brain splodey
The parts arrived for my wheel last night but I haven't set them up yet - I've been a bit lazy with it recently. I always get that when I strike any difficulties with new creative projects: it gets dumped in the too-hard basket if I'm not perfect at it straight away. I will force myself to endeavour with it, though.
Started another Nippertails hat on Sunday night using some lovely mohair yarn. It was originally a whole lot of 5" squares I scored for $4 from the op-shop: someone had knitted them up in garter stitch to make up into a sweater or maybe an afghan, so I gently unfrogged it all and ended up with a small amount of greyish-blue, a ball of greyish-pink and a ball of dark pink. I also had a little brownish-blue which I added to the mix, so now it graduates in colour. It's looking very pretty so far, and my knitting speed has much improved.
Going through a very enthused patch at present, but I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do! The Craftster knitting forums will be the death of me, I swear. I'm getting excited about doing a multi-yarn version of this stripey shrug, and I realised that this hoodie would be great to make out of the green marle Aran wool I'm unfrogging from a friend's unwanted project when I'm ready to move onto cables, and I want to make this capelet as well... *sigh* Tell me why I work full-time again? Oh yeah, bills and mortgage and food and boring old stuff like that... :(
Lots of people coming to stay this weekend for our friends' civil union on Saturday - it'll be lots of fun, but doesn't leave time to do much crafty stuff.
Started another Nippertails hat on Sunday night using some lovely mohair yarn. It was originally a whole lot of 5" squares I scored for $4 from the op-shop: someone had knitted them up in garter stitch to make up into a sweater or maybe an afghan, so I gently unfrogged it all and ended up with a small amount of greyish-blue, a ball of greyish-pink and a ball of dark pink. I also had a little brownish-blue which I added to the mix, so now it graduates in colour. It's looking very pretty so far, and my knitting speed has much improved.
Going through a very enthused patch at present, but I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do! The Craftster knitting forums will be the death of me, I swear. I'm getting excited about doing a multi-yarn version of this stripey shrug, and I realised that this hoodie would be great to make out of the green marle Aran wool I'm unfrogging from a friend's unwanted project when I'm ready to move onto cables, and I want to make this capelet as well... *sigh* Tell me why I work full-time again? Oh yeah, bills and mortgage and food and boring old stuff like that... :(
Lots of people coming to stay this weekend for our friends' civil union on Saturday - it'll be lots of fun, but doesn't leave time to do much crafty stuff.
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Anyway, the yarn she uses is gorgeous (albeit EXPENSIVE!), but chunky yarn, coupled with ribbing and horizontal stripes don't make the most flattering of garments.
If I were to re-do it, I'd definitely re-work it to do stockinette only, and definitely no stripes.
Didn't mean to put you off, you may have the most slender arms in the world, in which case it would work a treat... sadly I don't :(
xxx
PS: Sorry, I didn't mean to delete the previous comment, oops! :)