Brushed Mohair Shawl with Tassels
Approximate size: 54 inches wide, 38 inches long at longest point (measurements do not include tassel)
2 skeins of Three Waters Farm Brushed Mohair yarn, 250 skeins each.
Size 11 needle
CO 4 stitches.
Row 1: Knit 2, yarn over, knit to end of row.
Row 2: Knit 2, yarn over, knit to end of row.
Continue in this manner until you have knit one skein. Before beginning second skein, make 3 tassels and set aside. Attach new leader, and continue knitting as before, knitting until shawl is approximately 54 inches wide.
Bind off loosely. (It is helpful to bind off with a larger needle to keep it loose. We used a size 15 needle.)
Enjoy!
May 2nd, 2012
Brushed Mohair Boucle Shawl/Scarf
Approximately 14 inches wide and 70 inches long
One skein Three Waters Farm Brushed Mohair Boucle, 250 yards
One skein Three Waters Farm Brushed Mohair, 250 yards
Size 11 needle
CO 34 stitches with the Brushed Mohair Boucle.
Knit 2 rows.
Switch to Brushed Mohair yarn.
*Knit 1 row, double wrapping each stitch
Knit 1 row, knitting into one wrap and letting the other wrap drop.
Switch back to Brushed Mohair Boucle yarn.
Knit 2 rows.*
Repeat from * to * until shawl/scarf is your desired length.
Knit two rows Boucle; bind off in Boucle
Behold!
May 2nd, 2012
SUPERLONG SCARF WRAP
Materials: One Three Waters Farm Superfluity Kit
Size 15 circular needle (24 inch or longer)
Every row is a knit row. (Garter stitch)
Loosely CO 100 stitches with the worsted weight yarn or the Thick n’ Thin yarn.
Knit one row.
At beginning of next row, cut the old yarn, leaving an 8 inch tail. Tie new yarn (whichever color/type you prefer) to old yarn and snug the knot. Knit one row.
Continue in this way, changing yarn every row until the scarf/wrap is the width you want.
Bind off loosely.
Behold!
May 1st, 2012
This mother was not at all pleased that we plucked her little lamb out of the flock for an extra look-over. You can see her in the far left of the frame, giving Stephen the evil eye, while her lamb gives her the “please save me” look. The moment Stephen put this guy on the ground, they headed in the opposite direction.
April 1st, 2012
BRUSHED MOHAIR RUFFLE SHAWL
3 SKEINS THREE WATERS FARM BRUSHED MOHAIR
SIZE 10 needles
Final size: Center panel without ruffles, 54 inches long, 21 inches wide. Ruffles are 4” wide.
kfb = increase by knitting in the front and the back of the stitch.
C/O 72 sts on size 10 needles. Work in stockinette for 266 rows. Put sts on holder.
With right side facing, pick up & knit 233 sts along one long side (7 sts for every 8 rows).
Row 1 and all odd rows: purl.
Row 2: k2, *kfb, k6, repeat from * to end.
Row 4: k2, *kfb, k7, repeat from * to end.
Row 6: k2, *kfb, k8, repeat from * to end.
Row 8: k2, *kfb, k9, repeat from * to end.
Row 10: k2, *kfb, k10, repeat from * to end.
Row 12: k2, *kfb, k11, repeat from * to end.
Row 14: k2, *kfb, k12, repeat from * to end.
Row 16: k2, *kfb, k13, repeat from * to end.
Row 18: k2, *kfb, k14, repeat from * to end.
Row 20: Bind off.
Repeat for other long side.
Return sts from holder to needle, and with right side facing knit 1 row. Work Rows 1-20 as above.
On other short end, with right side facing, pick up & knit 72 sts. Work Rows 1-20 as above.
Sew edges of ruffles together at corners. Weave in ends.
Enjoy!
May 2nd, 2011
The Bradford Pear is in full bloom today. All week, I’ve watched this tree mull over its options. We’ve had cool days and freezing nights, enough to induce a spring bloomer to reconsider its position. In spite of this, every day this heedless tree was a little more brazen and showing a little more bling than the day before. Yesterday, it simply threw caution to the wind and blossomed entirely. I enjoy the Bradford Pear, but I find it a little unrestrained.
Bradford Pear
I am partial to the Deciduous Magnolia, from its compelling pussy-willow like buds to its stately rose and pink blossoms. It typically demonstrates more prudence than the Bradford Pear. I like that, being in want of a little more prudence myself. I noticed a few timid buds opening this week, but the effect was more bashful-child-peering-through-the-fence-at-the-party than Baby-I’ve-got-something-outrageous-to-show-you. But with things in the neighborhood heating up the way they are, the Deciduous Magnolia decided to join in.
Deciduous Magnolia
Our young Keifer pear trees are showing some adolescent derring-do, but I am hoping that they reconsider. After all, if we get a freeze hard enough to shut down the whole blooming party, the Keifer’s will lose more than just their blossoms, they will lose their fruit.
March 13th, 2011
As close as she is to delivering her kids, Mae Mae has still made a point of steering herself into the milk room at every milking, even though she has no need yet to be milked. It is a surprise to me — she has not made the milking room her habit this late in her pregnancies, but whatever her reasons for doing so now, it is a pleasure to see her maneuver her great bulk with such spring and spirit into her place on the milk stand.
The great size of her takes up a lot of space and so I have been leaning back against her as I milk her grandaughter Tweedle. Mae Mae doesn’t seem to mind, intent as she is on her eating, and it is a comfort to lean up against so capable a mother as she. It’s cozy and milking can be so dreamy, especially first thing in the morning early in the spring; it’s cold, I’m sleepy, the day’s not yet begun, the season’s barely begun, but for just this moment, things are going just as I wish they would.
As the goats are peacefully eating, the rhythm of milking is my meditation and leaning against Mae Mae is my comfort. While leaning against her, I sometimes feel against my back a sharp tap, a swift kick, or a larger, more sinuous movement, and then, just as I turn my attention to savoring both the surprise and the pleasure of this, it’s gone and I’m left with the feeling that I am at the edge of a dream and something magical I’ve barely seen has vanished before I’m sure that I’ve seen anything at all.
Any day now….
March 8th, 2011
Pensively waiting,
She quietly counts heartbeats.
Spring will be here soon.
March 6th, 2011
I have been ruminating over the idea that within the barn is an ever-evolving landscape but then I decided that I did not really know what a landscape was. After visiting the Encyclopedia Britannica, I now know that a landscape endures “progressive changes in topography” towards an “altered form.” “The changes can only occur in response to energy available to do work within the geomporphic system in question…*.”
Sounds about right.
*http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/329343/landform-evolution
March 2nd, 2011
Coming in like a lion, our first spring storm brought us high winds, rain, thunder, and lightning, but it left us with crisp air, bright light and the other half of the proverb.
- Out Like a Lamb, March 1, 2011
March 1st, 2011
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