Saturday, January 15, 2005

Joanne asked me what yarns I've used for the designs in Folk Knitting in Estonia. I have substituted various fingering weight yarns with success except for those designs using Tuna for some reason. Those projects turn out smaller than expected when substituting fingering weight yarn. Here's the list:



2 pairs of Laila's Socks in Brown Sheep Wildfoote



Tiit's socks in Wildfoote



Sander's mittens in Virtual Yarns Hebridean yarn and size 3 needles to size up pattern to adult



Landra's Gloves in Stahl Baby Merino (old Elann closeout) and size 1 dpns



Meida's Mittens in Richesse et Soie (cashmere/silk) and size 0 dpns



Kristi's Mittens in Elann's baby cashmere and size 0 dpns - turned out small



Kalev's Mittens in Nylamb (old fingering weight wool/nylon baby sock yarn) and size 0 dpns - I only did 5 1/2 chart repeats to make them fit



Helgi's Mittens in Nature Spun fingering weight and size 1 dpns - gauge was off and they turned out smaller



Liidia's Gloves, Nylamb (see above) and size 0 dpns



We had a lovely walk today around the University of New Mexico campus. Albuquerque weather really sucks in July but it is always nice to be able to get outside and do things in January. Today it was about 50 degrees and sunny.



UNM is an architectural masterpiece so do walk the campus if you're ever in town. 40 of the buildings were designed by John Gaw Meem who is renowned for his Spanish-Pueblo building style.



Here is Meem's Zimmerman library. DH says it is quite difficult to build adobe walls that slope inward like these.









Here you can see the Sandia Mountains in the distance.









Here are the soccer fields in front of some dorms.