A finished object in the Project Spectrum department. About 220 yards of Paton’s classic merino in new denim, size H/5.00mm hook. (Maybe this way I’ll remember next time.)
That is all. I could’ve had some really cool photos of the sunlight glittering through ice-coated trees, but it was cold and snowing (yes, snowing while the sun was out) and I chickened out on pulling the truck over to the side of the road since I didn’t want to get stuck.
It’s Wednesday, right? So here are the works-in-progress. (I am working on the photography thing. Clearly I’m not there yet. I’m not sure if this is just a talent that one either possesses or does not possess or if it’s something that can be fixed by reading a book about it. A simple book that does not go completely over my head.)
Both projects are in the current Project Spectrum colors, even.
The search for Woolease in blue mist, in a clash with my general inability to delay gratification of most kinds, led me in the end to the yarn aisle at Meijer, where I called Vicki up and was told that no, the hat really does not at all need to be made of the precise same yarn as the scarf, and I bought Paton’s Classic Merino in new denim instead.
I’m using the rolled-brim hat pattern I always use, the one from that seventies edition of the Reader’s Digest Guide to Needlework. I thought about knitting the hat—I am enthralled with knitting lately, as if you couldn’t tell—but it would be spring by the time I finished a knit hat. Also I was slightly curious to see whether I still in fact know how to crochet. (I do.)
It’s just getting to the point where it’s starting to look less like a yarmulke and more like it will grow up to be a full-size hat. It’ll probably be done in a day or so. Wonkiness in the increases will theoretically be removed by blocking later.
And the ribbed scarf continues to aspire to be worn before the weather warms up. I’m getting a bit faster at knitting, but I’m still much slower at it than crochet.
Do you not just want to snuggle up with that ball of alpaca and love it and squeeze it and call it George? Or is that just me? Maybe it would be going faster if I did more knitting and less fondling of the ball of yarn.
I’m losing my mind here looking for a few skeins of Wool-Ease worsted in the same color I made a scarf out of a while back. I’ve been asked for a hat to go along with said scarf, but I used up the last of it making the scarf.
Hobby Lobby: Looks like it besieged by fun fur faeries since I last visited it. They currently have very little yarn that isn’t furry, fuzzy or nubbly. They do have a little bit of Woolease in the bulky and mega-super-bulky weights, but no worsted or sport, and none in blue mist even in the bulky sizes.
I did not have the good sense to go to the good Joann’s while I was in Columbus, so looking in the only two places around here:
Walmart: Does not appear to sell Woolease of any kind.
Joann’s: I don’t know why I go to the Joann’s that’s closest to me for any reason involving yarn. Suffice to say that they don’t have any either, and furthermore when I tried to buy a skein of rainbow bouclé with my 50% off coupon, I was informed that since it was already on sale, I could only buy it at the sale price of $6 rather than the 50%-off-original-price which would’ve been $4. I am calling bullshit on that. The Joann’s in Pickerington lets me use coupons on sale stuff all the time by just taking the coupon off the original price, and they have about ten times as much yarn as the non-coupon-taking Joann’s does.
I’ve considered using some other yarn entirely, but then it won’t match the scarf. I just can’t find a blue that’s close enough. I looked at the Lion web site and they do still make it in that color and weight, and I’m sure the Joann’s in Pickerington will have it. I’m going to have to hold out until Sunday before I can get over that way, though, which is a bummer because my 50% off coupon expires tomorrow. (I still have one for 40% off, though.)
In other news, I’ve cast on, started, made a mess of and then frogged the candle flame shawl about three times so far. This is notable mainly because I have not gotten to the actual lace pattern yet. I keep screwing up the garter stitch. Dear god. What is up with garter stitch? It should be easy, but it makes me completely insane because it never, ever changes.
I’m going to go home now and, after about four hours of sleep and a twelve-hour shift, do some highly ill-advised knitting. I think I’ll stick to the ribbed scarf, though. It’s very forgiving.
The February/March Project Spectrum colors being blue, white and gray combined with my having gotten a skein of lovely, warm, soft alpaca from Santa have led to this so far:
It may look a bit unexciting—it’s a 2×2 rib—but the yarn is so soft and fuzzy and cozy that it just begged to have something nice and simple done with it. (Yes, I talk to my yarn, and it talks back.)
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