Textileophile

 Hey there blog, I keep thinking there's gonna be a good time to blog, or I'll feel it.  I think I have the summer blues?  or maybe it's just the political climate and loss of pocket friend just completely sucking the joy out of my life right now. I don't actually have an enormous amount lot to talk about or share.  surprise surprise.  But, there is some, so I'll get on it. I finished my Hawaii socks: Not a lot to share about it. This is the typical 64 stitch, eye of partridge heel.  The difference is, I suppose in the way the yarn was dyed and sent to me.  It's dyed and wound so that you have two perfectly matching socks at the end of it.  It's a feature of Must Stash yarns, and I can't recommend them enough if you wanted to treat yourself.  I think that I'm going to make a pair of shorties with the remaining yarn, probably give them to my MIL. Somewhere in there I casted on the hat that I spun that yarn for and finished it: This was a simple, strai

 Ok, so my moods have been up and down the last week or so since the loss of our dear pocket friend, Arayti.  I've still been crafting every day, that goes without saying. A mutual friend sent me a bit of Arayti's famous Cormo fleece.  Arayti had been sharing it far and wide since it's acquisition several years ago, and we fondly referred to it as Pebbles the Wonder Cormo!  I was next in line to get some when she fell sick 7 months ago.  I wasn't really put out about that specifically, there is plenty of wool in the world, but I did lament the loss of that connection to her.  Anyway, that friend decided to share some of her part of Pebbles, and I got it in the mail on Monday.  Tuesday I spent the whole day with it: This was washed overnight, btw.  If I knew more about the whole process, I would have washed it again, and possibly a third time.  but it was fine.  It just had a lot of lanolin.  Lanolin is the oil that sheep produce to keep their wool healthy.  It's gre

 I finished my new mushroom bag the other day: here's a close up of the embroidery: I like the bag a lot.  More than the first one, because I think the colors suit the embroidery that much more.  More evocative of the forest and autumn. But alas, dear readers, I have some very sad news. A beloved member of LSG, Arayti, died yesterday morning.  It was a very abrupt, sudden loss.  A lot of us in the crafting world are deeply hurting and saddened by this turn of events.  She was a lovely, wonderful person.  Words really cannot get across how special she meant to everyone she interacted with.  She was a light. She will be deeply missed. I wrote to a friend yesterday: "I remade my lost mushroom bag. I am inclined to say that I wish we could gather up all the good things to remake our arayti and then we'll find her there. but that's silly. you can remake mushroom bags, you cannot remake friend."  Hold your loved ones tight and tell people close to you that you love