Jon's Knit Blog

Need More Light!

Oh, wait... I got a new light bulb in Ohio. And I got a lot of yarn, too.

Let's start off with the two gorgeous hand painted skeins.

On the left, a rayon boucle-ish yarn from Blue Heron, in a colorway named Tulip. On the right, a skein of Petite Voodoo, a lightweight silk/wool blend from Twisted Sisters. It's label-less, so I don't know the name of the lovely pink and gray colorway. The shop model, for which they were out of the pattern, is an amazing cabled rib scarf. I copied down enough info to where I should be able to make one.

Next, we have eight skeins of Diamusee, in a colorway which appears to suck the light both from the room and from the flash of the camera. I hope you can get a bit of a sense of the purples, greys and greens in this colorway.

Of course, you know I like Butterfly 10, although I wish the color, particularly of the beautiful royal blue, would have come out better. And I also bought another skein of the Giotto, bright pink with hints of orange. I guess I should learn the name of this colorway. I'm going to make another of the ruffled scarf, I believe. Also for a 6 or 7 year old girl. This one is going to be the flower girl in my sister's wedding this summer.

And am I not wrong to think that this:

is possibly the absolute cutest yarn in the entire universe? It's Lorna's Lace's Angel (70% angora, 30% lambswool) in two tiny little skeins. I meant to put something next to them to give you an idea of scale, but I forgot. I don't even think I'm going to knit this yarn. I just want it to sit in a beautiful glass bowl and simply... just... look pretty.

And are you ready for a complete surprise? I bought something that has absolutely no relation to yarn:

Fifteen (thought you can't see them all) fat quarters. That's right. I'm going to try my hand at quilting. Because I don't have enough to keep me busy just with my yarn. I mean, having a hugely complicated intarsia project, a lace baby sweater, and who knows what all else, well, that's just not enough!

Speaking of said complicated intarsia project, I knit two rows (not two rows of blocks, just two rows) this evening. It took an incredibly long time because I think I figured out, on this go-across, how to work a color-change row without leaving any ends to weave in. I think that this row is only going to require the snip-snip of my dear Gingher scissors and it will be ready to go. God, I hope I'm right, because if I am, well, the color-change rows will be complicated, but there won't be any weaving in to do. Hope along with me, please?

Posted by Jon at April 4, 2005 03:17 AM