Knitting by Zen

I’m at a loss today - I have two skeins of KnitPicks Memories but no idea of what to make with them. I don’t want to knit socks, and there’s not enough there to do most of the projects I want to do on Ravelry, so I’m stuck.

Suggestions?

UPDATE: here’s what’s left!

Prices are suggested only - please, make me an offer and help me clean out this part of my stash. I’ll be doing books soon, and then commercial yarns. Please pm me any questions you have.Postage is $5 up to 500g, and $10 up to 3kg, and then above that by discussion.

Summary photos are here.

• Baby yarn 200g $12.50 (4 ply machine washable wool): orange and white, dyed in an interesting way so that one end of the skein is lots of orange, then it goes into a pale orange and lots of white in the middle, then back to more orange at the end. You can kind of see this effect in the wound ball.cake here

• Aran weight cashmere / wool blend! Pinky red colours - so soft! 200g. $17.50

• 75% wool / 20% mohair / 5% alpaca, 200g skeins, Lollypop Pink, Purple Pleasure (L-R skein #3 in this photo) and Flushed Cheeks (pale red). 8ply ish yarn. Lovely when knit but again - extra to a dyeing order so I have no need for it. $15 each.

• 50:50 mohair and wool 200g skeins, 8 ply: 1x Raspberry Tea, 1x Purely Purple, and 1x Kissed Lips. $15 a skein. Roughly 400m per skein. (L-R skein #1, #2 and #4!)

• Alpaca / wool blend, flecked underneath and sunset colours on top, NOT machine washable, $12.50 for 200g skein 8ply

• My Knitting Journal (a gorgeous book version of Ravelry - great for someone who’s not on the internet) $10

• Knitting Handbook (Viv Foster) $10

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you’ll risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it’s not pretty everyday, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I am having a sale / destash of my own yarns at the moment (all hand dyed and gorgeous, just not able to be sold at a markets atm due to shoulder issues and potential shoulder surgery!).

Prices are suggested only - please, make me an offer and help me clean out this part of my stash. I’ll be doing books soon, and then commercial yarns. Please pm me any questions you have.

Postage is $5 up to 500g, and $10 up to 3kg, and then above that by discussion.

Summary photos are here.

• Sock yarn x9 100g skeins $10.50 a skein (3ply machine washable wool): Happy Flowers, Blue Moon, Very Vermillion x2, Quantum Quatro, Ginger Ninja x2, ?, Kate’s Pallet (in a ball already)

• Baby yarn 200g $12.50 (4 ply machine washable wool): orange and white, dyed in an interesting way so that one end of the skein is lots of orange, then it goes into a pale orange and lots of white in the middle, then back to more orange at the end. You can kind of see this effect in the wound ball.cake here

• Baby yarn 200g $12.50 (4 ply machine washable wool): dark green and white, dyed in an interesting way so that one end of the skein is lots of green, then it goes into a paler green and slightl more white in the middle, then back to more green at the end.

• Art Viva needles, 4 sets (3x 30cm - green, pale blue, orange, 1x 20cm - red and white dots) all 4mm!! $4.00 a set

• Lace weight 200g $12.00 (2ply wool, machine washable): Happy Flowers (orange/pink/purple)

• Harmony 200g skein (wool/cotton/lycra): pale green and white. $10 - it was dyed extra to a customer’s requirements and I don’t like knitting with it, even though it’s a lovely yarn!

• Wool/Blue faced Leicster (sp?)/mohair - Grape Punch. 200g. 8ply ish yarn. Gorgeous but I have way too much purple in my stash! $12.50

• Aran weight cashmere / wool blend! Pinky red colours - so soft! 200g. $17.50

• 275g ish mohair / wool / silk blend. It’s a lot like Cracksilk Haze but handdyed with pale blues and greys. The three balls here show the differences in colours - it was originally 12 balls that I dyed and then have wound up into 3 balls for knitting with, but I don’t actually like knitting with it so I’ve only swatched one ball out of it. More pictures. $15.00

• 12 ply That 70s Yarn - 100g so would make a scarf or a hat. I made a Rollin’ Beret out of one skein. $8.00

• 75% wool / 20% mohair / 5% alpaca, 200g skeins, Lollypop Pink and Flushed Cheeks. 8ply ish yarn. Lovely when knit but again - extra to a dyeing order so I have no need for it. $15 each.

• 8 ply machine washable yarn, 100g skeins: Blue Moon and Happy Flowers. $8 each.

• 8 ply machine washable yarn, 200g skeins: 3x Emerald City, 2x Great Grapes! $15 each or $11/skein if you buy the whole set for each colour (so $33 for the green and $22 for the purple)

• Alpaca 200g skeins 8 ply: 1 which is speckled/flecked dark brown on cream underneath pale red, and the other which is pale pinks and purples. Both are lovely. $15 a skein.

• 50:50 mohair and wool 200g skeins, 8 ply: 1x Raspberry Tea, 2x Purely Purple, and 1x Kissed Lips. $15 a skein.

• Alpaca / wool blend, flecked underneath and sunset colours on top, NOT machine washable, $12.50 for 200g skein 8ply

Apricot Chicken

4 carrots, chunkily sliced
1.5 chicken breasts, chunkily sliced
4 garlic cloves, chunkily sliced
1L boiling chicken stock
1 410g ish tin of apricots
1 shake of spices (as you like)

Arrange in a deep baking dish in that order. Bake loosely covered, at 200C for about an hour. Stir and add some frozen veges. Bake for a further 15 minutes. Make some rice. Add a dash of cream and serve up.

Yum. I need seconds.