Back from a cross-country plane trip… the ONE good thing about being hurled through the air in a metal tube after waiting in line to be searched is getting some time to knit. Thank goodness for all the little old ladies who demanded we get to keep our needles, at least. (They are so much safer than shampoo and toothpaste.)
Anyway… I finished Project #1:
I’d been itching for a reason to try out one of those multi-fiber yarn-esque skeins forever. I bought one while my mom was in town, and she whipped up an easy pattern for me to make a shawl/wrap/scarf with it. Basically, I started in the middle of the triangle at the top, and added 4 YOs (at the ends and two in the middle) every other row. Super easy, though I did track how many stitches I needed to get to the middle of each row. I only had to stop and recount during a row a few dozen times. I blame dehydration.
Anyway, it was fun to knit, and I got quite a few positive comments while I was working on it (including from one of the flight attendants!). Working with this yarn felt a bit like a sampler pack – I got to try knitting all kinds of weird things and see what I liked enough to do a big project with. The overall wrap is not really “wrap” sized, but it makes a great scraf-wrap hybrid. If I did it again, I would use two skeins instead.
This yarn had a lot going on – here are the highlights:
Super fuzzy dark green: Like mohair but less fun. Much less fun.
Ladder yarn: Let us never speak of ladder yarn. It is designed by sadists.
Thick’n’thin yarn: I was prepared to grit my teeth and bear through this part, but I actually quite liked both the yarn and the effect, so I’ll have to try this again.
Ribbon: Weird, but easy, though there was a thin sample that was super slippery and somewhat tricky to get the tension right with.
On to finishing the next project!
I made another batch of beer bread today, using a leftover bottle of Sam Adams Double Bock. It was basically undrinkable, but it makes for tasty bread.
