Sunday, August 14, 2005
Tiny Puddles...
I decided to use my knitting skill (and a bit of stash) today for good and not evil.
Now.. typically I really hate coasters.. and have always hated them.. but since it got hot and Brad and I have been drinking more drinks with ice in them.. there have been puddles left on our desk that have been driving me bonkers.
So.. I whipped out these coasters out of some tiny leftovers of Rowan Handknit DK Cotton. I think they'll work out niceley.
In other knitting news.. My friend Melanie's birthday was a few days ago and I decided that I wanted to knit her something.. We're always late with eachother's birthday gifts.. so they usually just merge into birthday/Christmas gifts in the end. So when we visited the other day we were at Michael's and I did some investigation into what kind of yarns she likes. She really wants me to make her a scarf.. and it has to be a light aqua color (It was a very popular color in the baby yarns.)
This should be a fun project.. but I don't know if I'll be able to write about it here cause she now knows about this blog... I wonder if she will be snooping around.... Hmmm!
It'll be fun though.. I'll get to go to the yarn stores and brouse around for yarns.. Melanie got to know the fun of petting yarn.. I think she's starting to understand the allure of knitting. (Maybe.. a little bit.)
I requested Scarf Style from my local library.. it's already in transit so I should be able to look through it soon... Hopefully something'll be in there that I think she'd like... She seems to want something interesting, but also clean and modern.. (She said she liked the Wave scarf from Knitty.) But I don't think I'll make that one cause she already knows about it.. but it does give me a good jump off for what she likes. I haven't made a scarf in a pretty long time... Actually I've only made two scarves in my entire knitting career... I guess that's what happens when you're a Texas knitter.
So I'm looking forward to it... but it'll be so hard not to talk about it..
I decided to use my knitting skill (and a bit of stash) today for good and not evil.
Now.. typically I really hate coasters.. and have always hated them.. but since it got hot and Brad and I have been drinking more drinks with ice in them.. there have been puddles left on our desk that have been driving me bonkers.
So.. I whipped out these coasters out of some tiny leftovers of Rowan Handknit DK Cotton. I think they'll work out niceley.
In other knitting news.. My friend Melanie's birthday was a few days ago and I decided that I wanted to knit her something.. We're always late with eachother's birthday gifts.. so they usually just merge into birthday/Christmas gifts in the end. So when we visited the other day we were at Michael's and I did some investigation into what kind of yarns she likes. She really wants me to make her a scarf.. and it has to be a light aqua color (It was a very popular color in the baby yarns.)
This should be a fun project.. but I don't know if I'll be able to write about it here cause she now knows about this blog... I wonder if she will be snooping around.... Hmmm!
It'll be fun though.. I'll get to go to the yarn stores and brouse around for yarns.. Melanie got to know the fun of petting yarn.. I think she's starting to understand the allure of knitting. (Maybe.. a little bit.)
I requested Scarf Style from my local library.. it's already in transit so I should be able to look through it soon... Hopefully something'll be in there that I think she'd like... She seems to want something interesting, but also clean and modern.. (She said she liked the Wave scarf from Knitty.) But I don't think I'll make that one cause she already knows about it.. but it does give me a good jump off for what she likes. I haven't made a scarf in a pretty long time... Actually I've only made two scarves in my entire knitting career... I guess that's what happens when you're a Texas knitter.
So I'm looking forward to it... but it'll be so hard not to talk about it..
-Kim- 9:20 PM
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I like that wave pattern as well, I hadn't seen it before. I bought some light aqua jaeger merino on sale last winter at my LYS and I've been trying to figure out what pattern to use. That one is tempting as it matches the pattern on my down vest that's the same pattern but I think it would be a little same-same so I think I'll keep thinking of other ideas.