What's in your basket?

Did you get a basket this morning? Was it filled with chocolate eggs (yum) and peeps (yuk) or perhaps a chocolate bunny? These are baskets that I am hoping for..filled with lots of yarn ~ ALL my favorite yarn (who do I talk to about this?).

Mission Accomplished ~

Anna's hat is beautiful! I finished it with alternating stripes of a soft alpaca blend that I found at my local yarn store, Cultured Purls. If you really study the hat, you can see where the yarn changes are, as the crown of the hat has a bit of an angora halo. The lace blocked out very well and the Pagewood Farms Yarn was great to work with. My sister is very pleased with it, too.

Since I only had to use a wee bit of the alpaca blend yarn, I also bought a matching yarn to make Anna another chemo cap in purples..... with a new pattern, too.....

AACK! Yarn Emergency!

I didn't realize that Pagewood Farms yarn is a small scale hand dyer operation and difficult to find... as I am not going to have enough to finish Anna's hat... Friend Lisa tried 8 local yarn shops and I tried one.....so now I am on the hunt for matching yarn... The pattern is turning out well, the lace was easy and will block well too (I think). I will try our local yarn store, too, Cultured Purls.
P.S. Can you believe this snow?

A new mission ~

I love a new knitting mission. I love the chance to knit for someone that needs my knitting. I love knitting each stitch knowing that the care and love in each row will seep into the person wearing it. My sister asked me to knit a chemo hat for her co-worker, Anna. She even gave me some Pagewood Farms yarn that she had been knitting into a scarf, but it was speaking to her that it didn't want to be a scarf... so she asked if I would knit the Pagewood Farms yarn into a hat for Anna. Of course I will......

Pagewood Farms is a beautiful yarn, part silk and part camel, I never did see the tag, but the yarn is oh~so~soft! I'm using a pattern from friend Lisa, and she says this is a good chemo cap pattern.