I have a problem. Not quite an AA style problem but it might get there soon. I have a problem with a color way. Holi Festival by MadlineTosh. I mean I have only purchased 2 skins in the 80/10/10 Sport which is amazing, but I just got a skein of the Pashmina which is epic.

What amazes me is the difference in the color ways. All of MadlineTosh is hand dyed and when you get more than one skein, you can see it. It looks like like a painting. Each stroke is different. Painting with dye on fiber, the skeins all tell a different story. Its beautiful.

I'm not sure what I am going to do with all this loveliness, but I am going to guess that the pashmina will become a shawl and the DK might be a cowl or wrap. Only time will tell.

That Time I Won A Blue Ribbon

A very exciting thing happened this weekend. I got to go to brunch.

Well, besides that.

After months of planning, swatching, frogging, knitting, purling, and charting. I won the Blue Ribbon at the DC State Fair.

Let me tell you, I went a little nuts with this entry, but I had a goal of doing a color work mitten with some sort of iconic DC image on the front. I went though ideas with the Capitol and White House. Or the constitution or an image of the Lincoln Memorial.

I need up going with the Capitol and I used the DC Flag for the cuff of the mitten. The palms use a traditional Nordic pattern. And some stars and stripes on the thumb for, you know, America!

The pattern will be up on Raverly when I get it together for anyone who might want a pair of their own.