Today we have some Unravel for real! A failed sweater from 2017 ish was returned to yarn balls, 1200+ yards of chunky weight yarn.
Have you heard about Sweaters for Good, the initiative of the Hudson Valley Textile Project that asked knitters coming to Rhinebeck for NY Sheep and Wool to commit to knitting their "Rhinebeck Sweater" out of yarn with roots in NY State and/or the Northeast US. 
All of which is to say I took the pledge and now the clock is ticking! IAlthough I have plenty of great local yarn, none seems to be in a sweater quantity unless I want multicolored stripes. I saw Kay's post on Modern Daily Knitting about her Sweater for Good considering Rug, I remembered that this sweater has been in my queue forever, would be a quick knit (chunky yarn ftw) and I had a failed sweater knit in Jill Draper Makes Stuff yarn,at exactly the right weight and vibe, and it is about as local to Rhinebeck as one can get!
That's what it looked like knit up, pre unraveling the failed pullover. Color more accurate here than at top.
Anyway, a quick check with Jill Draper for a skein of CC for the Rug yoke found me discovering she'd discontinued this yarn (Middlefield, its' a wool alpaca blend) but had a skein left that could work for me.. It's one the way. I am kind of excited to cast on. Let's ignore the fact that it has been pretty warm at the annual Rhinebeck sheep festival in recent years so knitting this may be more of an act of faith than a fashion statement in October!
READING: Kin by Tayari Jones. Wonderful characters, enjoying and recommend so far! It's a good follow up from Whistler by Ann Patchett . I am not the only one feeling this way: these two authors are speaking together (!!) at the National Book Festival in DC next weekend , wish I could attend! (aug 22nd) .
Folded crane covered wall!At a health center I was photographing at for a client earlier this week.
7 comments:
That folded crane wall!!! I want one. Rug is such a gorgeous sweater and I love the colors in the yarn that you unraveled. Sometimes unraveling is the BEST feeling!
I'm all for "an act of faith" knitting this time of year. I'm looking at those cranes as a hope for peace. They are so pretty.
I want the folded crane wall too- it was about 10 feet wide!
Okay. Now you've totally got me thinking about crane walls (and how I can create one . . . I only have one string of paper cranes, so it'd be A Project . . . ) and that Rug sweater. Which I have never noticed before but now can't get out of my brain. I think yours will be fabulous, and if you can't wear it at Rhinebeck, I'm sure you can wear it eventually. What gorgeous re-claimed yarn!
I think unraveling can sometimes be a very good thing! (and like Kym, Rug did not cross my radar when it was released but if I had yarns that would work for it I'd have cast on already!) I would LOVE to go to hear Tayari and Ann together!
Musing about what a warm sweater that will be. . . Could you leave off the sleeves till after Rhinebeck? It'd still feel like wearing a rug ;-) but it's a little relief. That's a beautiful sweater and a great idea!
Love that crane wall! And I hadn't heard about the sweater project, but it's a great idea.
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