Yarnification

Hey, folks, I know of someone who’s in dire need of some Caron Jewel Box in tiger eye. It seems it’s been discontinued, three quarters of the way through her afghan. If anyone knows anything, please leave a comment or email me and I’ll pass on the information or put you in touch with each other or what have you. Thanks!

And! I got my Knitpicks package yesterday! We hadn’t gotten around to going to the post office since Friday, all while I kept thinking “why isn’t it here yet where is it where is it where is it???” Er. Duh. So I have all that lovely yarn to pet, and a new pattern, and I need to go to Hobby Lobby with my 40% off coupon and get a set of needles to do this one pattern.

Oh. Um. Have any of you done that Janet lace shawl? I have read the pattern (sorta, inasmuch as I tend to skim without realizing and then later find out I missed crucial details) and it says you need a size 11 circular needle and size 11 dpns. Okay, now I see at the beginning where you cast on and divide amongst the dpns. I’ve got that part. But I don’t see where you ever switch to using the circular needle? Also I have The Fear of dpns. They still make me crazy. I wonder if I can do the whole thing on a circ, or if that’s a ludicrous idea since you start with just a few stitches—I’ve never used a circular needle before so I’m a little hazy on how it works, and probably I should read one of my many needlework reference books before going any further. Hmm. Maybe giant dpns will be easier to deal with than the teensy weensy ones I keep trying to learn to use.

My confusion re the dpns and the circular needle will doubtless turn out to be another case of inability to follow directions, but if anyone’s done this pattern I’d love any input.

Also you are still free to laugh at me for thinking that knitting lace is a reasonable expectation what with how I have only recently got the hang of knitting decently at all.

I’ve just joined Project Spectrum again. Last time around I sorta petered out partway through (read: I completely forgot that I was allegedly participating) but the months I did it, it was fun.

On an unrelated note, I’m going to be changing the URL of this blog because I am a pain in the ass. The current link will work permanently because I’m setting up a redirect to the new location, but I’m going to move it from here to yarnification.daisywreath.net just for the sake of simplicity. There may be wonkiness, broken blog, or generalized mayhem during the changeover. Once I get around to it, that is.