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Home Sweet Home

April 17, 2010 by Mary Jane 6 Comments

HomeAgain

It feels great to be home, at the same time I’m eager to return to Peru. I learned so much and traveled with an wonderful group of people, most importantly my darling mom, who fulfilled a childhood dream to visit Machu Picchu.

I have so much to share I really don’t know where to begin. My great hopes of blogging on the road were overwhelmed by the need to sleep after such full days of travel. I think even my picture taking suffered due to my desire to see with my eyes not through the lens. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to just straight out experience things.

I’ll be filling you in on all kinds of stories from my trip, in fits and starts I’m afraid. Right now I’m blissing out, surrounded by my trip souvenirs, catching up with work and browsing the latest issue of TwistCollective, where I succumbed to the purchase of Kat Coyle’s “Courting Sophia” inspired by Mexican Textiles. While visiting Chinchero, I participated in a natural dying workshop, you can see the dk weight alpaca I dyed above, but I’ve also got some lace weight alpaca in some of the same colors…that yellow might be just the ticket!

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Sallac Knitters

April 4, 2010 by Mary Jane 9 Comments

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Showing me how it’s done, these guys are fast! See all the little bobbins of color?  For their own personal hats they prefer acrylic yarns, when they knit for the  Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, a wonderful non-profit organization, they use beautiful naturally dyed alpaca.  Note how high their chullos sit on their heads.

We were going to visit their village, but the road was washed out in the mudslides in January. Poor Peru, there were more deadly mudslides this week, in a different region.

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The Preferred Materials

April 4, 2010 by Mary Jane 4 Comments

The Preferred Materials

Our acrylic friends – only in Peru knitters often re-spin it for an ultra-tight twist – to assist in achieving tiny stitches.

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Pitumarca

March 29, 2010 by Mary Jane 5 Comments

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They are using alpaca colored with natural dyes. Knitting or rather purling from the inside, with the yarn going around the neck, and using needles with little hooks on the ends.

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Devils

March 28, 2010 by Mary Jane 6 Comments

Masks

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Otters

March 23, 2010 by Mary Jane 3 Comments

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or squirrels? ChanChan, Trujillo, Peru.

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