Jofrog is Knitfrog!
March 20 2005
Yesterday was the knitsmiths swap, and boy was it a good one! When you get that many good
knitters together to give up their unwanted stash yarn in hopes of bringing home some new
wonderful yarn to fill its place how could things go wrong?
I went through my stash to see what I could part with and this is what I came up with. From
the top clockwise: 8 skeins of Rowan Cork in a beautiful green, 1.5 skeins of Rowan Cork in
a navy blue, Opal sock yarn, 2 skeins of Tahki Cotton Classic, 1 skein of Joslyn's Fiber
Farm "Sockers" yarn, and scattered around the outside some Brown Sheep Bulky and Worsted and
some Cascade 220.
I didn't have any expectations of what I'd leave with. I was thinking maybe some new sock
yarn, but otherwise I was open to the possibilities. Once again my expectations were
exceeded. Again from the top clockwise: 2 cones of fingering weight shetland wool, 1 skein
of Shaefer Anne, 3 skeins of Rowan Yorkshire Tweed DK, and some assorted fingering weight
green and red wool.
I'm most excited about the fingering weight cone yarn. Alison had bought it to become part of a
Fair Isle sweater, and before she told me that I was creating visions of my own sweater in
my head. Later I found the green and red to possibly go along with it. We'll see where
that goes in my crazy Jofrog designing mind.
The Yorkshire Tweed DK was a great score, and is destined to be a child's ragalan sweater,
possibly with contrasting sleeves.
After the orderly picking was done there was a free for all where I scored the Schaefer Ann.
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picture.) How that was missed by the other ladies, I don't know. What I'll do with it,
that I don't know either. It really should be a shawl. It's really my mom's colors... what
do you think? Would you wear a lace shawl Mom?Swap-a-roo
