Yarn goodies

A friend of a friend of mine knows I like yarn. (Yes, that's an understatement!) She had a box of yarn goods that she donated to me. Lots of very cool retro yarn, needles, and hooks.

The box also contained some old knitting books and magazines. There were some very large how-to posters, I guess used for teaching students? Here is how to single crochet. I just love getting old yarn goodies, for FREE!

Cat Love

I made another project from the yarn Colleen gave me. She had some half-finished projects in there too, including this mystery piece:

It looks like maybe two sleeves or the front and back of a small item. The yarn was a mystery too - no ball band - but it was lovely and soft. Then I looked up some inspiration on my Pinterest Board about what to do with old sweaters.

I decided to rip back the two pieces so they were the same height, then bound off each one. I sewed up the sides, stuffed it, made ears, defined the neck, gave him ears and a face, and finished off with a scarf. Ta - da - a cat!

I called this blog post "Cat Love" because he's a nice shade of red and it's close to Valentines Day.

Hello Ducky

In this post, I blogged about getting some vintage yarn from Colleen. See that bag in the front, with the yellow, blue and orangey-red yarn in it?

Well I made my first finished object, this ducky. I had made another one last fall and liked how he turned out. He's a pretty happy ducky!

Vintage Yarn

My dear friend Colleen is downsizing her house and getting rid of her yarn stash. She's been telling me about this yarn haul, and we finally had a chance to meet up for the yarn pass-off. Just LOOk at this haul!

Vintage yarn that she tells me she hasn't touched in years.

What to make? So many possibilities!

And look, she also included a pile of magazine books and patterns. I love old school patterns, I find them way easier to understand.

She put in a couple of UFOs, like this thick wool sweater. Or maybe it's a vest?

And look at this project.

She started it maybe 20 years ago and joked that I should finish it. I was eager to complete it but then I saw the pattern - it's WAY to hard for me! Well maybe not. But my gosh, look at that detail.

Her intarsia stitches are perfect! I should take a crack at finishing it because it would be a freakin' masterpiece!