The calendar played a nasty trick on us this year with two of our regular fall festivals. Instead of the usual week break between the Memphis Pink Palace Festival and the Arkansas War Eagle Fair we only have two days here on the farm before heading back out the door! I thought I’d show you…
The Walnut Valley Guitar Festival was, as always, eventful. We arrived on late Wednesday afternoon and quickly sat up our tent in the vendor parking area. The sky began to darken and we thought we were wise to have our tent set up before the ran begun. We decided to skedaddle into Winfield proper for…
What you see are two colorways for fall. In the far back is Anything But Drab in Oak Barn Merino – that fabulous ultrafine merino lace yarn. 1000 yds/90 grams. In the very front is our Wool/Bamboo lace blend in colorway Horsehoes with Van Gogh. The center yarn is more of the Oak Barn Merino…
The Pecan Grove Scarf is ready just in the nick of time! Each September for the past few years we’ve attended a large music festival in Winfield, Kansas. For several weeks the groves come alive with music – bluegrass and folk primarily. The evenings can get nippy when wandering the groves moving from campsight to…
I finally took the plunge and created a Facebook identity for LostCity Knits this week. Yes, that’s LostCity (without a space) Knits. Why Facebook? It’s a good place to enjoy community with like minded folks. I’ll try not to clutter up your newsfeed too much, but will have relevant blog posts, festival dates, and even…
Goals are good things, even if they don’t fall into place quite where one intended. Over the weekend I thought I’d become some sort of organized blogger this week with posts like OTN – Tuesday or FO – Friday like some of my more clever friends. Yesterday was taken up with hours of plugging in…
Is it too far to drive to the farmers market in Tulsa but a skein of alpaca/silk would make the perfect scarf for fall evenings? Kids have soccer on Saturdays but you’re craving some llama/bamboo yarn? Are you already planning to knit mittens for holiday presents and need a skein of wool/bamboo? There are now…
Although I bound this shawl off on August first we’ve just this morning taken a few photos for show and tell. Pattern: Emily Dickinson Shawl by Keiran Foley Yarn: Lost City Silk in colorway Portland Beads: Copper-lined clear size 6 from Bead Merchant in Tulsa, OK In one of her letters to Thomas Higginson, Emily…
Dear Newly Dyed Yarn, I love you madly and want to dye more yarn the same color as you. You are Anything But Drab. In fact, you are so lovely that I couldn’t resist designing a New Scarf to show you off. We’re going to make a smashing threesome. Your friend,The Dyer Dear Chart A…
The heat wave continues. It’s 6pm and still 102 degrees. Wicked hot. The interesting thing is that this heat means anything wet will dry quickly. Yep that makes it a good day to dye. So here are a few skeins of the Oklahoma Fiber that will be available at the Cherry Street Farmers Market this…