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Quite a lot of yarn

But first, a baby. I adore it when people send me pictures of their baby's wearing the baby gifts I make. This is Pen, wearing the Gidday Baby I made last June.
I mentioned the other day that I had one last yarn delivery coming. That was sort of true:, but I also just received April's Stranded in Oz Club  package, and she sent me a bonus skein for using the first club skein!
The colour is nicer in real life.
The club yarn is a light worsted, although it seems more like an 8 ply to me and came like this: 

 But it's not a multi coloured yarn, it's three small skeins. Designed for Elizabeth Zimmerman's May Mitred Mittens. Perfect, and I'm so excited to cast these on.


I also got a Knit Picks delivery.
Yarn for Kate Davies Sleeve Island, that I am going to dye deep teal and light turquoise and it's going to me like wearing a lagoon:

Yarn for the Tracery vest, that I have been wanting to knit for years, but I couldn't get the the right yarn - so dye it yourself, right?

 And a couple of bonus sock yarns, just because I could.

So now I am fully stocked, (with 18,626 meters of yarn, eeek) and off to spend the rest of this lock down knitting!
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  1. Jeannie Gray Knits26 April, 2020

    Awesome yarn for the mittens! I've knit several pair of them and love them. Can't wait to see the "lagoon" outcome. :)

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    1. Sharondoubleknit26 April, 2020

      I'm just loving this club, because it's really made me dig into Elizabeth Zimmerman's patterns, and she is so clever, and fun to knit.

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