thrums | my life, with needles and thread » merino http://www.timethrums.com/blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:09:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 simplicity http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/07/simplicity/ http://www.timethrums.com/blog/2010/07/simplicity/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:15:53 +0000 Lori http://www.timethrums.com/blog/?p=1216 I don’t remember who made the observation – why did Thoreau say “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”? To be truly simple, shouldn’t he have just said Simplicity!

Anyway, that struck me this morning when I was handwinding a ball of madelinetosh merino, in graphite, for my Mondo Cable Cardigan. The yarn is lofty and soft, and the subtle variation in color that characterizes madelinetosh yarns is physical and lovely. And the resulting ball is beautiful, showing the work of a hand rather than a machine.

madelinetosh merino in graphite

handwound ball of graphite-colored lofty merino

Now and then a moment of simplicity strikes, you know? A moment of just stopping the buzz and noticing. I’m trying to help those moments happen more frequently.

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Continue Reading--28 words totally]]> I just have not had any knitting time for the last couple of weeks; my usually-reliable time (on the subway to/from work) has instead been spent gobbling up the book I’m reading for my book club (Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, quite spectacular). So I’ve been posting all those other things, because (a) I can’t show any photos of the wedding shawl since the bride-to-be reads the blog and I’m surprising her with the specific pattern (hi Marnie!), and (b) how many more posts can I write about the other small things I’m working on, for heaven’s sake!

But finally, I have a post that’s related to the ostensible theme of this blog. A woman on ravelry was selling a bunch of her yarn and fiber, and I scored this:

color: 'tobacco'

It’s 70% merino, 20% cashmere, and 10% silk, and the combination of colors is really beautiful. The photo above is pretty plain and straightforward because I wanted to show all the colors it contains. She originally bought it from Pigeonroof Studios, and my fingers are itching to spin it. Not literally, of course, because this is incredibly soft and lofty fiber.

The next time this appears on my blog, it’ll be yarn. I hope that happens soon.

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