wool and cashmere

Such a WONDERFUL concept!  Kate Davies of the Needled blog (textisles.com)has put together a month long celebration of wool.  Do go over and have a look.  I have been an admirer from the first read - she is the consummate knitter and scholar!  If I ever run low on inspiration or gratitude I hop on over to Needled.  The world shifts back into view.

Wool has always been my first choice, and since we are celebrating wool this November I am hard pressed to talk about my current project.  I'll whisper.  cashmere ... cashmere from Lobster Pot.

It was time to break out the cashmere that my mom had brought back from Nantucket for me this summer.  It is so delicious that I can hardly stand it.  

Like Delisa's (Dances With Yarn) cotton balls growing in her Georgia fields, only more sublime.  I keep wondering how I ever passed over cashmere ... oh, that's right - the outrageous prohibitive cost! It's worth every darn penny.

If only you could lean in and touch this.  What am I knitting, you ask?  If might be my favorite for 2011.

I fully expect to live in this piece ... sleep in it, walk the dog in it ... go to the market and maybe to work in it!  

And believe it or not, there is another cowl being shaped.  This pattern is one of those wonderful staples that you can carry with you and pick up and not have to worry about counting - it's the perfect knit for when you are waiting on a line or perhaps sitting with your colleagues in a boring meeting  ... you get the picture!   Honey Cowl found on the Madelinetosh website - FREE! 

Miss Babs has colors in her repertoire that are just astonishing!  

We love this 'dahlia' with black or grey.

How pretty this is when paired with the blueberry bushes!  

So many people in the northeast have been hammered with this past storm - our cherry tree lost a huge branch, but we never lost our power.  Fall has slipped away - my sister says that the baton has been passed.  So sad.  No leaf peeping, no lovely foliage.