The yarn is fingering weight-Painted Sock Too (The Painted Sheep), and I used 4.6mm (US 7) circular needles. The yarn is beautiful-some of my favorite shades of blue-but the variegation does hide the pattern a bit. I'm planning to knit this pattern again in a solid color, or a gradual color change.
I think that I'll wear this to the Sunday's knitting group. It may be a smaller group tomorrow, as quite a few of the regulars will be at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. The CT Sheep and Wool was last weekend, and although a small show, was lots of fun. I went with Virginia, who patted and admired the angora rabbits. We missed the sheep to shawl competition, but saw the judging. We also saw some knitters from our area group, and met a couple of the spinners, including the Painted Sheep, who handpainted the yarn noted above. As I'm watching my spending, I only bought a few things- an Ashford spindle and roving set from Rowanwood Farm , three skeins of laceweight yarn (100% coopworth) from Short and Sweet Sheep Farm in a lovely, natural brown color, and a silver shawl pin from Leslie Wind. Hmmm...was this really watching my spending? Well....it was a lot better than driving down to Maryland, staying overnight, and also shopping! The best part of the festival was meeting a nice group of knitters from Massachusetts, who invited Virginia and me to sit down and showed us both how to use the drop spindle. It's a bit harder than it looks! I knit on my leaf lace shawl for a little bit, too.
