To Janet

Who said in the comments:

"I KNEW that ultramerino was what you were wanting for Fawkes!"

I say:

Yes but did you also know that I would get it home and then decide that it wasn't really quite the right color and have to re-dye it?

I wrapped it around some canisters carefully to match the colors up again.



Both skeins re-skeined with the colors matching. See it's too *pink*
There it is after dipping half of it into some red. I *love* it now...

Conversation in our house the other day

The first full day of school for my older kids, I want to take my 4 year old out for the day.

Me: First we're going to the yarn store and then we're going to go to the play ground.

DS: But why are we going to the yarn store?

Me: To get yarn. (Duh ,right?)

DS: (Gesturing wildly) But we already have ALL these yarns around here!?

He spent the whole car trip there telling me about how we already have Yarns, we don't want any new Yarns, there's no place to put any more Yarns, we can't possibly need more Yarns.

And to those of you thinking he just wanted to go to the playground, he didn't. He didn't even want to go to the playground after we left the yarn store (he did enjoy it once we got there though!). No, he just couldn't wrap his brain around the idea of more yarn.

My son doesn't get me....

Finish and Start

The OVERWHELMING response to the Noro longies was keep going with the stripes, so I did. I'll post them Sunday hopefully. They're looking pretty cool, thanks for the advice!

So I'm on this big push to reduce the number of WIPs in my Ravelry page.

These are Caitie's tube socks. They're more like slipper socks. I started them early last spring. A lot of my hibernating projects are cool weather projects and it got too hot for me to want to finish them.
Made out of cheap acrylic yarn that she liked. No idea where I got it.

She loves them, and has slept in them twice since I finished them.
There was a little drama in the finishing. I went out with a friend for coffee last Sunday and decided to take them with me to finish.
The needles weren't in them but I was pretty sure I was working them on 3's, so I took them with me and worked on them for a while.
4 inches later I discovered something critical. Just because you use your needles so much that the writing rubs off doesn't mean the mm on there that you can't see anymore doesn't matter.
Size 3 needles and 3 mm needles are not the same thing.
But, they're finished now. And I had coffee with a dear friend, and I was knitting. so it wasn't like it was time wasted.

These washcloths are lovely and addictive until you've made 5. I'm pretty sure they wear off after 5. I had to force myself to finish the second one of these.
I'm just not as charmed by the simple and lovely pattern now. I still really like them, but, well I've made 5. And actually I really want a black one. I think what's fun about them is seeing what the color combinations will come out like, but then once you do 4 inches you know what they look like....
Last weekend I went to the Knit Stop because they were having a sale.
Ended up without any sale yarn (1/2 price). I kept picking it up and putting it back. I do not need more yarn that doesn't go with projects I already have in mind. And I have 148 projects in mind. (How shocking is THAT to know?!) SO I'm sticking with those. 150, yep, that's my limit. Err, maybe 160. But that's all.
So I got this Baby Alpaca for Branching Out, which I'm making for my mom's birthday, in November.
And some Cascade 220, boring, but I needed it for something. This is the insanely too tight ball that they wound for me. I've already re-wound it, I couldn't stand it. Be nice to the wool!
Today I met my long lost friend Julie who moved to Texas at Mass ave and got this.
The green Flake Cotton was recommended by Susan as a substitute for Euroflax in the Dragon Skin wand holder from Charmed Knits. I'm just not going to knit a wand holder with Euroflax. I like the skin on my hands where it is.
The other is Artyarns Ultramerino for the Fawkes socks.
It is taking ever ounce of will power in me not to completely drop my other projects and start those Right. Now.
And can I just say how very much more I like Mass Ave than Knit Stop. Seriously. Worth the drive in the wrong direction from everything else.

Opinions?

What do you think of these pants?

I really love the top part. I had thought I would make the majority of the rest of them with the noro (stripy) yarn and put another pattern on the bottom 3-4 inches and black cuffs. But now I'm worried they're going to be TOO stripey for pants and look silly.

These are size Large, so... like 12-18 months-ish. I've joined for the legs and done about an inch on the right leg (left on the picture). Should I keep going? Or I could back up to the pick and black stripe and make it them black. I'm worried about having enough yarn though.

Would you buy them?

Edited to add: I did pull off the and match yarn into 2 balls so that I can make the stripes on the legs match if I continue them the way they are.

Oh yeah, the other thing...

I remembered what it was I forgot to blog about. But, it really needed it's own post anyway.

So, I took my 9 year old to knit night this week, she worked on a little crochet, and brought some stuff to read. We're all sitting around knitting and she says "Oh Woah! This is a giant knitted bunny!"

So I'm thinking... ok... it's going to be a big stuffed rabbit.

She hands me her National Geographic Kids that has this picture in it. It takes a minute to get a sense scale. Go ahead and look. Look at the house. Look at the person on the belly. It's freakin huge.


You'll probably think, like I did, that it's probably not knitted.






But you would be wrong.

We of course had to google it when we got home. It's an "art" project by a group called Gelitin. (Be warned there are some *very* weird and not very child appropriate things on that site, though, if you decide to go poking around)

Not only is it knitted, but it appears to be all *ribbing*. Think about THAT the next time you complain about all the miles of ribbing you have to do on your project.
How would you like to be the one who had to graft all those seams?

This thing is over 150 feet long and 20 feet high. Made of an unknown amount of pink wool and stuffed with straw.

It is so big that it can be seen from space. Seriously, that's not drawn on there, that's from Google Maps.



And yet look at the gauge. It's not THAT big.

Can you imagine?





Wait, it gets weirder...

If you look really close you can see that the rabbit is actually dead. There is a huge wound on his left side and guts area spilling out on the ground. (They're knitted, too, by the way.)

As someone from from knit night wondered, I'd like to know where they got that much pink wool in the same dye lot.