Knitting@roosterhillfarm.com

I guess I have had this chair kicking around for about 2-3 years. I bought it and another one, both old fashioned metal hotel chairs, at an auction for a song. The other chair I painted blue and you can see it in some of my pictures.



I guess it took me that long to sand it and decide it was time to prime it and paint it. I started it one day a couple of weeks ago when we had no power and I had no truck. Priming it was easy.



I wanted this chair to be 2 colors so I had to block it off. Hindsight being 20-20 I would have done it in reverse of what I did here, doing the small parts before the all over color. I used spray paint and the blue paint spray head was a little squirrely and wanted to put paint everywhere (you should see my fingers!)



Naturally, I had help.



But it is finally done! I still have a little touch up to do (remember, squirelly paint head) but I am really happy with the results! I think it will be a great chair to sit in and knit!

And a lot of frogging too! Just not posting about it! Here are Pear Blossom Socks, Superwash Kraemer Base, (yarn came from here) dyed with coffee. Pattern. A bit tight though


Olympic Hat, one gifted to my cousin, another to my husband. Yarn Ella Rae. Pattern


Winnow in Wollmeise. Sadly only one completed so far. Pattern


A funky beret in Plymouth Yarn Trabajos Del Peru. Pattern


My kind of town cowl in a lovely teal Plymouth Yarn Baby Alpaca Grande. It may not look like much here but it was comfy and cozy during our very cold winter. Pattern.


Also 2 scarves in Classic Elite Firefly — one gifted and not photographed and the other I cannot find in Flickr. And manymanymany socks that I ended up ripping out. Many.


If anyone can remember how to grab the Ravelry button for projects can you remind me how? I seem to have forgotten. Thanks!

When I discovered last minute that I was going to Rhinebeck, my next thought was What DO I Wear??! After all Rhinebeck is the fashion show for handknits. (Did you see the medley of hats someone posted on Flickr?) I thought of this unfinished sweater I had languishing in a closet waiting to be seamed (I hate seaming). The pattern was from a Family Circle magazine, circa 2004, and designed by Suss Cousins. The yarn is Malabrigo. You know – 100% wool wonderfully dyed wool.



LOOK at that! Look what they did!



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Clearly it was time to take action.

In one of the blogs I read, I discovered The Fiber Denn and their herbal moth away products. I purchased the “Sextet Collection ” which contained 6 different blends to scare away these voracious insects.



They include some small heat-sealable teabags and a small wooden scoop to make your sachets.



At Rhinebeck I also purchased some bulk herbs — a mix of cedar, rosemary, mint — from an unknown vendor (no name on the receipt, no card in the bag or I would link to them, really!). I already had some large heat-sealable teabags and I put this blend in those. If you want teabags of your own, I bought mine from Atlantic Spice Company. They have herbs too if you want to blend your own.


So here’s hoping that I have put a stop to those moths! Luckily of all the sweaters I had tucked away waiting to be finished, this was the only one they found appetizing (the others are wool too). All my stash is stored in plastic bins in other rooms, and I do go through them every month. These sachets will make me feel better!