If you'll notice I put another project "in the grind" in my sidebar. Yes, I went stash-diving and started a pair of the Fetching Fingerless Gloves from the latest issue of Knitty. I'm using my Takhi/Stacy Charles "Shannon," which I find is a discontinued yarn. I bought two balls of this at The Black Sheep while visiting San Diego in September 2004, before I learned to knit but while I was still haunting yarn stores during the LOTR Sweater days. At the time, I decided that I would allow myself to bring home two skeins or balls of some gourmet yarn whenever I traveled, a kind of pre-blog-awareness embryonic attempt at yarn crawling. As a result, my stash includes two balls each of several yarns that I have no idea about what to do with. Nowadays I just aim for the sock yarn and have done with it.
The T/SC "Shannon" is a beautiful smokey turquoise worsted weight 100% wool, with a very slim pastel mulitcolor ply. Knitted, it looks like Cezanne wiped his brushes on my gloves, which I find beautiful. I'm saving some of this yarn as I plan to try to dye and spin something similar. I'd wear a sweater out of this stuff, but as I recall it was something like nine dollars a skein so that wasn't going to happen. And now they don't make it any more so I'll have to spin my own.
My fingerless gloves are turning out well, so far. I've passed the cable-twist section and am in the long 4x1 ribbing part on the first glove. It's perfect lunchbreak knitting as you can crank out rounds fairly quickly, and put it down readily.
At least I went stash-diving, okay?
What about the Psycho Stripes Socks, you ask? I'm almost afraid to write about them. You see, I dropped a stitch. But not just any stitch, I somehow dropped one of the slip stitch side stitches on the heel flap and I'm still too much of a newbie to figure out how to fix it.. I just need time and good light to mess around with it until I get it fixed, probably by un-knitting down a few rows. This is exactly how I ended up frogging the Wildfootes earlier this year, though, and I don't want to repeat my error. So I'm saving the un- and re-knit for a quiet hour or two in daylight. And oh -- I still don't know what the stripe repeat pattern will look like. I'm down to the heel flap and haven't hit a real repeat yet.
Our LYS received a new stock of sock yarns (and other yarns) recently, and I was in the other day admiring the replenished pile of Sockotta. They have three new colors that I haven't knitted yet, plus two old ones that I haven't put in the stash yet.
You'll also note that I added a new category to the sidebar for those half-finished projects that have been hanging around literally for years. Maybe if I put them up there I'll think about them more and pick them up and do them. The Nutcracker Ornament, by the way, has been washed and dried, and will be pressed, sewn up, and finished this weekend.
Riiiiight. No, really, I will.
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