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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

I'm a Big Ole Party Pooper..

This is for April:

My 5th sentance of my 23rd post was: Hopefully atleast one of these'll work out with how much I have of each color.. (4 Sky blue, and 3 River Blue)

But I.. as a party pooper.. do not want to tag 5 people..

What is amusing about that is that I am STILL talking about that yarn.. That yarn became my Voli (and I think I may have enough for another, with reverse striping as the one I ended up making.)

Over the weekend I got three mini-swatches done.. I decided that to save time and bordom that I would knit swatches that are 16 sts wide, with 2 sts on each side in garter stitch to prevent some rolling.



I have learned things:

1. The darker blue does bleed a tiny bit, but does not change color in any way. (Atleast, not to the naked eye.. I do not have a microscope. lol.)
2. Knitting a swatchlet in 30 minutes is VERY gratifying.
3. Putting shine through the washer and dryer results in VERY soft feeling yarn, with minimal streaking of the light blue yarn. This is the method I may end up using.
4. Washing with Ivory soap seemed to be a little better than Woolite, but not much. The upside? Ivory is WAY cheaper than woolite.. so I may end up buying it from now on.

I have yet to try the vinegar.. I gave up knitting swatches in lue of doing some school work.. (I do phases: knitting, school, knitting, school. It seems to be working out.) but maybe I'll do one swatch tonight before bed.

I also made another Ebay purchase... I got a set of my favorite brand of crochet hooks so that I'll have the knitters arsenal that I really need. (It includes the size I think I need for my Voli edging.)

I have to admit though.. I feel a little dirty for having a crochet hook prefrence.. I do not crochet. Ever. I only use the hooks for knitting.. but I hate the shape of Boye crochet hooks.. I hate the shape so much that I gave up my only Boye crochet hook to the bathroom for pulling out nasty gooky hair from the drains. I am Highly and Substantially biased and attached to Susan Bates crochet hooks.. The shape is perfect.. (The Boye shape causes the loops to get all tiny before they go over the hook and then they get STUCK which makes me SO frustRATED.) Lionbrand smartly coppied the Susan Bates shape with their hooks.. but the Lionbrand plastic is STUPID and annoying.


That gold one is the gooky sink drain one... Ewww.

What is more annoying is that Wal*Mart no longer sells Susan Bates hooks.. they only sell friggin Boye hooks.. (Which I HATE.) so I thought we should go to JoAnns to get my hook, but Brad doesn't like driving there.. and then when we saw their shipping costs we decided to check out Ebay.

So 6 different Susan Bates hooks should be on their way to me shortly.. which is gonna be quite nice.
-Kim-   1:27 AM
 


2 Comments:

HEHE..I did not want to tag people either but felt I had to keep up the game for some reason. I chose people i didn't know because I didn't want to annoy anyone lol
Kim, at 9/20/2005 4:50 PM  
Thank you dear, I could only tag 4 after all,(cause I lost my nerve) and hopefully only 3 of those will hate me for it. Say it ain't you, Kim! PLEASE!! Frantic begging is SO attractive on me, I know.
April, at 9/20/2005 7:44 PM  

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