We have a great group of women that get together once a month for knitting. We call it Yarn Yoga since we seem to untangle a lot of yarn each time, and our contortions typically look like a great yoga class. Often the untangling covers an entire living room, with groups of us in each corner trying to untangle our knots so we can continue to wind the yarn.... very fun, indeed. Today we didn't have any tangled yarn to "yoga" with, so we just enjoyed each other's stories and had a lot of laughs. The highlights included an acrylic trunk show from Turkey (including the purple wrap in the first picture), and lots of great knitting. One of the questions we pondered was, since we (in the USA) get a lot of great yarn from Turkey, why is it hard to find good yarn in Turkey when you are visiting there? Why is all their yarn-for-sale acrylic? Also, why aren't there local yarn and spinning stores in Scotland, as they have a million sheep there... what happens to all that great wool? (if you know the answers to these mysteries, please let me know)
Picture #1: The Turkish Wrap, and Sawyer's sock
Picture #2: Really, these are the beginnings of toe up socks... not a bathing suit top....
Picture #3: A beautiful scarf out of many types of yarn, from a class at Sewing Expo from Roberta
Picture #4: Crocheting hot pads from stash & scrap yarn
Picture #5: a sleeve to a great jacket that was knit partially in Scotland and partially in Washington D.C.
Picture #6: an alpaca Mobieus...turning out beautiful, and able to come home on the plane from Turkey
All these projects (and the women knitting them) are so inspiring! We played with yarn for hours!
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