let’s be straight with each other. technology really, really hates me. it helps explain why i have the most boring blog in the blog-o-sphere. until now. (well actually, that judgment is still yours to make…)
anyway, time to match faces with names.
firstly, the neverending feather and fan scarf. made of Angora Extra 75% angora/25% wool. Color: rose. Size 4 straight needles, started a hell of a long time ago. Yarn is pre-strung by me with some size E seed beads in clear, turquoise, green, purple, and pink. The up-close and the whole deal.
it’s really too bad it itches beyond belief.
Next up: the first sweater i made, in Bernat Soft Chunky 100% acrylic (some shade of grey), on size 10 straights. The general body shaping is adapted from knitty’s Starsky (but it isn’t quite the same), and the cable pattern is my own approximation of a horseshoe cable, since i didn’t want to deal with the leaves on my first project.
you’ll notice the front bottom at the button band rides up. i can’t block the acrylic, and the neck ribbing is what’s pulling it. i’m considering killing the bottom 4 or so inches with the iron….has anyone done this to their acrylic? will i wish i didn’t?
following is the yarn that i kool-aid dyed. it was Cascase 200 Superwash, color 840 (i believe…i threw the tag out, oops). originally a nearly violent shade of lilac, it’s now this bit of beauty after a run-in with some grape and cherry kool-aid and a voracious dyer:
i had forgotten to tie up the skein i wound in multiple places, so i ended up with a huge tangled mess post-microwave. that is the reason i didn’t wrap it back up into a twisted hank to show off the color; i was too busy unknotting it and having no swift, there was just no way.
stockinette on size 7 needles.
and last, but not least, something better of that gorgeous Brookside Yarn Studios <br>superwash hand-dyed merino. ohhhhh, yeah. looking at that stuff, and touching it, and knitting with it, is like grabbing a hot stranger’s butt on the street. you feel a little guilty doing anything to it, but it sure as hell felt satisfying**. here, it’s cast on for that Shimmer sleeve, but i ripped it and a picture of the (too large, i’ve decided!) entrelac scarf shall come.
lovely. i’d say i’m about all caught up right now =)
and i hope i never have to do all this picture-posting ever again. cheers!
-a
