Posted in Knitting Thoughts on Oct 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
After running out of black yarn on the Flames hat I sat down to order another skein of black Debbie Bliss Rialto. It went like this: Favorites-Yarn Market-Debbie Bliss-Rialto-Midnight. Of course I ordered Midnight. Wouldn’t you? Haven’t you heard the saying, “As black as midnight?” Later, around midnight, I woke from a sound sleep saying, [...]
Posted in Knitting Thoughts on Oct 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
I needed something to do while I waited for extra yarn to finish the Flames hat so I dreamed up Rainbows and Flowers on the fly. I will assemble the charts and write the directions in the near future if anyone is interested. I guess this validates that Fair Isle, even in a random pattern, can be [...]
Posted in Knitting Thoughts on Oct 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
If anything can happen it will! Forty plus years of knitting and I have rarely run out of yarn on a project. I am crazed about ordering/buying more yarn than I need and even though it creates boxes and bags of leftover tidbits and smidgens I would rather be safe than short or something like [...]
Posted in Knitting Thoughts on Oct 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
Behold the chart and yarn for the next hat. I found the flames hat among the Headhuggers patterns and wondered why I had never made one for firefighter son. I think he will be thrilled. He wore the silly Jayne hat and got rave reviews, so this one should get a standing ovation!
This will be [...]
Posted in Knitting Thoughts on Oct 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Oddly, no! I was working on a scarf yesterday that GD#2 requested and feeling a little strange doing straight knitting even with a little zigzag pattern. Fair Isle gets under your skin! It begins to feel natural—all that knitting with one or two different colored strands of yarn in each hand. It somehow becomes “normal” [...]
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