April 18, 2007

Yarn Porn....

The donation of acrylic yarn for the hats arrived. And it is two skeins of LB Microspun. There's been quite a big of discussion on one of the knitting boards about using it to make socks. Several people did and loved the socks. It is soft. So....I may try it out. I'm still apprehensive about acrylic socks, but worse case scenario they'll just be house socks.

I got some work done on the sock. But I did more frogging that work. I tried to work on it when there were distractions around. It's hard to believe that at 54 I still can't count to four....

However, progress was made on the -->click Asherton Hat. I decided to just completely change colors after I ran out of the orange. So now it has an orange bottom half and a snow white top half! I have about four rows until I start the decreases, so it'll be finished tonight. It sure is a tall hat!

Peek-a-Boo!

My kids' paternal grandfather's birthday is next week and the family is doing a card and picture shower for him. Here is the obligatory photo of my youngest daughter and her two daughters.

March 7, 2007

Yarn-cycling

I didn't get a whole lot of knitting done yesterday as housecleaning rudely interrupted my life. We cleaned out the linen closet yesterday and got rid of a bunch of half sets of sheets, extra pillow cases, etc.

My son and I took them too the local resale shop and of course had to brouse around. Saw the sweaters and thought, "Hmmmm, wonder if there is anything there I could recycle for the yarn?" Well, I found a nice lavendar sweater made from Shetland wool. It was kinda scratchy, but I thought a good wash with some hair conditioner in the final rinse would get rid of the scratchies from all the dry cleaning.

I spent all afternoon, picking out seams, trying not to clip the the yarns. I succeed relatively well. To my great dismay, though, the front of the sweater, a cardigan, had not been knit to size. It was cut and a ribbon sewn in as a facing. However, the sleeves and back were knit as one piece. I got the ribbed collar off and started unravelling. I put it right on the swift.

I got 163 gm/5.75 oz of fingering weight lavendar Shetland yarn for $4.99 and some of my time. Was it a good investment? Probably for the amount of money I spent and my time is my own investment. Would I do it again? Possibly if I found a really pretty color, or very nice yarn. Should you do it? Most definately if only for the experience of knowing how to do it. OH, and the wash and hair conditioner did make it nice and soft!

I did get far enough on my sock to start the cuff, so I have about two rows of cuff done now. Maybe I can work on it in bits and pieces today. We're going to see Ghost Rider today. I like Nick Cage and am not adverse to comic book hero movies.