Thursday, April 20, 2006

So no stash tonight...

Hogwarts uniform scarf
... just an update on the Hogwart's scarf. I'm done with three of the fourteen trapped bar sequences and I've come to the conclusion that knitting a Harry Potter scarf is a bit like traveling across Texas on I-10. Once in a while there's something interesting, but mostly, it's just a long desolate stretch. Which is ironic, because this scarf will have to cross I-10 in Texas to get to my brother. It's really not that bad as long as I have some TV to watch during the twenty-seven rows of main color between the bars.

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Just two days...

... and more people than I imagined have found this blog! Thanks for the comments and I hope to have stash part two along with an update on the HP PoA scarf later this evening.

I'm also getting notes together on a post I want to write about "open source" knitting, which makes me feel like a brand of geek that can't even be described, but I think it's important. How many times have you seen The Cathedral and the Bazzar by Eric S Raymond referenced in a knitting article? This should get interesting fast.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Stash Yarn, Part One

As I said before, I've got a lot of yarn in the closet that's starting to tell me what it wants to be, which only figures because I'm trying hard to finish the project I'm on before starting anything new. Those yarns will just have to settle with having thier dream pieces listed here with a picture of the still balled yarn. :)

First up is an acrylic mohair-look yarn. I have to love acrylic. It can look like so many other yarns and still be somewhat kid-proof. These two balls here are asking me to make them into a lacy and light triangular shawl, so I guess I'll have to start pattern hunting for them.



Next is a trio of worsted weight acrylics in some yummy coffee shades that want to be a woven stitch skinny scarf. It's only twenty rows, but those rows are four hundred stitches each! I think it'll be worth it though.



Then comes several cottons that are seeking lives in the kitchen. This one wants to be placemats and/or napkins.



This one sees itself more as a dishcloth.



And this fantastic colorway is just aching to recover the worn-out and stuffy formal pattern on my dining room chairs.



Further down the stash pile are four skeins that I rescued from the clearance bin at a local crafts store. They have decided to become pretty blouses for baby girl. One in pink,



and one in some spicier colors. :)



There's more stash to come as I get time to snap and edit photos, so stay tuned!

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...

... because knitting is addictive.

Okay, so what do I have on the needles right now? Hogwart's scarf in the Ravenclaw (film) house colors. I'm making a desperate attempt to finish it before the deadline to mail it to my brother for his birthday. So, I've got about a week and a half to complete a six foot long by eight inch wide scarf (in the round no less, so basically twelve feet by a foot and a half) in order to get it there by the sixth. I ripped it down to the cast on row after realizing what a mess I'd made of the joins and that it was dreadfully wide, so I've just gotten back to this point after only one day of knitting:



Once this one's done, I have another scarf to do for a friend, one for my husband, one for myself and one last one for yet another friend. Meanwhile, my sock yarn and the cotton for my new purse is screaming my name from its storage space inside the closet, but I haven't been able to send my brother anything in years so I'm using all my willpower to stay the course and complete his scarf on time. Then I've got some Sugar-n-Cream cotton that's beginning to whisper that it wants to be a matching set of placemats, napkins and dishtowels for a friend of mine's housewarming at the end of May, not to mention the yummy cotton that wants to become the new upolstery for my dining chairs, maybe a matching table runner... hmmm.....

I hate it when my yarn gangs up on me.

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