Blocking ~

While I'm blocking the qiviut scarf, I thought I'd get some of the hats blocked too. #moreqiviutplease #17hatsin2017

Cast Off Qiviuk!

After seven years!!!! #lovemuskox

My Musk Ox 💚

 #morefiberplease #moreyarnplease #gottafinishthisscarf #lovemuskox #loveqiviuk
Home again to my very own musk ox qiviuk, given to me by a dear friend when she was in Anchorage years ago.  I need to finish this scarf!

Found it!

Yes!  We found the Musk Ox Co-op, but they didn't have single skeins of yarn for sale, just hat kits..so I need to get home and finish my qiviut scarf!  There were ladies knitting in this shop and they were delightful!  I touched all the sample garments too!

Yes, there is a musk ox in this house...

I really wanted to brush this hide, and spin the fibers....my cousin said that would be ok... I love family!

Qiviuk Scarf gets some love!

I have been working on this scarf for sooooo long!  Still so lovely, yet I need total concentration for pattern!

I Love Qiviuk ~

I had forgotten how much I love this yarn. It is really more like a spiderweb made of a silky soft thread. I pulled this out of my assorted bags of projects and fell in love again. How could I have stopped working on this? Especially when the super star of my favorite yarn shop had fixed my mistake last year?

So I started knitting again, with my 3 by 5 cards with each row written out since the chart was too complex for me (I know, I know...but don't judge me). This scarf is so lovely and soft! I am sure it will be super warm too!

Cast on Shibui ~

Once the beads were threaded on this lovely yarn, I had to cast on right away. I was curious how knitting with this cobweb would be ~ worried it might be very tricky and cumbersome to knit with something as thick as a thread... oh, but how lovely it is!Not sure how easy or difficult it will be, but it is reminding me a bit of my qiviuk scarf yarn, but not quite as soft :) With these Signature Needles, the color contrast is so beautiful, and the knitting is such a delight so far!Do the beads look as if they are matching a bit better? (not so much, you say?) Well, they look fine to me....:)

Qiviuk and coffee ~

Working on this lovely scarf made from this cobweb of fiber is a lovely experience. I find that it is growing bit by bit with each row of teeny tiny stitches.These green Signature Needles are so great to work with, even with the green needle against the green qiviuk yarn. All lovely!

Qiviuk and tea ~

This scarf is so beautiful. I'm happy to be working on it again. This qiviuk yarn is so fine that I'm thinking about getting some pointier size 5 needles for it - I'll check my Bass Pro Extreme Worm Binder for some Addi Lace needles...although I'm loving these rosewood needles too, but they just aren't pointy enough for the lace... The yarn is so fine and soft, it is like knitting a cloud....

Qiviuk forever ~

Another luxury of the holidays is to be able to work on knitting that is not part of the, "items that must be knit by Christmas" and so I pulled out this amazing Qiviuk scarf that I started awhile ago. I was having trouble reading the chart in Arctic Lace, so I wrote all 33 lines (just the odd rows, as the even rows are purl back) on individual index cards. What a big help that is!You can see the lime green index card under this wee scarf start. Can you see the rosewood needles as well. I may be knitting on this qiviuk scarf with rosewood needles forever....but that's not really a bad thing.... :)

Arctic Lace ~

I've been thinking of the amazing Qiviuk that my sweet friend, Debbie Doo, sent me from her Alaska trip. She had said I should look into the book Arctic Lace, as it is about the knitters in Alaska, so I put it on hold at the library.... It turned out that Debbie Doo was correct about this book. Such inspiration about the yarn and the amazing women that knit out of this wondrous musk ox fiber. I cast on one of the sample scarf patterns, on my size 5 rosewood needles (big smile there!) and this Qiviuk is like knitting with cobwebs! Once I made it past the first knit row after the cast on, it was easier to knit. This will take me many many many hours of knitting.....