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k…first off…I need to apologize for such a long silence. I started packing for the move a few months in advance and really went through stuff. The couple, Chris and Laurie, who moved me really had a tight timetable to work with and did a lot of work. It was still the toughest move I have ever made. It was a bit tense and communication wasn’t the best at times…but the main thing is, I moved!!
Klahoma is a bit different than Oregon and California, but I lived in the South before. I had spent time in Virginia, and North Carolina, and found the people to be very friendly to this Yankee. I have to say that Guthrie is a really nice town. If you like the type of slow, life style of 40 years ago before technology just started to boom and make the world really go so much faster, this is the place to live in. I love it. When I explain to people I have just moved here from Oregon, they are very helpful as to directions and welcoming me to the area. It is such a nice change from the very fast lane of where I was in Los Angeles. WOW!! What a contrast, when I really think about it!!!
was able to put my things in a storage unit not too far from here and have easy access to my things. A lot of my wool is there, along with all of my kitchen things and a lot of my books, both fiction and Christian. I have only 2 rooms in the house I am basically caretaking. So, sometimes, I bring a box home, and to through it to send it back to storage with a few things taken out. I am making the most of my space here.
have my table loom set up and have spun some California Red that I got from the Velvet Rabbit from Canada off Ebay. I found the nights to be cooler to spin outdoors and I have access to a front covered porch and the back porch that is mine is not covered. When I first moved here in July, the nights were still very humid and a bit sticky to spin outside. It was 100o+ in the day and in the high 70’s and 80’s at night. But now, it is only around 90o with a wonderful breeze in the daytime. Thank GOD…I have AIR CONDITIONING!!!
was able to find a local knit shop called S.W.A.K. They are advertised in a lot of the spinning and knitting magazines. They have a LOT of yarn and notions packed into a longgg shop in downtown Guthrie. Of course I had to check it out when I moved in!!! And talk about EYE CANDY!! This is the place to go for that!!
was able to finish Peggy’s Sheep Shawl before I left Oregon so she could wear it to the high school graduation of her granddaughter in North Carolina. I was the knitter, but I have to admit, I didn’t block it. That is one thing I didn’t have the time or the space to do as the house was filling up fast with boxes. My animals I am sure contributed to some of the yarn and I also didn’t want to add any more to it than I all ready had in knitting it.
t is a Fiber Trends pattern that was definitely a challenge to this knitter. I did rip a lot as the pattern is really intense. I started one out of a lace weight merino for me and ripped it twice and it just shredded. The one I knit for Peggy was a wonderful Shetland lace weight that took the abuse of a few trips to the Frog Pond. So, I got a lesson on knitting lace…
also have a picture of the Elliptical Cable socks  I test knit for Mary McCall. Her pattern is available at http://www.wool-fiber-originals.com/ . I knit the sample out of Nature Spun that was wonderful to work with.
do have to say that I just missed putting my entries in the Logan County Fair as it wasn’t well advertised. I DID get to enter a few things in the Oklahoma State Fair. I had my first fleece I processed from washing to yarn and finally, to a Candle Flame Shawl. I had saved the pattern off the Brown Sheep site and it knit up nicely. It was a Lincoln/Romney X in a medium grey. The woman, who raised this particular sheep, lives in Maine. The sheep’s name was Eclipse, as she has since passed away. So, I am hoping I will get a ribbon for it, as I want to send the shawl to Mae in Maine for her to see my very first knit project from fleece to shawl!!
also entered the Elliptical Cable Socks, a set of tatted earrings from an old pattern I found last winter, a Christmas Stocking I knit in intarsia for Shadeaux, my collie, and a knit peach layette set, and a crocheted variegated green layette set. I plan on donating the baby sets to Carewear, a preemie/newborn charity group online.
will try and give you an update off all the things that are going on. I have some pictures to add and also a lot to write about since I moved here….
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