Today is my one year blogiversary. It’s been a very good, very fibery year. I’ve met so many wonderful knitters, knitters I had “known” from reading their blogs forever. I’ve been to two of the best sheep and wool shows ever, and somehow how feel more validated than ever in my knitterly pursuits. I feel like I’m giving something back for all the years I read blogs before I had my own. My stash has also grown by leaps and freakin bounds, it’s really not even funny. I think I’m 5 big storage tubs of yarn strong at this point. Not to mention my spinning stash. Considering my already overflowing stash, I went and bought myself a blogiversary present, less than a week after Rhinebeck, even. I must be drunk. It’s the lanolin, I’m telling you!
Mmm. All those wonderful green skeins up there are 6 skeins of Araucania Nature Wool, color 52. I really didn’t plan on buying any yarn I swear (famous last words, right?). I went to my localist of yarn shops yesterday, I hadn’t been over there in a long time, and still riding a Rhinebeck high, I wanted another fiber fix. I saw this color, and I could not walk away from it. I have a serious thing for green, you know. I can honestly say, I have never impulse bought enough yarn for a whole sweater. Ever. I usually have a plan, or at least a sweater in mind. If I hadn’t bought it yesterday, I would have been right back over there today to get it. Each skein has 242 yards, so 6 skeins is plenty for a Julia sized sweater, even though I would not have a problem if I needed to go buy more!
That orange skein is more Whiskey in a color I didn’t already own. The last time I visited that shop they didn’t carry it yet. So it came home with me, along with 2 skeins of Lorna’s Lace’s Shepard sock in “Vera”. I will totally credit Michelle for the enablement of this purchase, her and her gorgeous Clapotis knit in the Shepards worsted “Vera” that she wore at Rhinebeck. So I have quite a bit of knitting to do.
I came home and immediately knit a swatch with the Nature Wool.
Look at it. Could it be a more lovely shade of green?!
Before I can really get into this yarn though, I need to make some serious progress on my Whiskey sweater. Right now I have a sleeve and and most of a front knit up. I can. not. wait. to get to the fairisle part of the front, I love the blue, but I need to knit with another color. This project is fun, but such a small gauge knit. I want this sweater though, I will not stop. So this has been my main project lately, and probably will be for awhile.
I have only good things to say about this yarn, I really love it.
So yeah, this has been one hellova good year.
Mmmmm, green wool – my favorite thing ever!
Happy Blogiversary! And yup, those fibre festivals? We sure picked good ones.
happy blogiversary!
That green is perfect for a blogiversary gift to yourself. Lovely!
Happy Blogiversary!!! I bought green sweater yarn today too — green apple colored Cascade 220 for a Rogue. Must be something in the post-Rhinebeck air . . .
Happy blogiversary and such yummy yarn. I just love the naturewool in that green, I’ve never seen it before.
Oh and I must tell you that your pics of the whiskey yarn are soo enabling…I just bought a few balls and can’t wait to see them knit up.
Happy Blogiversary! That green yarn is luscious, love the color. And I’m quite the fan of Vera myself.
Happy blogiversary! Wishing you many more. What are you going to make with the green yarn? I’m using that exact yarn for Ariane (sp?) and i love it.
Happy Blogiversary!! Your yarn colors are gorgeous!!
Joining the chorus of “happy blogiversary”s! Here’s to more great fibery years.
Yea for the blog birthday-love reading it! So that green yarn is awesome-I think I need some for a clapotis!? Where can it be found?? I love the yellowish colors in it-yummy. BTW, yesterday I tried to buy some yarn at your site, but forgot my password and requested it, but I never recieved an e-mail. Just wanted to let you know in case of computer problems. Will there be more self-striping soon?:)
I do love what that green is doing in the swatch. I like that allover kind of variegation…semisolid? And happy blogiversary! It’s good to have you here!
Happy Blog-versary!
What a gorgeous green! You’re making me wanna go out and get some!
Happy Blogiversary!
Happy blogiversary, lady! It’s been lovely getting to hang out with you at the fiber festivals. When are you moving to NY?! 😉
I think that orange whiskey may be the color of my Jodi Green sweater… Now I just have to decide on a nice, contrasty color.
Happy Bloggyversary!
Happy blogiversary! I have really enjoyed looking at your yarn dying this year, and hope for more creative inspiration for years to come!
Congratulations on your
Blogiversary. I for one am delighted to have “found” you both for the reading of your blog and for the lovely skeins of yarn you have dyed. I have enjoyed both greatly. BTW – should you tire of the green yarn it IS my favorite color. I thought not. 🙂
Happy Bloggiversary, sweet one! Your smile just lights up a room.
Happy year!!!! We’re glad you’re here! And that green is miraculous.
Happy blog birthday!
In support of you finishing the whiskey sweater, I shall save
allmost of my drooling over that LUSCIOUS green for a later post. 🙂Happy blogiversary, sweetie! I love that green as well, but I’m dying to see the fair isle part of the Whiskey sweater!
(mmmm…Vera. Happy to help.)
Happy Blogivarsary!!!
That is a beautiful green – I may have to expand my color palatte – I never tend to look at the greens! Orange however – I love orange!
The sweater is coming along great. The Whiskey really shows the cables@!
Happy happy blogiversary! Yarn is the traditional gift, isn’t it?
Happy blogiversary! That green yarn IS the most incredibily perfect green yarn, indeed. And I can’t wait to see all the progress pix as you make your Whiskey sweater.
A girl after my own heart with that green! Happy blogiversary
Hope the next year is just as good!
Happy one year! And that green. . . irresistable. I’d have had to get it too. Actually maybe I will. . .
Happy Blogiversary!
Love all the yarns especially the green. So pretty.
Hope you have another great year of blogging.
you know what they say about the green ones….hehehe.
yeah, i kept telling myself “no” when it came to the pomatomus pattern. do yourself a favor and just don’t even look at the yarn you have in mind because all it will be saying when you put it together with the needles and pattern is “YESSSSSSSSS!!! sucker.” hahaha
I am a little late to the party, but I can still throuw in my HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY, right? 🙂 I love reading about your projects, and seeing your lovely dyes and fibers!
I knit a scarf for my sis out of the Araucania Nature Wool are immediately fell in love. It is great yarn, and that green you go is delicious!
Happy blogiversary!!! And damn, you sure know how to celebrate. 🙂