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I have been through an especially dry season for knitting, but am happy to say I have emerged from this to the other side at long last. I had started a laceweight scarf of Misti Alpaca, but lace knitting was not a very good match with what was going on in my life, what with Bill’s surgery and recovery (he’s going back to work this week, so he has made great progress from where he was immediately post op). My mind finally calmed enough to finish the project:
Blocking was a bit difficult, but it surely ended up pretty, or so I think! The pattern is Seafoam (can be found on Ravelry) by my friend, Ruth, and is really quite easy, if you don’t have eleventy-zillion things running around in your head to distract you. It’s lighter than a feather and tremendously soft!! I am glad I made it.
I just finished an awesome shawl made from some of my handspun merino/tencel as well. I have not blocked it yet nor taken a decent picture, so that will have to wait for another post.
Anyone growing up in the 50s and 60s, living in the South and who did any car traveling will likely remember being on the lookout for those rare, but highly sought after, Stuckey’s signs. A chance to get out of the car, get some candy or something else to eat, a hot dog, maybe even some breakfast, use the restroom, and most important of all to a kiddo under 10…. TOYS!!! Once in awhile, though, if you were traveling through Georgia or South Carolina, you would be fooled by a pretender to the kid-mecca, Rawl’s. I would always be so mad every time I saw one of those signs. The main reason was they used the same color scheme and a similar font to the Stuckey’s signs. My hopes gotten up sky high only to be dashed. Rawl’s did NOT have TOYS, or not that I know of. They most likely had heavenly candy… Who knows. Anyhow, for the first time since we have been living here, I notice on US 17 about 8 miles south of our house and about 2 miles north of Woodbine, GA, this hiding in the woods.
How could I have traveled this road numerous times and NOT noticed it? Beats me. Some research indicated that the Rawl’s factory was located in Woodbine. Now, how about that? The building also still stands, but no vestiges remain of its former occupation.
Funny thing is, the same week I took this picture, I also passed by Stuckey’s original headquarters in Eastman, GA, now occupied by the Standard Candy Company. See, that competition is still in place, I guess.
Switching gears, here are my yarn singles from the Fiber Candy.
Here is a skein of it, 3 plied. Truly now yarn candy. I spun it semi woolen and fulled it and whacked it around to stabilize the neps in the yarn and to open up its woolen character.
The turquoise/green is more of the same fiber in an alternate colorway.
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