Yarning along with Ginny while also Keeping Calm and Crafting On with Nicole:
My current project is Oriental Lily in wonderful, wonderful Noro Silk Garden:
Oriental Lily and The Week
As for reading, all attempts to pick up a book and get serious about reading it have resulted in heavy eyelids — even at 11 in the morning! So I’m sticking with nice, easy, modular reading in The Week. I’ve said it before in an earlier Yarn Along, but here’s how I feel about this magazine: luff, loaf, lurv it!
I actually have some finished objects to show you — how’s that for excitement? To quote an episode of I Love Lucy, one is swell, and the other is lousy. The swell one:
Happy scarf times
I’m very pleased with this scarf — I wanted something like a keffiyeh (but please don’t consider that a political statement–I just like scarves with fringe or tassels and I’m much too shallow to worry about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, although I do care about it when I’m not thinking about my clothes), I wanted it to be a long, narrow triangle with ties long enough for 2 wraps around the neck and definitely tassels. The shape turned out rather strange
scarf, unfurled
I think it looks a bit like a Dr. Seuss illustration on its own, but I do like it a lot when it’s all wrapped and fixed up around my neck. And it is a great warmer. The yarn is a mill end cotton that I picked up at Earth Guild in Asheville 4 years ago. (Love you, Earth Guild!) I bought 2 massive cones for a total of $16, and I’ve knitted 3 objects from it, with most of one cone still left. A slouchy hat to wear with the scarf will probably be next.
Here’s the lousy one:
[Note: There is no picture of the poncho yet, because the battery on my camera went dead as I was trying to snap it. See? That poncho is cursed.]
Yuckity, yuck, yuck, yuck! This is the Sheer Poncho, blogged about here. It is so tight, especially the bind off, even though I did the most elastic bind off I know. It feels like a straight jacket. It will soon be frogged, because I cannot stand to let that gorgeous Malabrigo yarn go unworn. That’ll teach me to knit projects that are created and modeled by tiny 20 year olds.
Good thing the tasseled scarf turned out so well—it helped ease the “I spent 3 months knitting this piece of *#@*” depression. Hopefully L’Oiseau’s Oriental Lily will continue my positive streak.
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