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another tentative little leap into the world of small studio project blogs.

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scarf progress, day one. 

i don't know if i'm knitting this faster than usual because it's Christmas season and that means list in the shop as much as possible before the 15th or so, or if i'm knitting it much slower than usual because it's holiday season, but anyway it's been a nice surprise: i'm spoiled by gentle one-person dye operations where a roving is presumably given its color in an incubator designed to nurture rare fragile baby birds, and it drafts perfectly, but this was pretty stuck at first and i thought i might have to give it up as near-felt. maybe even really felt. massive predrafting was involved, but the yarn and color are making me pretty happy, so it balances out. 

(it's malabrigo nube. i got a few colors to play around with, and i don't think the drafting stubbornness/stickiness is a problem with all of them. i'll find out soon.) 

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hat two: sunset colors.

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it's the first hat of Christmas, da doot doot doot doo doo. winter tea hat features soft fleece-white merino wool and tea-stained silken ribbon. it's an earflap style bonnet, which to me has a vague vintage feeling even when it ends up with more of a a timeless rustic forest-dryad look. wear it while listening to Icelandic music. 

available at http://awkward.etsy.com, for the cold or anyone who knows a cold person and needs a present for them. 

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sundog on 12/3/13 on Flickr.

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always winter, never christmas! on Flickr.

handspun yarn - hand-carded merino wool, silk noil, and nylon sparkle. pretty nice! it’s lofty, a dk to worsted weight, and available at http://awkward.etsy.com.

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more handspun! this one will show up in the shop as a hat. soon. 

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the mountain madman.

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a pretty big shop update - brand new handspun yarn! 

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my favorite (apart from the one i'm knitting): dark purple, brighter purple, blue, gold. self-striping, about 220 yards, which should be more than enough for a basic grown-up hat, or enough for two little kid or baby beanies. 

available right now at awkward - 

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new yarn - light, fine, plied handspun, this links to the sky blue plus purple plus white stripes, on the left. 

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(Yarns spun from 11-4-13 to 11-10-13. Also up at 31sweaters.tumblr.com - follow me there if you like. :) )

So! Here is my yarn club Fancy Promotion, lifted text for text from one of my listings over at http://awkward.etsy.com. 

If I get 10 new subscribers to any of my Yarn Club variations between November 11 and November 30 (for the club starting December 1), I'm gonna draw a name from a hat and send a bonus skein out to someone lucky. If you subscribe to the One for Me 12 for You bonus-skein club and I draw your name, you'd get a bonus bonus skein - 14 skeins total! 

You can also order & be eligible for the yarn drawing via 31sweaters.bigcartel.com - I might even prefer it! 

Remember, this totally only works if I have enough people subscribing to my handspun yarn-of-the-month club, so it's not the kind of thing you necessarily want to keep under your hat. Although you could make a hat. It is hat related in that way I guess. 

/shameless self-promotion, although I think it is good work and worth promoting, and am thus conflicted, etc. etc. 

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some yarn bits. on Flickr.

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handspun baker’s dozen on Flickr.

i might try to sound flippant when i write about this, but i’m *really* excited about my yarn club.

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yarn-o-the-month subscriptions! 

limited edition; get 'em here. 

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handspun, handknit. cloudy-soft merino wool bound together with help from a thread of handspun golden honey silk. so soft. 

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finished the winterpearl sweater's knitting, the exuberant experiment one, and now i don't know what to do next even though i have plenty of things to do next (weave the ends on the sweater, for example). this days-getting-shorter inertia thing has been rough on me. 

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doll’s shawls 1: jacob ombre on Flickr.

did i show you this? the yarn is laceweight i spun from a little scrap of pure wool, right from the fleece. the ombre grey effect is completely natural, without dyes of any kind - it’s just wool from a grey-and-white sheep, that’s all. i might give this away on my new blog-site - it’s a tiny wisp of rustic wool, but too nice to leave neglected, where it is. do you know any tiny dolls in cold weather, anyone who takes proper style photographs of blythe-scale poppets? or any wee people?