Wednesday, October 18, 2006

A surprise and another scarf!

Isn’t it lovely when you get surprises in the mail?  This came yesterday…

...accompanied by this!





These lovely things are from dear Bron who just thought I might like them!  Guess what - she was right!  The wool is Curious Yarns’ Portland (what they call their chunky weight yarn) hand-dyed in their Nectarine colorway.  Isn’t it awesome?  A marriage of opposite colors that somehow manages to work harmoniously.  There are three huge hanks of this and I will enjoy working with every inch of it!

The candle was made by Bron herself and is therefore doubly special, not to mention beautiful.  And the blue moon theme?  Perfection!  Thank you Bron for your thoughtfulness - your package really made my day!

In Monday’s post, I talked about a scarf possibility that I couldn’t resist casting on for :)

It’s going to be about 65” long, near as I can tell now.  The yarns are just about everything under the sun.  Well, they’re all wool or wool blends, but they’re fingering, DK, worsted and bulky weight as well as coming from Classic Elite, Knitpicks, Lionbrand and just about everywhere else :) I cast 201 stitches onto my 60”, size 9 US (5.5mm) Addis (a very convenient tool to have when knitting a lengthwise scarf!) and proceeded to work in seed stitch, swapping colors when the notion took me.  It’s one of my knitting eccentricities that when I’m working in seed stitch ("moss stitch” across the pond, I think?) I always cast on an odd number of stitches so that every row is worked the same.  If I’m using a pattern that calls for an even number of stitches, I’ll either drop one or add one so that the number is odd.

If you’d told me that I would enjoy working a 60 + inch scarf in seed stitch, I’d have said you were crazy - but you know?  The stitch pattern muddles any sharp lines between color changes as well as adding wonderful texture to the scarf itself.  This is a very interesting way of utilizing small bits of nice stuff and I’m having a blast seeing where it will go!

Notes

There’s a little more than a week left for the Dulaan 2007 Kick-off Contest (see the side-bar button).  Okay, so it’s a quiet contest - LOL!  Send pictures of your entry by noon 10/27/06 :)

Chatters is on for tomorrow evening - hope to see you there!

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