My first project just for me…

A few days ago, I wondered what the hell I was going to do with some yarn I purchased, well I found it, but not without a little pattern switching and frogging. I first thought of water when I saw this, I also thought of peacoks, but I found a nice wave pattern and I started it, a few hours in the waves were not showing like I hopped so I frogged the whole things and found this scarf pattern using the broomstick stitch. It’s perfect because it looks like a peacock to me so off I went with it. There was only one problem, the pattern called for a size 35 needle. O.o What?

Well I don’t have any ridiculously massive needles so I used a set of size 8 DPN’s wrapped with a coil to hold them together and, I must say, it works perfectly! The whole of the project is more crochet than knitting but the effect it splendid. I made it thin so I can wear this as an accessory scarf year round, can’t wait to be done with it! Oh and this one is for me, i’ve been doing this for almost two years now and I’ve yet to make MYSELF something, isn’t that insane? So here it is, my first project for ME.

Scarf Pattern (I reduced from 5 holes to 3): Broomstick Stitch Lace Scarf

What do I do with this yarn?

There are two small local yarn shops within 30 minutes of me. I don’t visit very often because 1) when I go there is always a gaggle of loyal shoppers sitting in a knitting circle giggling and I feel like the odd man out so I need to rush and get the hell out of there, and 2) the yarn is all friggin’ expensive. Still, sometimes I go. It’s a pull, like my calling to visit a candy store that makes handmade walnut fudge, expensive therefore it’s only a treat once in a while.

Well this is what I picked up this time, I’ve never had yarn like this, it’s gorgeous, but like a lot of my impulse purchases concerning yarn, I think, what do I do with it? I feel like this yarn lends itself to a water inspired something, maybe a wavy accessory scarf? It also reminds me of peacocks. I’m not sure yet so off pattern searching I’ll go, one thing is for sure, this is my next project.I’ll not be doing anything else until the two hanks I bought of this are gone.

Tell me you like my hat…

Well, I know my friends birthday has come and gone, but I had some left over yarn from his birthday scarf project so I made a matching hat! This is the third hat I’ve made, the second one I have knitted and probably the one I enjoyed most. It took much longer than the ones I’ve done before, which always leads to a bigger feeling of accomplishment for me. Used the Husband as a model again, he just loves when I do that. ;D

 

Hat Pattern: Men’s Cabled Hat Pattern