No, not on the ground but that’s the name of a new knitting pattern. Helen Stewart of Curious Handmade designs such lovely shawls and wraps. Some of her patterns are my favorites of all the shawls I’ve made. She does Knitvent . . her take on the Advent knitting. This is the first year I’ve purchased her Knitvent series. The first one is called Dust of Snow and it came out this morning. Many dyers will dye up special “Advent” packages which contain 25 mini-skeins.
Miss Babs’ 2016 Advent Kit
The skeins are often wrapped and numbered. Last year I bought two kits to make Ambah O’Brien’s ADVENTurous Wrap. I love it and I want to finish it. I’m about halfway done with it.
I also bought Sunshine Yarn’s kit for the same pattern. I wasn’t sure which one I would like best but in the end, I didn’t want to spoil the surprise so I started with Miss Babs’ kit and never opened the Sunshine Yarn kit.
Sunshine Yarn Advent Kit 2017
When I saw that the first Knitvent pattern this year called for an Advent kit, I knew I had one that would work so I dug it out and that’s what I’m using.
The pattern recommends holding the yarn together with Shibui’s Silk Cloud and it calls for four skeins. By the time I decided to do this, just about every skein of Silk Cloud in the world had been purchased. Not one of the four places where I purchase most of my yarn had four skeins of a neutral colored Silk Cloud. I began googling, looking for any shop anywhere that might have four skeins. I found one that had four skeins of Ash, which is a neutral gray so I purchased it. Then I saw that they “usually” ship within 5 days. It’s been well over 5 days and it hasn’t shipped so I contacted them and she said they were waiting for more to arrive any day because the four skeins were not the same dye lot and obviously different colors. I appreciate that. I had two skeins of Fog so I ordered two more skeins from another shop but they wrote me and said there was a mixup and they actually didn’t have any skeins of Fog. I found another shop that had four skeins of Ivory. It isn’t the color I had hoped to use but I ordered it and hopefully it will be here Monday.
As you might imagine, I have projects that I can work on between now and Monday! 🙂
vivoaks says
I was startled at first when I saw your heading!! I was thinking, “How could they have snow already in Texas when we haven’t had one snowflake yet in PA???” (Now I’ve probably brought on the snow for us that much sooner!!) Anyway, here was an opportunity to stash-hunt, to see if you had 4 skeins of anything that would work! 🙂 Yes, I know…it’s much easier to just buy new, but in this instance maybe not!! 🙂 Enjoy all that new yarn when it arrives.
Judy Laquidara says
This was four skeins of a specialty yarn – something I don’t keep in my stash. It’s a mohair lacy type yarn – something you would carry along with with another yarn but not hold by itself.
dezertsuz says
The colors are so pretty that I will be happy to follow your progress. I’m proud of you for not ordering a NEW advent kit! LOL