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Last weekend I had a great couple of classes at one of my favorite yarn shop’s Purl Diva, in Brunswick. Ellen’s shop is in a darling old Victorian house, and has a newly renovated cheery classroom space upstairs. Working with color is so much fun. If you reach outside your comfort zone with color choices, amazing things can happen!   Let me just say my students were inspiring, I can’t think of a better way to spend the day than knitting with a group of women eager to try new things.

After class one of my students took me to the local art museum at Bowdoin College, what a special treat that was, I had no idea this gem was in our backyard.  Thank you so much Aldona, it was a perfect ending to a perfect day.

I can be persuaded that there are in fact, enough colors of Shetland wool, and shetland-like wool to choose from.  For true Shetland wool alone,  Jamieson’s weighs in as the winner with at least 176 colors, Jamieson and Smith has 80. Other companies, though not Shetland wool, have the correct weight for traditional projects, Knit Picks with 83 colors, Harrisville with 56, Finnullgarn with 100, and that’s just for starters…so we’re ok after all.

I love them all.

Which are your favorites?

Who did I leave out?

Does it surprise you? It’s homemade.

The halo of angora….