An annoyingly bad knitting spell here. Those scalloped lace socks I picked back up? I set a goal to have them finished by Monday**. I guess I never really tried them on or checked my gauge or whatever. I just finished the last pattern repeat before the heel and thought to admire my work with it actually on my leg. Um. Yeah. They don't fit. With much pulling and tugging, I did manage to get them over my heel. Hand-knit tourniquet, anyone? Off to the frog pond. I think I'll have to retry them on the 2.75 mm Inox needles.
The ones coming from Spin Blessing (probably on **Monday), where Susan Kincaid was kind enough to check the sizing stamped on the needle tips and email me back to let me know they actually ARE 2.75 mm. WOO HOO!
In the meantime, I decided to do a bit of layout of the fishy blanket. I don't want to start sewing it until I have all the fish I need (so I can lay it out all perfect like and then bag each column separately in a ready-to-be-sewn, anal fashion). I think I've settled on 8 columns of 20 fish. 160 fish. I counted what I have so far--piles and piles of fishies. I was sure I must have more than a hundred. Maybe enough to finish up and get started on the sewing this weekend? Nope. Eighty-two. Barely more than half. *sob*
Turned to Em, "I have nothing to do."
"Knit fish," tossed out as she knits Embossed Leaves with my yarn and my needles.
I glared at the back of her head and clicked to check what my crafty Sybermom friends are doing. Dixie/snappah is still trying to decide on a shawl pattern for the 2500+ yards of cornflower blue, recycled laceweight cashmere she scored on eBay. I tried to talk her into knitting peacock feathers for her bestest friend, Twinsanity. Though she did say I am always so helpful, she is considering other patterns. And for herself. Apparently, I am not her bestest friend. Sheesh.
But...let's go back to that yarn she scored-- "recycled" What, exactly, does that mean? Off to check out her link to the seller's store.
Oh. My. The seller buys sweaters at thrift shops and then deconstructs them for the yarn. I remember guffawing (I've never used the word "guffaw" in my life) in amusement and disbelief at a tutorial link posted by a Sybermom a couple years ago. Too. Much. Work.
But...let's go back to that yarn Dixie scored. Over 2500 yards (possibly enough to make TWO peacock feather shawls) of laceweight cashmere. In a lovely shade of blue. For $46, including shipping. *faint*
My "Em, let's go to Goodwill!" earned me the "moms are really weird" teenage look. But we were off to Goodwill, Em still in her pajama pants (shh, I promised I wouldn't mention that part). And, after madly sorting through the entire store (which smells "funny," by the way) and then sorting through what we pulled from the racks and then putting half of those back--here's what we...er..."scored" for ten bucks.
The stripey one is a silk/linen blend, the other two are silk from the same designer. They're all ladies size small and very, very thin yarn. I'm thinking maybe I'll start taking one of these apart. I'm thinking I'm not going to enjoy this. I'm thinking I'm not going to get a whole lot of yarn I'll want to knit with from this endeavor. I'm thinking I need to go shopping with that recycled yarn eBayer.
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I've always wanted to do that...let us know how it works out for you with those sweaters. and what are you doing with those fishies? I tried to look in your archives but I couldn't figure it out.
I still haven't gotten that pattern to you? Sheesh! I'm really out of that, aren't I? When and where can we meet up so I can get you a copy.
Oh, and trust me, you would not bother me. I've had worse--much worse--and I doubt you'd call me at six-thirty in the morning just to yell at me. ;-) The class will be six weeks long, though, since it's a whole lot of knitting and having a teacher there to help every week helps most students out. You would most likely just enjoy making it on your own.
Cafe Latte sometime this weekend or coming week? I need a smoothie in this heat.
For more recycled yarn, see http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZcraftqn6 and http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZbabygumdrops
I went through a phase where I was buying way too much of this stuff! I especially love the recycled sari silk and the story behind it. You can just search for recycled yarn and get lots of hits on eBay.
I tried taking a sweater apart myself and HATED it. :-( I think it's a great idea, though.
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