Life LackaDaisiCal

I’ve wanted to try the Tanis Fiber Arts Purewash Wool for quite a while...so when I saw the City Limits design by Tanis Lavallee, well, I decided that the time was right! The fingering craze is starting to wear on me, I have to tell you. I love fine yarns, fine gauge knitting, but it takes forever to finish a garment, doesn’t it??? So this sweater, designed for Worsted weight yarn....but Tanis knit her sweater using two strands of her Purelife Fingering AND added a bonus strand of mohair.  When contemplating two strands of fingering...oh my, the possibilities! Strand two shades together for an all over marl. Use a fade of 5 skeins and alternate them in a striped marl! Use mohair, or don’t!  The TFA “Spicy Fade” with Metropolis Mohair Spicy Fade : Retro, Mimosa, Paisley, Roulette, Vamp Tanis previews her shop updates...and when I saw the Spicy Fade that was a billed as a representation of her Marled Metropolis   ..... a version of her Metropolis desi

I had a great afternoon chatting with a knit friend who lives at a distance...we don’t see each other often, but we share a love of fine yarn and hand knits! While Darlene and I met and bonded over our shared passion for Rowan Yarns...recently Darlene has gone wild for speckles and pops, in particular HedgeHog Fibres Skinny Singles! Join us while Darlene talks about this new direction her knitting has taken, and shows off her fabulous collection of shawls! Darlene shows us her finished shawls..... Born Trippy by Beata Jezek Outline by Beata Jezek Feather Weather by Beata Jezek Find Your Fade by Andrea Mowry Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry   Boardwalk by Stephen West Dotted Rays by Stephen West Darlene is wearing  Birds of a Feather by Andrea Mowry My first project in Hedgehog Fibres is the Breathe and Hope shawl by Casapinka! Darlene and I get our HedgeHog from our LYS,  The Needle Emporium  in Ancaster, Ontario!