School holidays are at an end. At the beginning of the holidays a friend and I took our kids to the zoo - they had an amazing exhibit to celebrate 150 years of Melbourne Zoo with 50 decorated Mali elephants which are being auctioned off to help conservation work at the zoo. Most of them were painted, but I HAD to put up a photo of this - love it!! A knitted elephant!
The second installment of Christmas Gift Yarn Club was shipped last week - Boomerang Shawl and a skein of the new lace weight Baby Alpaca/Silk yarn.
I knitted the laceweight yarn (which at 800m per skein is bordering on cobweb weight) using 2 strands which gives a gorgeous draped effect. A skein of Charlisa Yarns Baby Alpaca/Silk laceweight yarn gives enough meterage for 2 shawls knitted with a single strand, or one knitted 2 stranded. You could equally use a luxury sock-yarn such as Charlisa Yarns 100% Australian Organic Merino for the shawl.
The shawl will be launched to non-Christmas Gift Yarn Club members on 1st April 2013. All patterns for Yarn Clubs are exclusive to members for 6 months.
I am aiming to be a stallholder at St Andrews Market this coming Saturday 13th October providing its not a rainy day. If you're local do pop along to say hello. All of my yarns will be taken off Etsy on the Friday and any unsold will be re-loaded on the Sunday - so if there's a particular colourway you're keen on it might be a good idea to nab it before I take it to market.
Happy Knitting!
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