The United Colors of Balls'of'Yarn

It's here, the long-awaited package from the States.

It includes 21 balls of Peruvian Highland wool, in all the colors imaginable ('suede', 'doe', 'bison', 'currant', 'pimento' and 'lipstick', just to mention few...),

and the instructions how to make this, the "East Meets West Satchel", designed by the friendly folks at KnitPicks:

Believe me, I did not hit my head - but I do see colors, all over the place :)

'Raspberry heather', 'Masala' and 'Wallaby' - here I come!

Knitting with Wwwool

After the supple and soft yarn of the latest project, the cardigan 'Sabbatical', I've taken up the tunic from the latest VK, this one with fair isle borders.

I decided to finally use up some Pirkka-yarn which has been simmering in my stash since last winter - and man, it's tough. It's 100% wool, you see. Good ol', crunch-your-fingers, rough-up- your-hands 100% wool.

Somehow it's good to really feel what you're making, knowing that this is the yarn used by fore-mothers and so on. But, pheew... as I've promised to give this a Certain Person, I need to finish it - and preferably before the winter's over, and preferably before The Bag Kit (which I told you about earlier) arrives from the States. Pheew.

I try to be diligent, finish it up (back side almost done already, so I'm half way there) and move on. And be satisfied with myself for taking up such an arcane and traditional yarn.

The result better be good, or else....