Good Mail
One of the many lovely things about this job is all the good mail it generates. There are few things more fun to find in the mailbox than some yummy yarn. And when it's book yarn selecting time, you get a lot of good yarn in the mail! That's Merino DK by Hedgehog Fibres in the color Construct. And that's Meridian by Seven Sisters Arts in the color Silk Road (the bundle) and Citron (the big skein). They're both for Curls 3, which will be mostly speckles and gradients. I'm having so much fun tracking down fabulous yarns, and have [...]
Next…
This is just about ready for the decreases. Which means it's time to start figuring out what to do for the third one (the blue one here). Expect swatches soon...
One more round
Remember back in November when I had some holes in an old sweater? And I hated the idea of shopping so much that I decided to embroider over the things instead of buying a new sweater (you can follow along on the whole adventure over here if you're so inclined, scroll down...). Yeah, well the sweater got another hole (kittens...blame kittens). But once you're that invested in fixing something, you're not going to let it go for one more little hole. You're going to grab the same batch of threads you used last time and stitch on it some more. [...]
So when I say a set…
So when I say I'm thinking of doing a set, I'm speaking fairly loosely. We're not talking a hat and mitts and a cowl, we're talking a few pieces that all explore a similar idea. In this case, that idea is 'what if I start with a lovely, neutral background and a simple shape...and then pull another yarn in to do something a bit crazy with a funky stitch for some fancy texture?' So here you can see the first iteration of that (it's Entrapment, and it's already out on ravelry if you simply must have it). And here's the [...]
Because one is never enough
The hat continues to grow, and I continue to be hopelessly smitten with it. It starts out with the rows of doobly-dos all squinched up together, but then as you go along they spread out. I love having things taper off like that. It makes it feel like the hat is picking up momentum as you go along (because the fancy rows do take a bit more time than the plain ones). Yarn is Tosh Vintage in Smokestack (the gray one) and Tosh Merino Light in Alizarin (the pink one), and I'm loving the combo! [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]
Just in time
This is growing, and I'm loving it. And apparently we're going to have one last snowstorm (oh please let it be this winter's last...I'm so ready for spring), so maybe I'll get some time to tuck in and finish it up. The wee twirly bits are going to spread out and become more sparse as we head to the top of the hat, so it should get even faster as I work along. And yes, yes I have already started day dreaming of what to do for the third in this 'gray background, funky secondary yarn' thing I'm playing with [...]
I’m sensing a theme
I'm sort of loving this mellow gray yarn as a background, funky colorful single for an accent thing. I think there may end up being a few of these. So far it's going well. And you know I love how it came out for the hat that just came out. I think there just might be something to this... [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]
Entrapment (plus giveaway)
You know that feeling you get when you're doing something that's actually really easy but looks super impressive? That feeling that sits dangerously close to smug self satisfaction? That feeling is what Entrapment is all about! I know it looks like you're doing something complicated there, but you're really not. This might actually be the simplest hat I've ever designed (and it's certainly the closest I've ever come to telling you to knit a tube of plain stockinette). I mean yes, every now and then you slip a stitch or work a twisted stitch, but just about every stitch in [...]
Oh hey look, more swatches
Yup, somehow there are more. I think I've found a stitch I like...this is both cute and awfully fun to do. But I'm hesitant to use that yarn combo (it's yarn from two different companies, and I'm trying to lean towards using yarns from the same company in any one piece). I love the blue (it's from Dream in Color), but can't seem to get my hands on a gray from them. So, a quick stash toss revealed another promising combo. I will, of course, need to swatch it too (are you sensing a theme?), but I suspect it will [...]
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