Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Two Feet

 I cast on for a pair of women's socks with the newly dyed yarn.
64 stitches on a number 1 needle.
Socks for Bill ( a size 15 shoe) on #5 needles over 60 stitches;
this is the yarn from Russia--a type of Mohair but a single ply.
Bill always wears through the heels of the socks I make him so I am going to sew some
deerskin to the heel to see if it helps them last longer !

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

From Russia with Love!

 A few months ago, my daughter and her family took a trip to visit their missionary in Irkutsk, Russia.
If you are like me, you need a map to see where Irkutsk is....
 It was a wonder to get updates from them through texts-we were 12 hours apart 
so had to coordinate communication so we could have conversations!
 Today, I received a package of souvenirs;
my daughter had saved them because we were supposed to take a trip to Georgia to see them
last month but I wasn't feeling well enough to travel.,
But look at this yarn!!!!
At the open air market, they met an older women who spun yarn 
from her own little flock of Kaza--nanny goats literally. 
 It feels like mohair but oh, so soft!
 I mean, look at that halo!
The wool is single ply-I can't wait to swatch this!
 Bill was gifted socks made of camel fiber--the man selling them reminded Marsel of her Dad!
(Loud and telling corny jokes to the market shoppers!)
After trying them on, he left them on the floor where Nyki promptly killed them 
and then laid on them.
 After she walked away, Lena moved in for her turn.  She took a few tentative sniffs, jumped and then settled down for a nap!

STRAIGHT ON FROM HERE

Completed quilt, 57" x 68" I did stitched a few of these blocks together;  the one on the right, I did first and didn't do too...