Puff magic

Before with marbles in place ready for felting

Lightly felted and so very light, 25 grams

My Angel Puff Scarf is complete. I am really happy how this turned out using Naturally Mist yarn which is a 1ply lace weight 80% super fine kid mohair and 20% acrylic yarn made in New Zealand and is around $7 rather than $20 odd for Rowan Kidsilk. I knitted with 4mm needles and it turned out quite a bit smaller than the pattern stated, not sure if it was the yarn or me! Anyway I decided to use less puffs of a smaller size than a macadamia nut and not felt it as much as the original so the scarf might end up being a useful size. So this morning I placed 30 vase marbles in a regular pattern on the lower edges of my scarf and secured them with 30 clear snagless hair elastics and felted the scarf in the washing machine with a pair of jeans for agitation, it took about 15 minutes to felt. I think the Lady with the Lamp really likes this heavenly little neck warmer.

For those who need to know this is shade 602 which doesn't seem to be a current colour on Naturally's page.

Heavenly blue mauve

I love this colour so calming..............and I need some of that NOW!! I started on this little Angel Puff Scarf from Nicki Epstein's book last night, it is also in the current YARN magazine as well. I couldn't source Rowan Kidsilk Haze around here so am trialling a lace weight mohair and if it works out I will tell you what it is. Really looking forward to the felting of this little scarf, just need to find 4 dozen macadamia nuts.

Random things

Finally, time to sit down and let you see what I've been up to in the last couple of weeks, I've become a very seldom blogger. Not good! The good intentions are there but the light is terrible in the late afternoon for photographing anything when I get home from work and well I just seem to be too busy or tired.

Anyway, I'm pleased to show you I have been teaching myself to crochet very basic squares in 4ply Heirloom cotton in lovely French country inspired colours, maybe a nice lightweight throw for our bed in the making once I work out how to join them all up in the easiest possible way. It did take me 3 nights and much cursing to follow the crochet pattern, stitch instructions and trying to make sense of the diagrammatic pattern...................patience is one of my talents I'm pleased to say and I did eventually get it, now I just need to get into it before I forget how.

My mum knitted up an Angel Puff Scarf but was very worried about the felting process, she handed over the macadamia nuts and her knitting and left me too it. It just seems torturous to felt this gorgeous 1ply lace weight mohair in the machine with a pair of old Levi's, lucky she wasn't present.............but all ended well with a wonderful light and fluffy unique scarf which she'll have to put away for next winter as the warm weather has hit us with an avengence over the weekend.

Finally a very zoomed snap of our gorgeous Ruby dog through a very dirty kitchen window early one morning. Ruby has taken to sleeping on the raised garden bed outside Surfer Boys bedroom window even though it poured rain all that night, she just has to be near her family all of the time. She does have a deluxe kennel inside the garage with a big soft and warm blanket. The other thing she wouldn't want to miss is the very early dark'o'clock run down to the beach with Surfer Boy on his yard waste bike to check the surf ready for a before school surf or swim as the case may be. Ruby has turned one and she is a big part of our family whether we like it or not, she really makes her presence known!