Monday, October 17, 2005
The Melanie Mystery Gift Project..
I've gotten the yarn.. I've decided on the pattern.. I've even started and I have about 7 inches done.. but I haven't told yall a darn thing about it!
And.. It's driving me crazy.
So.. Without ferther adue..
The yarn:
It's Plymouth's Dreambaby DK.. and it's so soft.. you just wouldn't believe it... I love knitting with microfiber.. it's just wonderusly wondeful.
I'm a little nervous about the color.. Mel said she wanted "light aqua".. which is harder to find than you'd imagine.. especially durring fall.. but I think I did pretty good.. Plymouth calls that color "Spearmint". I keep going back n forth mentally.. "Is this really the right color? Is it too green?" "Oh this is definitely the right color.. I shouldn't worry at all! She is goin to love it!" "...Well in this light it really does look green.. Green is bad.. she doesn't want green.. she wants AQUA.. and this is green." And so on.. and so on.
Thus is the way my mind works.
The pattern I decided on isn't a boring flat scarf pattern.. I'm really quite fond of the way it's working out.. It is the "Here and There Cables" scarf from Scarf Style. The one thing I don't like is that if I'm not careful I lose my place.. and something wacky happens.... That happened to me last night.. I lost about 3 inches of work.. Rrrrip!!
But I think it's going well... when I end up finishing the first ball of yarn I will measure the lenght of scarf I have and then multiply that by 6... if that ending measurement is insanely long.. Mel will also get a matching hat to go with her scarf.. (Which.. she has no idea about at all.. I didn't even intend on making a hat.. but this yarn seems to be lasting a long time!)
I'm real glad I picked up those new cable needles at the yarn shop.. Handily enough.. on the cable row I can stick the needle in my ring and it stays there till I need it... This cuts down on "Now where did I put that cable needle.. it was RIGHT HERE.. I just sat it down 6 sts ago!!" quite a bit. If I work on this scarf at work.. my cable needle will live in my ring the entire time... I cannot lose that cable needle!
Well.. I better go work on some school work... Stupid school.. cutting in on my knitting time. Grr.
I've gotten the yarn.. I've decided on the pattern.. I've even started and I have about 7 inches done.. but I haven't told yall a darn thing about it!
And.. It's driving me crazy.
So.. Without ferther adue..
The yarn:
It's Plymouth's Dreambaby DK.. and it's so soft.. you just wouldn't believe it... I love knitting with microfiber.. it's just wonderusly wondeful.
I'm a little nervous about the color.. Mel said she wanted "light aqua".. which is harder to find than you'd imagine.. especially durring fall.. but I think I did pretty good.. Plymouth calls that color "Spearmint". I keep going back n forth mentally.. "Is this really the right color? Is it too green?" "Oh this is definitely the right color.. I shouldn't worry at all! She is goin to love it!" "...Well in this light it really does look green.. Green is bad.. she doesn't want green.. she wants AQUA.. and this is green." And so on.. and so on.
Thus is the way my mind works.
The pattern I decided on isn't a boring flat scarf pattern.. I'm really quite fond of the way it's working out.. It is the "Here and There Cables" scarf from Scarf Style. The one thing I don't like is that if I'm not careful I lose my place.. and something wacky happens.... That happened to me last night.. I lost about 3 inches of work.. Rrrrip!!
But I think it's going well... when I end up finishing the first ball of yarn I will measure the lenght of scarf I have and then multiply that by 6... if that ending measurement is insanely long.. Mel will also get a matching hat to go with her scarf.. (Which.. she has no idea about at all.. I didn't even intend on making a hat.. but this yarn seems to be lasting a long time!)
I'm real glad I picked up those new cable needles at the yarn shop.. Handily enough.. on the cable row I can stick the needle in my ring and it stays there till I need it... This cuts down on "Now where did I put that cable needle.. it was RIGHT HERE.. I just sat it down 6 sts ago!!" quite a bit. If I work on this scarf at work.. my cable needle will live in my ring the entire time... I cannot lose that cable needle!
Well.. I better go work on some school work... Stupid school.. cutting in on my knitting time. Grr.
-Kim- 4:57 PM
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I'm a tiny short woman who loves to knit clothes that actually fit me. I first learned to knit when I was about 10 but I never got beyond knit and purl. I didn't pick up knitting again till about 2 years ago, and now with the help of tons of library books, I'm chugging along and I think I'm pretty darn good : ) I'm married, and love my Australian husband dearly.
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