Holy Moses White Ale and Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Great Lakes Brewing Company
It appears that finished objects have been slow to come off the needles lately, although I did finish a pair of socks for Mom.
Pattern: Escalier by Teri Charrois
Yarn: On Your Toes Bamboo in Tidal Blue Multi
Needles: Size 1.5, 2.5 mm
Ravel it!
Mom is allergic to wool, so I had to find an alternative to wool sock yarn. Despite the fact that this yarn has no wool content at all, I really enjoyed using it. It's very soft. Of course, she won't wear the socks until the fall, so how well it wears remains to be seen, but I liked knitting with it enough to use it again. The only bummer is that the skeins are quite short—only 328 yards. To do a larger pair of socks would require two skeins, but then there would be a lot left over.
I have also finished two other projects, but they have gone to the frog pond.
I know, I know. You're all screaming that it's gorgeous and why would I want to frog my Multnomah? It sat finished and blocked for a few weeks before I decided that it just wasn't large enough. I blocked the hell out of it, in fact, I blocked it to the specs in the pattern, but it just wouldn't stay around my neck. I thought about ripping back the feather and fan portion and enlarging the whole thing, but I just didn't know how to estimate whether or not I had enough yarn left to make it as large as I want. So to the frog pond it went. The reclaimed yarn is going to be used to make Simple Things instead. This way, I can just pretty much knit until I run out of yarn.
This was Whipped. I made it for my grandmother, and then I decided that she'd be more likely to wear a scarf than a shawl. So this yarn is becoming the Lacy Kerchief Scarf from the Holiday 2006 issue of Interweave Knits.
How about you? What projects have you sent to the frog pond recently?
1 comment:
Hey, you were in C-town? Great Lakes is a great place to go eat and have a few brews!
I don't have anything going to the frog pond. But then again, I haven't exactly finished anything recently.
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