What I have been up to lately: avoiding housework, biting my fingers to keep from casting on the million gorgeous sweaters that have been circulating on Ravelry, and speed knitting through some long awaiting WIPs. Here are a few that I finished up recently:
A 28thirty sweater knit in Wild Apple Hill Farm wool from Rhinebeck 2008. This sweater generates heat on it's own - I am excited to test it out when the the cold weather sets in.
A "Fall Chill" hat & scarf set. I used three skeins of Punta Yarns Merisoft Hand Painted Aran that I found at Rhinebeck in the fall of 2009. The tags claimed that the skeins were all from the same dye lot, but they were visibly much different - one more red, one more blue, and one more yellow. I knit this in mistake rib and alternated rows for about ten inches each time I was about to run out of a skein. So the color change actually works well.
A seed stitch scarf knit along the long side until the yarn was gone. Knit with 1 skein of Periwinkle Sheep Watercolors II sock yarn that I purchased at a craft show in Troy, NY, just before Christmas last year. I think the colorway looks like Eggplant and Carhartt...
The photo quality is eh but this is how we learn. Plus I may have had too much coffee this morning and I may be a little self-conscious that my neighbors will catch me out on my front porch in the heat, wrapped in scarves and sitting in silly poses. I get what I am doing, and if you are a knitter, you do too. The rest of the world? Only if they already love a knitter.
