky yarn that gaps. Gaps were not supposed to be there.

He started something else for his trip last night. He has this lucious home-spun Blue Face Leicester that he will be making something like this with: one row handspun scarf. That Yarn Harlot can't go wrong. He thinks it will look lovely in his homespun yarn:



I'm thinking about getting me a roving correspondent. I think The Creator lies to me. I must search this little blue box for someone I can send with The Creator. Suggestions?

The Squirrel Repair Project

The Creator's friend, Mark, gave him a blanket to repair.



You see there in the black and the green where some little critters called squirrels nested. They felted red heart yarn in a few places. I hope The Creator doesn't model the finished product on me. I know he washed it several times in bleach and in pinesol and then once more just to make sure all squirrel goobers were gone.

Over the weekend, he has been figuring out the stitch of this blanket. He was a little confounded. You see, the cute little old lady that made this blanket, crochets with the yarn over the hook and not the yarn under the hook like he does. Once he got that, he started dancing in the room. It was weird. The black side is the begining side and he thinks he may use one of those crochet hooks with the string on it to pickup stitches and do the pattern in reverse. I don't think he knows what he is doing on that side of things. I will wait and see. It maybe interesting for a while here in my little room.

I snapped a picture for you all to see where he started with this project:

The Yarn Gurl's Yarn Exchange

A few day's ago, The Creator was all in a twitter about what he was going to give the yarn gurls he meets with in the Yarn Exchange. It was interesting to see him go through the 13 totes of yarn and The Bookcase to find something to give. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of what he gave. The little red box wasn't in the room for me to use. So, I will just have to describe it for you.

He wound up three skiens of handspun thick and thin yarn. The first skein was a lovely superwash merino in a red with a bit of purple and green. It rocked, but he didn't know what to do with this yarn. On top of that, he had a hard time finding the end of the yarn. He had it on that cross-stick thing that he puts skeins of yarn on to wind in to cakes. He couldn't find the end. He was spinning the yarn around and around and had all this yarn on the floor. I don't know why he did this. It looked a mess. He finally cut the yarn and caked it up with the hand caking machine. It looked lovely when done.

The second skien was this superwash merino hand-dyed purple & plum thick and thin yarn. He zipped that right up in to a cake and off he went.

He really had a hard time giving the next skein away. It was a yummy blue/green wool/silk hand spun thick and thin yarn. I had the skein around my plastic neck for a time and it was lovely sitting on my plastic.

Come to find out, Megan received the yarn. He said she was grateful and loved the yarn. It will be interesting to see what she makes out of it.

The Creator brought home a nice bag of Purple with a smattering of yellow yarn that Joy had offered. Take a look here:



That is 2 large skeins of Sumptuous in purple, some yellow wool for felting, a dark purple ball of Cotton Silk, 2 light purple balls of Classic Elite Cotton Bamboo, a light gray Classic Elite, a yellow Classic Elite, a ball of no name purple and a ball of a darker olive green thing. As a bonus, a small stitch book!

The Creator has ideas for the Sumptuous and the Classic Elite purples. The others, he will think upon and make something. I can see the wheels turning from here.