Uncharacteristic
This is not like me. Not at all. It's thick yarn (Capella by SpaceCadet). It's huge needles. It's bright colors. It's a very mellow, unstructured cable. This is more or less the complete opposite of my normal approach. And I'm more or less smitten. I'll be over here petting the pretty. Try not to be too jealous.
Brrrr
So while the cold weather took its own sweet time getting here, now that it's here it seems to want to stay a while. I'm fighting back in traditional knitter fashion. Wool. Both in the form of socks, and on the needles as a talisman against snow. Some day we knitters will learn casting on a new project isn't the best response to being cold, but today is not that day
Starburst
I have strong feelings about hat tops. Which is probably silly, as when you're wearing your hat most people can't actually see the top of your head. But the feelings persist. Which is why I'm unreasonably amused by this. I love love love a flat hat top (the secret is to decrease alarmingly fast), and this is no exception. But if you take that and add in a wee starburst of the most cheerful yarn ever (Capella in Tantrum by SpaceCadet)? I'm going to be doing a serious happy dance.
Tip Top
Hat? Hat! Fast? Unreasonably so. Amusing? More than I would ever have expected. Colorwork? Yup...and it's my first go at it, and I'm bad at it, and I still had fun. Slightly sloppy insides and all. More? Oh yes. There will both be more hats in this series and at least one more shot of this hat...the top is too damn cute not to share. Soon. Very soon.
New Skills
Bear in mind I know nothing at all about colorwork. This is the first proper project I've even sort of tried it on. But with that in mind, I really do rather like how this is coming out (I'd take it as a kindness if you'd refrain from telling me all the things I'm doing wrong...I'm just enjoying the pretty for now, I'll learn what I should be doing later). I'm starting with the wee spikes all nestled up close to one another. Then after a while they start drifting farther and farther apart. Assuming this relaxes and evens out [...]
Smug, so very very smug
Public Service Announcement: Your swatch doesn't count if you don't block it. Remember the photo of the swatch I showed you last time? Take a look at it after a little soak! Totally different beast (with a whole stitch per inch difference in gauge). If I'd started the project without blocking the swatch, the finished project would have been way way way too big. I also feel like blocking the swatch helped me decide which color to go with (which was proving unreasonably challenging when I was just staring at the yarn). Tantrum it is. But don't feel bad if [...]
Pretty sure it’s become a scheme at this point
The other day I had an idea. It led to swatching (always a good step). Then came an email to Stephanie (of SpaceCadet fame) with a bit of a plan. We're still working on a few of the details but a plot is now definitely afoot. Yarn showed up (the gray is Cressida in Dark Skies, the pink-y orange is Capella in Tantrum and the purple-ish blue one is Capella in Molten Cool). And a swatch happened. And now we might be in the graph paper and doodling stage. It's a fun stage. You should expect to see more of [...]
Changeful
You know how, when you're knitting, there's always a little voice saying 'you know, you could also try it this way...?' But you never get to really indulge that voice because if you did, you'd never actually finish anything? Well, Changeful are my attempt at indulging that inner voice! It all started with a lovely, zig-zaggy stitch pattern that looked quite marvelous all on its own. But as charming as that is, sometimes you don't actually want to knit the same thing for a whole sock. And there just happened to be a couple of points where you could clip [...]
Snuggle
Excuse me, I'll just be over here curled up in this. I'm going to be blocking it tomorrow, at which point it will become all open and structured and tidy and formal. But wow if there isn't something special about it in its fresh-off-the-needles state. The yarn totally helps with that (it's Maia by SpaceCadet, and you should probably go get some now before I snag it all). If the sun ever comes out again it will look all glowy and bright, but for now it's a lovely moody thing and I adore it even more this way!
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