r maybe I smell, I don't know) so when Mandie asked me on Tuesday night to knit a shell for a group-effort turtle for Peg's birthday, I said YES! It didn't hit me until a few minutes later that my 2 messed up fingers and I had less than 48 hours to make it. Which is fine...if you plan on knitting a turtle shell for 2 days straight. But I'm glad to say that 30 minutes before my knit-night, I finished the shell. Janet made Sheldon the nekked turtle (turtle-butt!) and Francie made him a Colts shell. I went for the other end of things and made
a hot pink and glittery shell, because our dear Sheldon might be a Shelley. It's so hard to tell on turtles. I also made a card with a sheep on it and I even got all creative (I always feel inspired after watching Martha Stewart) and glued some roving onto the sheep drawing. I kinda liked how it turned out...I've also been a little crazy with the cast-ons since I've been home. I do this every time I come home from school, I get overwhelmed and excited by all the stash that's been chilling in my stash-room and I decide to play with it all. At the same time. I started with the acrylic. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've become a bit of a fiber-snob
over the past few years and the acrylic has been slowing collecting a layer of dust while I reach for wool and alpaca over plastic yarn that squeaks when you knit it *shudders*. But I grabbed it and went for it, and have made 2 baby blankets for Project Linus so far, and am getting close on another 2. Since I was feeling all morally warm and fuzzy after dropping the
first 2 off with Francie, I had to do another good deed and buy some green Purewool laceweight from "other Janet" who likes green nearly as much as I do. I tried to photograph it, it's just a really tricky color. It's a babypoop/acid green, but it's a good green (I know I didn't paint a good image for you) so we'll call it "Fern".
Since 4 Project Linus cast-ons weren't enough, I casted on 2 more cardigans, because I totally don't have enough projects goi
ng on right now. (In my defense I did finish a pair of hibernating socks last night, I just haven't grafted the toe together on the second one. Pics eventually) and now I've got 2 more cardi's going. One is a sport weight brown alpaca version of Mel Clark's Rowena Cardigan and the other is a top-down raglan that I'm improvising in Rowan Colourscape (I know. I'm a Rowan-ho.) I took pics of both, but I haven't made it 
far in either yet. I might just go all-out on the Rowan one since it's bulky, and will take all of a week to finish (I bet you anything I've just jinxed myself. Now I'll never finish it!)
But yeah...that's about it. Birthday turtles and OCO Cardigans. How's YOUR knitting going?
over the past few years and the acrylic has been slowing collecting a layer of dust while I reach for wool and alpaca over plastic yarn that squeaks when you knit it *shudders*. But I grabbed it and went for it, and have made 2 baby blankets for Project Linus so far, and am getting close on another 2. Since I was feeling all morally warm and fuzzy after dropping the
first 2 off with Francie, I had to do another good deed and buy some green Purewool laceweight from "other Janet" who likes green nearly as much as I do. I tried to photograph it, it's just a really tricky color. It's a babypoop/acid green, but it's a good green (I know I didn't paint a good image for you) so we'll call it "Fern".Since 4 Project Linus cast-ons weren't enough, I casted on 2 more cardigans, because I totally don't have enough projects goi
ng on right now. (In my defense I did finish a pair of hibernating socks last night, I just haven't grafted the toe together on the second one. Pics eventually) and now I've got 2 more cardi's going. One is a sport weight brown alpaca version of Mel Clark's Rowena Cardigan and the other is a top-down raglan that I'm improvising in Rowan Colourscape (I know. I'm a Rowan-ho.) I took pics of both, but I haven't made it 
far in either yet. I might just go all-out on the Rowan one since it's bulky, and will take all of a week to finish (I bet you anything I've just jinxed myself. Now I'll never finish it!)But yeah...that's about it. Birthday turtles and OCO Cardigans. How's YOUR knitting going?
1 comment:
mmm, pink,purple.I love your Rowan Colourscape!
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