I've been wanting to make a vest, and this one, a free pattern from Lion Brand, looks like it might be fun.
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Tuesday, June 04, 2002:
Tish sent me this ChicKnits : BLOG : Bonne Marie Burns Rambles On... for the shrine (down toward the bottom of the page). She says that in the book "Knitting Goddess" there was mention of a knitting shrine, and that "you are a more powerful knitter when it is in site of your work."
I read "Knitting Goddess," but I don't remember that part--I'll have to read it again. But it just struck me as a nice synchronicity because yesterday I took pictures of the grotto in the brick wall in my office and was going to write about it in the journal tonight.
It's not really a shrine, and it doesn't have anything to do with knitting, but . . .
[ Posted by Willa at 1:11 PM ]
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Wow! I went out to get the newspaper this morning and found an Amazon.com box on my porch. I knew I hadn't ordered anything, and hoped it wasn't a mistake, but when I carried it in and opened it, I found it contained a copy of Knitter's Stash and a copy of Knitting on the Road--gifts from a knitting reader. Barb, I don't have your email address with me, but thank you, thank you, thank you!!
I now plan to actually make something for myself--maybe the navy blue cardigan . . .
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Monday, June 03, 2002:
The Chinchilla scarf was making me unhappy--I don't know what possessed me to decide to make it striped, and to use the green yarn. I like the two colors together, but I didn't like how the change was apparent--wrong side, of course, but in a scarf there can really be no wrong side.
I hated the thought of ripping it out, since the Chinchilla is such a pain in that regard, but this morning I did it. I ripped it down to the last green row, then painstakingly ripped it back, stitch by painful stitch, putting each stitch on the needle before I ripped out the next one. I dropped a few, but managed to retrieve them, and now I'm much happier.
Pictures when it's finished.
[ Posted by Willa at 10:44 AM ]
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I went to the yarn store over the weekend, and had to stop myself from buying this Colinette kit. I've been wanting to do some kind of textile wall hanging for my office at work, but don't know what I want. I just have this image in my mind of lots of different kinds of yarn in various colors . . . So I don't know that I would follow the pattern they've given, but it seems like a good deal on the yarn.
It was on sale, but $150.00 is a lot to spend on yarn at one time, although it is wonderful yarn . . .
[ Posted by Willa at 10:39 AM ]
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Sunday, June 02, 2002:
And a short vest, to boot, because knitting with this yarn was driving me crazy. It was like knitting with cobwebs. I used size 7 needles, and like knitting with Chinchilla, heaven help you if you drop a stitch. The yarn itself is very fine, with long "eyelash" fibers. I knitted with a crochet hook in my mouth to catch any dropped stitches before they got too far.
My mom called last night and asked what I was doing, and I said I was knitting a Barbie coat. She asked, "Why?" I said, "For fun." Knitting for fun it kind of hard to explain to someone who doesn't do it. Knitting sounds like work, not like fun. More on that later.
Right now, the Barbie coat, which turned out to be a Barbie vest once I thought about trying to shove her little sharp plastic hands through sleeves made out of this yarn (Skacel "Gatto").
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