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So instead of writing, this is what my Muse decided to send me this week:
Yup, I done knit myself some gloves. Ph3ar the skillz. For the knitgeeks, the specs of these are: Brown Sheep "Lamb's Pride" worsted @ 6 stitches/inch (US4) in "Lemon Drop" and "Sapphire", from the pattern in Interweave's Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns. They "match", well, are made from the leftover yarn from anyway, a hat I've also made myself recently -- the "fur" at the cuff is an eyelash yarn called Flash, which makes a bit more sense in this context than it does on the hat. One can see the needles at the bottom of the yellow-palmed specimen because I wasn't entirely happy with the way the rolled cuffs came out and decided to try out going back and picking up stitches for a secondary ribbed cuff, since there's still a bit of yarn left.
The thing that frightens me is that I only bought the needles for this project on Saturday. My knitting speed has gone so far up since I learned to crochet that it isn't even funny. In addition to the "matching" hat, I've also made a more respectable black "fur" hat, and started turning some of the random Stash in the house into more hats that I shall probably end up trying to pawn off on whoever comes to the LJ MeetUps all this winter. So if anybody needs a hat for this winter, and doesn't mind it being pink, just holler...
(And no, I don't remember why we have so much pink yarn in the house, especially considering that it would have to have survived the Stash Purge the last time we moved. Presumably it was on sale, or something, but since neither of us can wear pink, it's somewhat mysterious as to why that got kept in particular.)
Yup, I done knit myself some gloves. Ph3ar the skillz. For the knitgeeks, the specs of these are: Brown Sheep "Lamb's Pride" worsted @ 6 stitches/inch (US4) in "Lemon Drop" and "Sapphire", from the pattern in Interweave's Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns. They "match", well, are made from the leftover yarn from anyway, a hat I've also made myself recently -- the "fur" at the cuff is an eyelash yarn called Flash, which makes a bit more sense in this context than it does on the hat. One can see the needles at the bottom of the yellow-palmed specimen because I wasn't entirely happy with the way the rolled cuffs came out and decided to try out going back and picking up stitches for a secondary ribbed cuff, since there's still a bit of yarn left.
The thing that frightens me is that I only bought the needles for this project on Saturday. My knitting speed has gone so far up since I learned to crochet that it isn't even funny. In addition to the "matching" hat, I've also made a more respectable black "fur" hat, and started turning some of the random Stash in the house into more hats that I shall probably end up trying to pawn off on whoever comes to the LJ MeetUps all this winter. So if anybody needs a hat for this winter, and doesn't mind it being pink, just holler...
(And no, I don't remember why we have so much pink yarn in the house, especially considering that it would have to have survived the Stash Purge the last time we moved. Presumably it was on sale, or something, but since neither of us can wear pink, it's somewhat mysterious as to why that got kept in particular.)
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