June 24, 2004
Bet You Didn't Expect This
So sometimes you come home after a nice dinner after the ballet and you just want to find a pair of US 2 circular needles so you can cast on a sleeve using the 2circs method. And you find a size 6, and a 4, and a bunch of threes. And no matter where you look, you can't find a *@#%^&ing 2 anywhere.
So you think, well, which project do I feel like picking up? Then you remember that you saw a woman wearing a purple wrap at the ballet and how it made you want to knit something purple. And then you remember that you have one project someplace towards the bottom of your WIP pile that includes a little bit of purple someplace in part of some of the variegated yarn in it... and so you knit a few rows of the sleeve-in-progess. And you get this:
And you still don't know where your US 2's are, but you got to spend a few hours knitting intarsia with a lovely merino/silk blend. And the sleeve is now a few inches longer. And that's a good thing.
(The weird thing I just found out? I googled "alchemy synchronicity yarn" and I was first: ahead of the company that makes the yarn!)
I a-freaking-dore that blue cabley goodness. Your own design? My god, man, gorgeous.
And hey, did you ever tell us what WAS in the box with the heilo? All I can think of are things that aren't fit to put in a comment box....
Posted by: Rachael at June 24, 2004 07:23 AMRachael: The cable pattern itself wasn't my design but the overall design of the sweater was (with some help from Laura at The Yarn Co.). The box from Da Boys included all the Heilo and two skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock -- in the Black Purl colorway which is to die for. Nummy!
Posted by: Jon at June 24, 2004 12:29 PMThat's cuz all the 2's are at MY house! I was cleaning up and trying to organize my circs and found not 2, not 4, but SIX #2s in 16in. What on earth?!?
Posted by: Karen at June 24, 2004 12:30 PM