Crossing the finish line...
It's finally finished! After washing and blocking it ended up being eight feet long, so I guess it's a good thing that my brother is slightly taller than my husband pictured here. As you can see, DH was oh so thrilled to be modeling, but the flat photos of the scarf laying on the table just didn't give a good sense of the scale. I suppose it would have been funnier to photograph myself wearing it since it touches the ground if I don't wrap it around my neck once or knot it. I've begun another project with the Featherwisp from Yarn Bee. It's so hideous and looks so much like macrame from the 70s that I'm not sure I want to subject the web to that level of fug by posting a picture of it. I may do it before I frog it, but I doubt it. Some things were just never meant to see the light of day.
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Meanwhile, I wanted to get around to showing off the sock yarn that I have waiting for me. The first is Lion Brand (NAYY) Magic Stripes to make a nice blue sock. Washable seventy-five percent wool, twenty-five percent nylon in the Sea Blue Stripe. I want some of the Bright Spring Pattern that Lion makes in Magic Stripe, but I haven't seen any locally so I may have to eventually order it off their site.
Of course, being told that I'm a "punk" mommy (I prefer to think of myself as more of a classic rocker mommy than punk... punk just conjures up mental pictures of Flock of Seagulls haircuts), I absolutely must have my crayon socks. I can get more skeins of this Bernat (NAYY) Sox yarn locally, so there may end up being a pair of crayons for everyone I know by the end of it all! The only thing that I haven't been able to find is instructions on how to create a sock with a thick cushy sole. Most seem to shy away from this, stating that thick soles are no good in a hand knitted sock, but I know people who not only prefer them that way but almost need them to be that way. Fortunately, I have found what appears to be the most reliable to make a really durable heel that won't wear out too quickly.
Last but not least is the yarn that caused me to break my yarn diet. These little lovelies where on sale at Hobby Lobby at forty percent off! How could I resist three hundred yards per skein of this silky, light, cool, luscious, beautiful, soft, glimmering, shimmering, yummy yarn at that price? And look at those colorways! Simply fantastic. I don't quite have a full idea of what they'll be just yet, but I couldn't leave them sitting on that cold dark store shelf. In case you're wondering what yarn that is, it's Yarn Bee's one hundred percent nylon Featherwisp. I really want it to tell me what it wants to be so that I can see how it knits up!
