Last week a sudden hankering to weave a table runner took hold of me.  I know these sudden urges well, and know that I'd best jump on them when they occur.  Inspired, I'm sure, by a recent trip to YarnScout where a purchase of some gorgeous, tonal-dyed viscose and linen yarn was innocently sitting in its shopping bag, just waiting to be whipped up into something for the home.  I'd been thinking about table runners and how we'd had a shortage of table runners at our Weavers Guild Sale in December.  Beautiful table runners are such a quintessential hand weaving project!   I decided to try my hand at this simple, but satisfying project and voila!  I'm very pleased with the result!

Yes, in follow-up to my last post I just gotta say:  thank heavens that wool season remaineth…in Montana that is.  Even in the midst of a freakish February with temps in the 50's and all remnants of the winter snow pack rapidly receding to the furthest, most deeply shaded corners of the yard, one still has the unquenchable desire to work with wool.  And I have been.  I took advantage yesterday of the guilty pleasure of some warm February sunshine and hung some fresh washed handspun yarn on the line.  I say guilty because we know in our heart of hearts that February is supposed to be bleak and gray, with non-stop snow storms adding to our precious mountain snow pack.   That snow is meant to water all living things, including us, through the entire year, so we'd better not get too damn happy about the crazy warm weather of late.  And yet… since we can't really control it, can our hearts rejoice even a teensy bit if our Montana groundhog says we might have an early spring?  I think perhaps we can, especially since early spring in Montana means that it might stop snowing by mid April if we're lucky.  So my heart did rejoice a bit as I hung out my pretty yarn.  Even the colors say "spring," do they not?  "Spring" and "wool" still go together in Montana and for that I do indeed rejoice!  

Yeah boy!  It's that most wonderful time of the year, and I do not speak of the holidays.  I am referring to fall, glorious fall, and specifically October when, in a good year, the sky is intensely blue, the air nippy, the sun warm and golden as filtered through the beautiful leaves.  Ya gotta love it.  I could completely do without Halloween, but other than that, October is definitely the best month.  

And the wool bug bit recently.  Hard.  I was innocently minding my own business (and perusing Ravelry.com) when I came across a big, luscious scarf/wrap thing that spoke to me.  Well, spoke might be a little too soft; it actually beckoned in a fairly large voice that it really really wanted to be my first project of Fall 2014.  It was called Livezy House Wrap.


Oh, and it didn't hurt it's case by being shown in almost exactly the same colors as some scrumptious skeins of Thirteen Mile Organic Wool that I'd been drooling over all summer.

Drooling all summer?  Let me back up a sec and clarify:  I have the marvelous good fortune of working part-time at a small mill here in the Gallatin Valley, the Thirteen Mile Lamb & Wool Co.  Oh. My. Gosh.  If you think you have a wool addiction now, just try working at a mill where you are surrounded, day in and day out, with a plethora of amazing, organic wool products of every possible description….  No time to go into all that now; just let me say that there were these skeins in extraordinarily warm and delicious fall colors that went together so beautifully it almost made me cry.  Hence the drooling.  When I could stand it no longer, they went home with me.

And that's how Organic Livezy became my first and current Fall 2014 knitting project.  It's the kind of project you never want to end.  I'd turn it into an king-sized blanket or a mile-long scarf but I'm pretty sure I'd run out of yarn before then.  So I'll just live in the moment and enjoy every stitch while it lasts….