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Buy A Share in a Flock of Yarn

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Ok, so maybe sheep and goats should not be reffered to as “Walking Yarn” but anyone addicted to yarns will know how I feel.

Dreamend of owning your own yarn supply? But Don’t have room for some “Walking Yarn” in your back yard? then this just might be the answer.

Martha’s vineyard fiber farm is selling shares in their flock.
You can purchase a share of the Spring 2008 clip and they take care of all the fun stuff like shoveling shi* and tending to the need of the “walking yarn” animals.

Here’s How it Works

When you purchase a share in the CSA you are investing in the Spring 2008 “yarn harvest”. You’ll receive an shareholders certificate, weekly email updates on what’s going on around the farm and an invitation to the Shearing Day Celebration.
After shearing, you’ll receive your share of the harvest. The number of skeins, yaradage, etc., will depend on the size of the clip . You can chose to take all of your share in one kind of yarn or receive a sampler with some of each of the yarns they produce, including mohair, kid mohair, Cormo and Cotswold.

How much does a share cost? it is $100 per share. For more details visit the website

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]