Almost at the end of my year in America, I suddenly thought I should be blogging about my travels here! Yesterday saw us travelling back from beautiful and sleepy (at this time of year!) Cape Cod, where we spent the weekend, and where I visited the impressively well-stocked Black Purls Yarn store in East Sandwich. I bought two skeins of "Sugar Rush" in white there. Wonderfully soft, I had never seen this sugar-derived yarn before. Normally I buy local yarns on my travels, but if I can't find any I look for something unusual, and this fit the bill.
At the airport and on the flight home I worked on a pair of summer ankle "sports" style socks in Shibui Sock (bought from one of my current LYSs, Stitch DC), using my usual sock pattern, the Vogue Universal Sock Calculator and adapting it to make ankle socks. The Shibui is very pretty, not quite a solid, but a little unforgiving to work with - and I am using Kollage square needles which should be giving me a more even knitting texture than usual (thanks for the needles, Janie!).
At home in the evening I managed four rows of the Frost Flowers top before my shoulder starting aching and I had to stop, sadly.
Our next trip is Maine, stay tuned...
Cape Cod - Dexter's Grist Mill
Black Purls Yarn
Shibui Sock
Frost Flowers Top (available as a free download on Ravelry)
1 comment:
Wow - looks amazing! Would love to head back to Cape Cod...
Sugar yarn, sounds interesting. pleased the needles are working well for you :)
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