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Well isn’t this a surprise! I actually made something! It was a friend’s birthday on Sunday so I thought I would make her something for a gift. She makes chunky beaded bracelets and she likes to draw skulls, hearts and stars on every available surface, including people if you stand still long enough. So combining these two hobbies, we have skull and heart beads!
Inspired by all the etsy sculpey and fimo users and their fab creations.
I spent a relaxing afternoon watching The Office (British version) on dvd and getting brown lint and fingerprints embedded permanently into their little baked bony heads. I like to think of it as character, spotty, graying, slightly hairy, character. It is the little things, like lint and fingerprints that give an item that hand-made feel. Some might call that unfinished, or unprofessional, or poor quality. But I prefer to call it ‘the personal touch.’
These are simply brimming with ‘the personal touch,’ which thankfully can’t really be noticed from a distance. I think she liked them…
On Monday I went to Wondoflex to get needles for my Tangled Yoke Cardigan, and what’s a girl supposed to do but browse? This is my end of semester present to myself, one ball of Noro Kureyon sock yarn. I found a variety of these hidden up the back with all the self-striping sock yarns, but as far as I’m concerned this is in a whole different class. The colours are so beautiful and they make me think of ponds and waterlilies, sort of in a Monet kind of way, but brighter.
I purchased this one ball, some circular needles, hopped on a tram to a friend’s place, and immediately cast on 30 stitches and swatched my little heart out. Even though I know I’m going to unravel it and start again, I can’t stop knitting my little (but increasingly larger) garter stitch swatch. The colours! I just want to see the next colour!
I did a lot of reading about this yarn and it does feel quite stiff on the ball, but it softens as its worked and I can only imagine that it gets better with wash and wear. I even love the way the yarn goes from thick to thin, which gives simple garter stitch texture and interest. (I am a little bit obsessed with the flexibility of garter stitch, it works with everything! Plus the mindlessness = yay! Or nay, depending on your mood I guess.)
All I know is that I want this to be a scarf. As I see it I have a few options…
(1) Plain garter stitc
(2) 1×1 rib
(3) A selection of large garter mitered (mitred?) squares sewn together
(4) Garter stitch log cabin squares same as above
(5) Bias garter stitch
Oh why can’t I decide!
I will have wide, extremly colourful (but thinnish) scarf, gosh darnit. I will!
