My favourite part of all of it is watching the people in our family who neither need nor particularly want these kindnesses bestowed upon them accept them with a tremendous amount of grace, understanding that sometimes it helps the helper more than the helpee. (Insane knitter theory #4: If I keep going, maybe this will stop looking too big. It’s nowhere near the scale of Maryland or Rhinebeck, but the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival in late September is a real up and comer with a wonderfully curated selection of vendors, nice flat ground, and lots of parking. Nope, he has no such talent. It is tradition in our family for me to knit a blanket for every baby born into it. It is a strange and terrible time, and there are days when I just can’t be cheerful about it, and then days when I am with my family and I think that we’re in great shape, for the shape we’re in. Rhinebeck, NY. I’ve been thinking a lot about that over the last few weeks, as the time when we would normally be leaving for the Bike Rally loomed, and Team Knit prepared to have a proper pout about it. There is a lot I don’t understand about this pandemic, but what is wrong with how time passes right now is clear up at the top of my list. Ha ha. Thank you for sharing some of the magic. Haha! Sure, that neutral garter stitch does sort of go on a bit (if you understand that “by go on a bit” I mean that you’ll weep near the end and beg for it to be over) but the result is so, so lovely. I worry sometimes that something is broken in us after all this, that we will never be the same, and I think that’s true. You were with your peeps. And even more luck, I saw you Sunday with your group looking at a booth with both cashmere and quiviet (yum). This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n' Spinning community. Somewhere, somehow, the need for the yarn was so big and so mighty, that Martha heard the call, and responded the way that only a knitter can. Remove; In this conversation. While he was patient (sort of), it’s not the same. Must know the name of that shawl pattern! I now am 54 with officially three children, ages 20,17 and um…4). Thursday, I left for Rhinebeck, and got on a plane, and then another one, and landed squarely in the arms of magic. All four of us still have jobs (thanks for the Patreon you lot!) patterns (17) projects. I could drive 5 (or 7) to get to Rhinebeck, no problem. You’re right ~ There’s nothing like Rhinebeck! Marti on May 25, 2007 at 2:40 pm said: Another thing you could say is “Everyone is so busy knitting and concentrating on their knitting that they’re not listening to me anyway” however I think that is highly unlikely. It’s been very difficult to get a sense of momentum for an event that can’t happen, and it’s sad  that things can’t happen and…. I did get smart and order most of the yarn I needed a few months/weeks ago, so hopefully nothing is too much of a disaster there. I was there, too, for the first time. They’re beautiful to be sure – but I opened the package and was disappointed for a second, wondering if I was retreating to my typical fall colours. If you’re working from home, why not work from a tent? I love it. Roundabout Exit 151, progress often is neither linear nor sequential... it's more, well, roundabout. As God is my witness, I will be there the first Fall I retire from teaching!! (Can you have a triple whammy? Summery – right? Rhinebeck. Me, James, Ian and Erin. I always knew it was there – but she’s shown more grace though the last four months than I could ever have hoped for. There’s nothing like it. This panel of Lilly of the Valley is her favourite flower, and it grew all the way along the side of her house, and when I was a little girl she used to encourage me to lie on my tummy in the grass and stick my nose right in it. Good to see you got two full sleeves out of the rest of the wool! SHE KNEW that’s what you do. And for revealing next year’s featured breeds for those of us who weren’t able to attend. When I give them a pair of beautiful hand knit socks? I know I’m tired of quarantining or wiping down packages, and I know that it would be an extra trip out to the post office for me to send something to someone now and while things are starting to be less scary in Canada (and I have been to the post office once) we’re still supposed to keep our public contact to a minimum. Of course, I knit Charlotte a blanket, and it was blocked and folded and waiting for her when she arrived, and there aren’t words to tell you how much I looked forward to wrapping her in it – the lace around her little face, her fingers curled like little blossoms against the wool and silk. See you there. 1,491 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from ‘yarnharlot’ hashtag I’ve gone with different friends over the years, and my dutiful husband who manages to keep busy (I let him bring his own friend! I have similar feelings about Rhinebeck. I admit, it hurts just a little to finish something so cozy as it gets truly hot around here, and I am rather short of places to wear it,  but I have hopefully hung it near the back door, ready in case there is a cool evening. I’ve brought three pairs with me, and I intend to turn all of them into finished pairs before i get home, as much madness as that seems like. I’ve showered them on nieces and nephews, and a grand-niece and a grandson, and every one I have knit has been an epic. This is what I was thinking about while I knit her blanket. They don’t make me as sad at all, but the unused ones just break my heart. We had Old Joe do the annual reading of Santa Mouse for all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren – again, Zoom. We’re in the car, thanks to the miracles of technology I’m hitting post as we stream along northward with Elliot in the back seat, headed for an almost local Provincial Park and four days of camping. Twitter is a little less visual, but more up-to-the-minute, and the WEBS Twitter feed is filled with quick tweets from designers, our store staff, fiber bloggers, and even some news sources that have nothing to do with yarn! They are for me. I don’t know how things are where you live, but here we are still under restrictions, mostly increasing ones right now,  and our world is tiny, and having the world shrink to this family and this house sometimes makes it hard to see outside of it. Loved being there! Agree! Similarly the tiny clothes I made for her that she never wore are unbearable. I think it’s just so pretty, and I believe I’ve got that little jolt of bright acid springtime yellow to thank for it. I’ve been wondering how to come back here every day when I’ve failed yet again, and it stalls me right out. You were there.Sue. It was super cold while we were there too (almost zero at night) and that by itself was pretty inspiring in the blanket department. My second bucket list item after Port Ludlow…didn’t see Steph, darn it, but I got consumed by yarn fumes and came home with a suitcase full after Rhinebeck, Fabyarns in Tivoli and Spinning Sheep in Dover, NH (lovely people all of them), As a “shepherdess” I must point out that one of those is a goat . The Thing About My Family | Yarn Harlot. I know so many of you are in the US- the epicenter of the world’s pandemic, and that with hundreds of people dying every day still – you might not feel comfortable going to the the post office, or getting a package. They often think that knitters won’t appreciate them as much because they could just make a pair of socks themselves, but it’s never how it goes. Steph Pearl-McPhee (@YarnHarlot) | Twitter. A mother maybe, an auntie, a sister. Ahead of midnight on the 31st; I pay all my bills, I clean the house, I sweep one last time and throw the dust out the back door – all so that I don’t carry anything bad forward into the new year and I end as I mean to go on. The most common yarn harlot material is glass. Stunning shawl! Joe’s still grocery shopping for his parents and others as needed, and we’ve kept it to once a week since mid March, so we’re all sorted there. Today – I’m going to – well, first I’m finishing this blog post, then I’m finishing something for The Patreon (if you’re a patron, a new video headed your way today I think – can’t believe I said that either) and then – oh crap it’s Tuesday so I have to have a weekly meal plan and a grocery list together and text the neighbours to see if they need anything and it’s still snowing so I’ll have to shovel before I take the recycling out and … then. Workshops. The shops are all set up for curbside pickup and delivery, we’ve got our PPE sorted, and other than widening our bubble to include our immediate family (and then shrinking it again a few months later, as instructed) Joe and I have pretty much kept ourselves in lockdown the whole time anyway. The house was a mess, I wasn’t even there, I think Joe washed some ski socks in the sink, I didn’t sweep. (That’s 1-ply merino in “woods” and Marsh Mohair in “Shrub”)  I wondered if I was really any good this spring and summer knitting thing, and then I laid the little beginnings of my sweater in the heuchera by the door for a photo, and look. Obviously the stupid pandemic (and a few other knots in my metaphoric skein) meant that things were going to be very different and it was really getting me a bit down. I loved seeing all the pretty knitted sweaters. Mostly though, I want to show you what I really go for. It’s almost four? http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/nyc-marathon-knitting-runner-crochets-flowers-article-1.2407903?cid=bitly#_gus&_gucid=article. Over 50 million people in America knit. This is what we’re talking about”. This is the only element that has appeared on most blankets that I knit – it’s a signature move, and is meant to symbolize the family that surrounds the child, whole and intact, as protectors and help. I’ve been a very busy grandmother – Elliot is here a lot, and I’m sure I don’t have to tell you what a busy three year old does to your available time. I’ve got a pretty good idea that it was her knitter instincts taking over. Dear Elliot, Dear Maeve, Dear Frankie, Dear Luis…. I’m sure there’s no connection, but you can be assured that I have spent the last week cleaning this house within an inch of it’s life. Instead, whole mornings are lost to *figuring out how to get red embroidery floss through a website and curbside pickup only to pick-up said pickup and realize that it’s completely the wrong red, heading home dejectedly while realizing that you forgot green thread anyway so you might as well light this floss on fire and make another order, all while wondering how you got yourself in a situation where red floss is an “essential trip.” (Repeat from * when the green thread is wrong and doesn’t match the buttons you had to compromise on as well.) Any day with a Yarn Harlot blog post is a very good day indeed. While I share a bubble with Sam and her husband Mike (and Mike’s awesome mum Marilyn) the rest of Team Knit does not – so while Sam and Mike have graciously agreed to let Team Knit use the bathroom there – we’ve got tents to put up in their backyard. One that was rather serious in nature, because we’re not just bummed that we don’t get to have a Rally, we’re really rather more upset that The Rally (not really being a Rally this year) hasn’t been able to fund the agency the way that they usually do – which makes total sense but is still upsetting. We’d kill people and spread the virus. You’ll find some of those letters here on the blog. I was hoping I would see you, but with the thousands of people there, I figured the odds were near 0. Every hour, another few darlings of mine turned up in my back garden, and I had a physically distanced visit with all of them. Luxury yarns hand dyed in small batches. It’s not perfect, and it’s not the Rally, but it’s the best we can do. We spent the weekend enjoying wool, talking knitting, talking everything, knitting, catching up, and cementing what brings us back, over and over. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed. I thought angora only came from rabbits?? I arranged our annual Gingerbread Party over Zoom – I baked cookies and made icing and dropped them off at the doors of all parties concerned. Bake bread for all your friends, and while we’re at it, isn’t the house supposed to be cleaner than ever now that you’re in it all the time? I’m entirely smitten. I, too, looked at the purple shawl long and longingly. I can smell the wool fumes from here! Yarn: some antique (and sadly discontinued) Schaefer Heather (in bluebell) Pattern: Undulating Waves. Here in the MidSouth, the trees are not into autumn colors yet, and when they finally do, it seems like they are gone in one windy, rainy day. To be clear, that money is going to run out – the crisis is not over, and the Rally isn’t raising as much this year as last. Then we looked at that goal, and we decided it wasn’t lofty enough It wasn’t… hard enough. The minute we heard we booked this trip, and you’ll happily find us in the woods as much as we can be there now. I am too clever and I suspect you are as well, to think that they are even remotely the same, that they scratch the same itch. In a family that values handmade things as part of our culture, the blankets feel like treasures to me, and they’ve always been treated that way by the parents of the babes, and by the children themselves, when they get big enough. We talked it over and we decided we would ride the Rally anyway. Turns out that being constantly in your house and using it for every aspect of your life trashes the joint. All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again Things I Learned From Knitting Whether I Wanted To or Not Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting Knitting Rules! Thank you for sharing! “Angora” comes from the Angora rabbit. I’m out of my box. To say we were happy she was a girl? That she would join a long line of incredible women that Meg and I would tell her about as she grew. Today I finished a pair of socks, my first finished in 2006 (although started last year!). Yes please, we need to know about this cape! You would think that a lockdown would give you nothing to do but knit and organize, but that’s not my experience of it. (Edited to add: Thanks to everyone in the comments who tipped me off that I’d forgotten to link to the pattern – there you go!). What happened to brushing up on your Spanish, and weren’t you going to run a 5k? Never realized how easy it would be to fall in love with a goat! After a false start, I came to a successful conclusion, and rewarded myself with time with my neglected spinning wheel. Madrona is my Rhinebeck; for those of us in the great Pacific Northwest. I can’t wait to hear what you think of the recent Canadian elections and Justin Trudeau (I remember his father). 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