Alaskan Advent-Ewe!

Two Ewes Fiber Adventures

Marsha is home from her Alaskan Advent-Ewe and we have lots to catch up on. Join our discussion of project updates and spinning for our Summer Spin In.

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Marsha’s Projects

Socks: The Artful Ewe Clackamas. Finished first sock and about halfway through leg of second sock.

Emotional Support Chicken: by Annette Corsino. Sweet girl on hold while I was in Alaska.

Poppy Tee: by Jo Cottle. Cast on using Rowan Purelife Revive in the colorway Loam. Picked up in the NoCKRs 2024 destash room. Cast on and worked on this almost exclusively on my Alaska trip. I have completed the yoke and about 5” of the body.

Pinot Noir Purchase Targhee: Started spinning the giant (2.2 pound) ball of Targhee roving I bought from an attendee at last fall’s Fort Worden Knitting Retreat. You know I cannot resist those large balls! The woman I bought it from said she got it from a weaver’s estate. It seems pretty dusty and I was sneezing like crazy last night. I’ll have to wear a mask while spinning.

Kelly’s Projects

Finished: Pride dish towels in German Birdseye weave structure. I used three variegated skeins of fluffy cotton singles plied with a thin thread of something else (polyester or nylon?). For the stripes around these three I used cotton or cottolin yarn in red, orange, green, and blue. I used all those solids as warp and also used a royal blue cotton, a brick red cottolin and some bobbin leftovers from the last project. I ended up with 5 dishtowels and a square. I love these towels and can’t wait to do another stash busting warp like this.

Two skeins of Jazzman (CVM x Merino x Columbia) are finished. I’m in the process of topping off the bobbins before doing more plying. It’s turned out to be a lighter yarn than I expected–fingering weight. It didn’t plump up as much as I thought it would after washing.

Use all the Spinning Tools Challenge: I’ve finished and wound off a second ball of the green singles from the tahkli. I’ve been taking it with me in the car and to dog class where we have a break between classes.

I also spun up small samples (about 6-8 grams) on the other two spindles. Still to go: Charkha, Salish Spinner, Great Wheel, and Norwegian

Found buttons for Marsha’s baby sweater. Have three baby items to make–two for baby boys and one for a baby girl.

Anna sent me information about a colorwork sweater that I should make for myself. It used to be called Choose Your Own Adventure, now called Your Outdoor Adventure.

Summer Spin In

Started Memorial Day - Ends on Labor Day

May 27 - September 2

Two Ewes in Walla Walla, Washington

September 26-30

Alaska Advent-Ewe

Met our ship Noordam in Vancouver, BC

Ketchikan: Took a city tour and visited Potlatch Park.

Juneau: It was pouring rain but we did a city tour and drove to Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center and hiked to the waterfall and to the glacier viewpoint.

Changing Tides (their yarn is One of a Kind)

• One of a Kind - sock - 80/20 merino/nylon

• One of a Kind - lace - alpaca/merino/silk/yak

• One of a Kind - mini skeins - 80/20 SW merino/nylon - “Midnight Sun Memories”

Skagway: Had a short city tour, visited the cemetery and drove over White Pass into Canada.

Aurora Yarns

• Raven Frog Fibers - Marvelous Merino worsted - 100 SW merino - “Totem Spirit” (3X)

• Nunavut Qiviut - lace - 30/60 arctic fox/superfine merino - natural color white

• Aurora Yarns - lace - 100 qiviut

Quilt Alaska: Bought fabric squares with Alaskan flowers prints to make napkins.

Anchorage: Visited the Musk Ox Farm and the Spirit Houses, an Athabascan/Russian Orthodox cemetery.

Food: Tequila 61, Whisky & Ramen

Musk Ox Farm - lace - 50/50 qiviut/silk

The Fireweed Studio - project bag with musk ox print

Wooly Mammoth (the shop is located inside Cabin Fever gifts)

• Alaska Yarn Co - sock - 75/25 SW merino/nylon - “Crayolas”

• Alaska Yarn Co - sock - 65/15 merino/Donegal nep - “Spruce”

Denali: Park organized wildlife tour. Saw a grizzly bear.

Polychrome Yarns:

Bad Sheep Yarn - fingering - 75/25 SW merino/nylon - “Sockeye Salmon”

AK Venture Co - sock - 85/15 SW merino/nylon - “Mizzle” (2X) and “Midnight Sun” (2X)

Fairbanks: Panned for gold at Dredge 8 and rode the Riverboat Discovery.

Very nice shop but yarns I can buy at home so did not purchase anything.

Food: The Library, Jazz Bistro on 4th (Cuban), The Crepery