Alpacas

I was very fortunate to be invited to the Todaro Family Reunion last weekend, and meet some wonderful people, alpacas, and buy one of Maria Finegan's first skeins. They have a beautiful farm and gorgeous alpacas!

I keep trying to add a link to their website here, but I don't see it when I post. So here it is, sorry it's not "linked".
www.alpacasofmarbleridge.com

I Won, Twice!

I actually won for my photo entries with the apples and the dragons (see post below)! There were so many beautiful shawls created in this knit-along. I won patterns for Liz Abinante's Citizen Shawl & Traveling Scarf. Yay!

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Spring Knits

I've been having fun working with some awesome natural fiber yarns that I picked up while on the Northern NJ Yarn Crawl. Here are some pics of the projects I've completed (before summer starts and I can't sit still long enough to knit!)

Above is a neck wrap make with bamboo yarn which has a small thread twisted around it to give it a little shine. It's so warm!

This was my first attempt at a tank top. I love the styling and the bamboo blend yarn.

(It was too chilly on photo day to model it without the shirt underneath.)

And THIS is knitted with an awesome 100% cotton yarn that was spun in Chile, goes from thin to chunky, and was hand dyed. It's so "me" that I called the shop I got it from and bought all that they had left. Stay tuned for pics of my Green High Line wrap, knitted from this Nature Cotton.

Clue 2 Photo

I've been working on my first knit-a-long (KAL) which is a Mystery Shawl. I have no idea what it's going to look like when finished. There's a photo contest for each weekly clue, and we're supposed to be creative with it. So here's the finished knitting for clue #2 and the photo I submitted.