Yarnification

Thanks to everyone who responded to that one post last week; getting to hear everyone’s goals was really cool!

And also a big thank you to Kristina for letting me know the feed merge worked. Now to get the rest of the site working. I haven’t fixed the broken images problem yet because honestly it is going to be tedious. I tried to solve it with clever technogeekery but only succeeded in breaking the site entirely.

Hey, have y’all heard about this? I saw an entry in the Make blog about this awesome-sounding exhibit at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York on radical lace and subversive knitting. That blog entry links to more photos as well as the actual museum web site and all. That crochet tablecloth with the skulls? That totally kicks ass. I desperately want to go.

Apart from my perennial unfinished projects, I’m sorta between projects right now. All I’ve made since last time I posted is a couple of dishcloths, which I did not bother to take photos of. I’m going to start the candle flame shawl next, I think, but first I need to do the Dreaded Practice Swatch in worsted weight yarn to make sure I get the hang of all that yo/k2tog/yo/ssk stuff.

Once I’ve got that under control, I’m starting the shawl on those little bitty needles. They’re straights, so I decided that would be a better starter than doing the Janet lace wrap first what with that pattern using a set of dpns and a circ, even though it is a bigger needle size.

This is the yarn I’m going to make those two shawls with. I turned up here and oohed and aahed when the box came, but then I never took a picture of it in all its glory.

Kittycat is supervising. Both yarns are from Knitpicks. On the right is Shimmer in Maple Leaf. I love those colors—I could eat that yarn up with a spoon, it’s that yummy. That’s what I’m using for the candle flame shawl. On the left with all that great red and purple everywhere is Gossamer in Red Hat, which is destined to be the Janet lace wrap.

Someone please tell me I am not crazy.