11 posts tagged “yarn”
Three new scarves posted in my Etsy shop, more coming soon.
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
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My So Called Scarf (Heathcliff)
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
Cloud Around My Neck (Dark Denim Blue)
100% baby alpaca. sooooo soft...
My latest completed knitting project on Knytz, a consignment job I call Cloud Around My Neck that has a new home waiting in the midwest. 100% baby alpaca wool, it is super cozy soft and warm. mmmmmmmm. It is a good length too - double wrapped around my neck there. -->
pedicure socks
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=18194805
fibonacci scarf
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=18193885
and the fibonacci scarf pattern for you DIY folks!
READY
10: K1, *sl 1, K1, psso but before dropping slipped st K into back of it* K1.
20: *P2tog, do not sl sts off needle, P first st again, sl both sts off needle*
30: GOTO 10
RUN
see the start of the project and the stitch pattern detail here.
Awhile back I saw a sample scarf in a yarn store that was absolutely gorgeous, but it took me 15 minutes of internal debate to convince myself it was actually knit and not crochet. Even then I had no clue how to do it – was it knit horizontally? Vertically? The pattern was advertised as free with the purchase of a skein of yarn… and of course the yarn was what I consider crazy expensive ($32.95). So then I spent another 15 minutes debating whether to buy it or not…
I bought it.
Anyway, get to the paying part and ask about the free-pattern-with-yarn, thinking it is from the yarn manufacturer or was designed by someone in house or something. The gal turns to the computer, goes to a website, and prints the pattern. As in, I could have gotten it without buying a skein of yarn if I’d known where to look. The yarn I bought wasn’t even the yarn the pattern calls for – I’m using Lorna’s Laces ‘Lion and Lamb’ 50% silk 50% wool yarn with size 9 needles instead of what the pattern calls for. But OMG this yarn is GORGEOUS and SOFT.
Anyway, the pattern looks crazy complicated, but it is actually insanely easy. After doing the first 2 rows a couple times, I don't need to follow the pattern and I can work on it in autopilot without meticulously counting stitches on every row like my other work-in-progress, which I can't detail here because it is a Christmas gift for someone I know reads my blog. Anyway, I expect I’m going to make many more of these (using more than one skein of a less expensive yarn) and experiment with making them wider and longer (I like long scarves, and this is going to end up being a fairly short and narrow scarf when its done).
I got this done over a hair appt today.
My name is KymPossible, and I am a yarn addict.
This is my yarn stash in my garage, roughly 95% of my total yarn hoard. For reference, the shelving unit holding my yarn is 6'x6', and 16" deep (and yes, those cubbies are filled back to front). I have even more yarn in the house because I have several WIP's (works in progress, for those of my readers not hip to knitta lingo) in the knitting basket by my reading corner. At this point I avoid yarn and craft stores entirely because
1. I recognize I have a problem restraining myself from buying more yarn if it is pretty/feels nice/is on sale/I get excited about a new project and
2. I have enough yarn already to knit for a year probably. In my stash I've got cotton, wool, cashmere, silk, mohair, alpaca, bamboo, chenille, acrylic, hand dyed sock yarn from the Yarn Pirate, baby yarns, sock yarns, bulky yarns... you name it. I cannot knit fast enough to catch up on all the projects I have queued up.
That said, I have managed to finish a couple projects recently. The Transformers washcloth (ok, a small project, but still, I finished it!) a few Zune and iPhone socks, and the subject of my next blogpost, the Fibonacci Scarf.
here it is, the shirt from the couch, where I am going to spend my day snuggled under a red slanket, eating jello, and surfing the web. maybe I'll watch a movie today.
I got this awesome shirt at Defcon from the Jinx booth, and it is finally making its long promised fsf debut. it would be nice if Jinx had this in a girl shirt instead of unisex, but s'ok. its still a very cool shirt.
this week I completed three hats. this is a knitting record for me. Sure, I knit a sweater in a week once, but that was when I had a lot more free time on my hands and was super motivated to knit something for myself to wear. This week I picked up two half finished projects and completed them, AND knit up an entire hat in 4 days. So for the record, I finished
1. the devil hat (which was probably 80% done already),
2. I started a prototype hat on Wednesday at the dentist (yes, I knit while in the dentist chair, and as I mentioned before, I had plenty of time there to work on knitting) and finished that Friday night, and
3. I finished my daughters pink poodle hat that was about 50% done.
She was so funny about this hat - this summer she and I were out and I was looking for a specific yarn for another project. The store didn't have what I needed, but when I turned around she was holding a skein of this yarn and petting it like it was a bunny or something. She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and said "mommy, will you knit me a hat?" Of course we bought the yarn. Every time after that when I'd be knitting in the car, she would say "mommy, are you knitting my hat?" so it was about time I finished it.
yeah, every weekend is princess dress up weekend for her - she was Sleeping Beauty this time. :)
I mentioned the other day my new Yarrrn tshirt I got at DefCon... Well today I ordered these little beauties from Yarn Pirate on etsy...
I can't wait for them to arrive!!!
(FYI for my non-knitter readers; they're knitting needles)
