More yarn!

 I finished several things since last I posted:  Twist Again sweater, slippers, bananas socks, Dolores’ latest outfit, and the Secret Admirer shawl.  I bailed on the Victorian scarf.  It is not fun to try and figure out how I need to do something so my knitting matches what the designer intended.  My fault, not the design.  Now I have some yarn to use when a pattern using a long slow shade change comes along.

I wasn’t quite ready to start another sweater, so I picked a hat pattern.  It has dragons on it.  I decided to do it in the colors of the Welsh flag.  I like Wales and found out recently that some of my English DNA may be Welsh.  Perfect, right?  Guess what colors I did not have in my stupidly large stash?

Loveknitting had them.

Back to square one:  tons of yarn and nothing to apply to something I wanted to knit.  I decided I wanted to a vest.  Long story short, yarn should arrive Monday.  I then decided I wanted to make the Hemisphere hat.  Do I have the equivalent of Malabrigo Twist in land and sea colors?  Of course I did not, but Jimmy Beans did.

That pile of things is more than two skeins of Malabrigo.  I wanted to cheer up after yet another day of cleaning up after a chronically barfing cat.  Jimmy Beans has a deal with three skeins of Tosh Merino Light packed in a Namaste snap top bag (the purple thing behind the pile).  The colors are yummy and I refuse to feel bad about buying it.

Now I have to decide which hat to start with or if I want to keep working on the sweater.  Yeah, the sweater I was avoiding that started all of this.

Done, Working, Waiting February edition

Done are two more hats from Millarochy Heids.  The chevron hat was done using leftovers from the previous hats.  It gives a totally different look from the pattern which has only three colors.  No, they have not been blocked yet.

Working are three projects.  I am on the second sleeve of my Twist Again sweater.  I will probably finish it before anything else.  The banana socks are on hold.

I  started the Victorian Knit-Along scarf, but plan to start it over again.  I knit in an odd way and have to do lace knitting in a different way from written instructions.  It is even more complicated in this pattern.  Franklin Habit has taken 19th century knitting instructions and rewritten them.  I am more motivated to work on my sweater than figuring out how to reproduce modernized antique stitches.

Waiting are several things:

• Secret Admirer shawl KAL starts next week.
• Bleatnik Poetic Ensemble yarn was just now pulled from the mailbox.

• Human sized Bleatnik sweater pattern has not been released yet.
• Slippers from a skein of Spunky Eclectic yarn.  I read that there were people trying to get a boycott going of Spunky Eclectic.  The reason was so stupid and false that I promptly ordered yarn and forgot exactly what was supposed to make people not want to buy the yarn,  I think it is better that way.  There’s more than enough nonsense out there without repeating it
• Embroidery projects.  These are saved so I have something to do when a knitting project drives me to screaming and throwing things.

Sheep and human knits

I had a really bad time with the last Dolores outfit. I am not going to whine about it, but I did swear off doing any more.

That lasted until today.  I thought that the new Bleatnik Poetic outfit was cute.  It is a top with lace sleeves and a lace panel and can be worn with the panel in front or back.  I read a funny post by the designer about working with Dolores the diva.  At the end, she said that there will be a human version of the same top.  It does look like the sheep version but quite nice.  I don’t think it would be right to copy the picture, so go to Patty Lyons website to see it.  I do want to make one for myself.

As for Dolores, she’s getting one too.