Don’t Cross the Streams
The plan is totally working. Just as important, all the math indicates that I'll be able to make the cowl significantly wider (by keeping the mitts tiny...tiny but awfully cute). So as long as I can keep from tangling the various bits and pieces of the project, everything should come together well. And apparently this morning the yarn is purple. I've simply embraced the changing nature of this fabric and I'm no longer fighting it. I swear I'm setting my white balance and I'm in decent light. I think it's just the yarn's magic resisting the camera's technology. I'm letting [...]
Cumbersome
As some of you guessed, the Pink Thing from the last few posts is destined to be a cowl. Apparently a reversible cowl, as I've yet to come to any decisions about which side is the right side. I think I even have buttons that will work with a reversible fabric, so it's apparently meant to be. But, because I can't keep things simple, I also want to make mitts. I know what they should look like, the only question is if I have enough yarn. So I've devised a plan. The cowl is now thick enough that it will [...]
Presto Chango
Someone linked to this on pinterest and we've had a lot of folks stopping by asking about it (hi, welcome). If you're looking for the book that has this pattern in it, it's called Rabble Rousers and it's available on ravelry. I swear this yarn (it's Arroyo by Malabrigo in the color archangel) changes color every five minutes. It goes from purple to pink whenever you blink. Even more confusingly, it looks downright blue at night under florescent lights. If you look at the yarn itself, there are tiny specks of just about every color imaginable. More or less magic [...]
Chamfer, Again
Alas, I was scandalously remiss in not telling you more about yesterday's Chamfer socks. Perhaps most importantly, I should tell you about the yarn. It's Dream in Color's Everlasting Sock. Which might just be one of my new favorite sock yarns. It's made up of 8 tiny, tightly twisted plies, so the stitch definition is fabulous. It's a 420 yard hank, so there's plenty of yarn for even the biggest of feet. And the colors are, as always with Dream in Color, absolutely amazing. All of which brings up something else I should tell you. Yesterday's pictures are too...red. The [...]
Chamfer
As promised, the orange(ish) spiky socks (they look a bit too pink in these shots, which is totally my fault, but it's snowy out there now and I don't feel like braving the elements to try again). These have been named Chamfer, and I'm quite taken with them. I'm actually wearing them today as I type this. Life's a wee bit busy here at the moment, so I'll have to leave you with just a link to the ravelry page, and a few pictures.
But it’s…Pink
There's a reason I knit on dpns. They generally put an upper limit on how many stitches are in a row or round. I know myself, I know I'll get awfully bored if something is much more than 100 stitches around (which is about where my hats come in). Yet somehow, I find myself working on this. This is not on dpns, and it is way more than 100 stitches per row. It takes a flipping age to get through one row, and yes I do get bored in the middle. It's also shockingly, alarmingly pink, which is utterly out [...]
Helper Cat, Part II
Having seen Levon's efforts to aid household order as in the previous post, Barry decided to get in the action too. He absolutely refused to leave the socks alone so I could get a picture of them. Instead, he sat beside them. He patted them with his paw. He laid on them. He generally made it clear that I was supposed to be taking a picture of him and not of something as inconsequential as a silly sock. So here he is, expressing his displeasure that I'm still putting socks in what should clearly be a picture just of him. [...]
Helper Cat
The Rearranging Of The Bookcases is something of a yearly ritual around these parts. The goal this time was to get rid of a few of the less necessary books (book accumulation is the family curse, and if I don't set strict limits I'll be buried) and so make a bit of room. I packed up a box to send to amazon's trade in service (which is rather nifty, if you don't know about it already it's worth a look) and took another box to Half Price Books. All of this noble purging freed up enough space that I could [...]
Goodies
It's been a little while since we had a giveaway, hasn't it? Let's fix that! Way back when, I mentioned that Suzan at Barking Dog Yarns was using one of the patterns from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet as part of her new sock club. The February shipment just went out so now I can show it to you. It's a lovely clear kelly green, which will look smashing with the Loasa lateritia sock pattern. See? Doesn't it make you think of spring? I've got a skein of the yarn to mail out to one lucky knitter, and I'll send along [...]
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