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In the last 10 days of October I was on quite a roll, getting a lot of things done\u2026weaving off a 16S network twill scarf, making progress on my current tapestry, knitting various things, and even spinning.  I felt unstoppable!\u2026.<\/p>\n

\"Chloe<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cShadow Baby\u201d by Joan Somerville, using 2 shades of Tofutsies yarn. Check out the cute Gita Maria<\/font><\/a> buttons! This sweater is for my new niece who will arrive in Dec!<\/p>\n

\"Tapestry<\/a> <\/p>\n

My biggest accomplishment this month was tackling the details on Rob\u2019s face!  I\u2019m at the halfway point of the cartoon, but have completed more than 50% of the difficult areas now. (Lots of \u2018hand-holding\u2019 from Soyoo Park to choose skin colors and to work three interlocking sections on five warps for Rob\u2019s mouth!)<\/p>\n

A few other things with no photos:  a pair of jaywalker socks where I tried to get the pattern part out of one ball<\/em> of Regia Color Effekt, by using a solid color yarn for the cuff, heel, and toe.  Didn\u2019t work!  I ran out of the Regia before I got to the toe, so part of the foot is done in solid color.  Bummer.  At least that won\u2019t show when I have shoes on!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also brewing another avocado pit dye.  This time I\u2019m attempting patience, how novel!  Each time we eat an avocado I finely chop the pit and add it to the brew.  Every second or third day I heat the dyepot to a simmer for 30 minutes as per Carol Lee\u2019s instructions.  She says this goes on for months<\/em> before actually dyeing. It\u2019s a luscious red!<\/p>\n

Then,<\/strong><\/em> on the penultimate day of the month I began to malfunction\u2026and by the end of the day I was in bed with the flu!  Seven days later I can barely get out of my own way.  I\u2019ve lost momentum\u2026. and I\u201dm in a funk\u2026.<\/p>\n

The last time I had the flu (12 years ago), I ran to my LYS and bought some lace weight merino (Grignasco?) and got in bed with a Eugene Buehler pattern from Knitter\u2019s Magazine. This time I\u2019d been eyeing the recently arrived box of Icelandic unspun yarn in six colors from Schoolhouse Press.  So I went to bed with my little laptop tuned in on Schoolhouse Press\u2019s current shawl KAL<\/font><\/a> by Maria Von Keppel.<\/p>\n

Sleep, knit, drink tea\u2026..sleep, knit, drink tea\u2026. 4 days later:<\/p>\n

\"schoolhouse<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I was able to get out of bed on the day I did the crochet loops.  I graduated to sitting in a chair!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> In the last 10 days of October I was on quite a roll, getting a lot of things done\u2026weaving off a 16S network twill scarf, making progress on my current tapestry, knitting various things, and even spinning.  I felt unstoppable!\u2026. \u201cShadow Baby\u201d by Joan Somerville, using 2 shades of Tofutsies yarn. Check out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-lace","category-tapestry","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}