Swatching that pink yarn
Nov. 9th, 2006 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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kightp and snippy I've got at least a somewhat better idea of what I might do with that pink-and-black slubby yarn I was puzzling over last week.
First, there was the simple dropstitch pattern on size 2's:
which showed some promise.
But then, when I was shopping downtown withaynjel and there was pink-and-orange novelty ribbon-ladder yarn on 50% clearance:
So I bought four balls of that.
That made for some very, very pretty dropstitch...
though knitting it on the bias was a dumb move on my part:
And then it occurred to me, I've got six hundred and something yards of this ribbon, and while I could just make a really *big* scarf, I could also use those yarns to unify a bunch of odds and ends -- the orange furry yarn, obtained on 30% clearance, the 65-or-so yards of hot pink lamb's pride leftover from the bag, an unknown quantity of black dk whenever I get those socks done (if I ever get those socks done...), and so on. At the very least, it wants to be mixed with the furry orange stuff. Or saved for a project where I *need* six hundred yards of novelty-something.
Maybe like I'm doing with that "ruana" from the yarn-stash workbook. (Dangerous book. Nice to be able to use random bits of yarn I end up collecting, but it kind of encourages me to collect random bits of yarn.) Maybe some svelte little sleeveless shell with furry trim...
kightp and snippy I've got at least a somewhat better idea of what I might do with that pink-and-black slubby yarn I was puzzling over last week. First, there was the simple dropstitch pattern on size 2's:
which showed some promise.
But then, when I was shopping downtown with
aynjel and there was pink-and-orange novelty ribbon-ladder yarn on 50% clearance:So I bought four balls of that.
That made for some very, very pretty dropstitch...
though knitting it on the bias was a dumb move on my part:
And then it occurred to me, I've got six hundred and something yards of this ribbon, and while I could just make a really *big* scarf, I could also use those yarns to unify a bunch of odds and ends -- the orange furry yarn, obtained on 30% clearance, the 65-or-so yards of hot pink lamb's pride leftover from the bag, an unknown quantity of black dk whenever I get those socks done (if I ever get those socks done...), and so on. At the very least, it wants to be mixed with the furry orange stuff. Or saved for a project where I *need* six hundred yards of novelty-something.
Maybe like I'm doing with that "ruana" from the yarn-stash workbook. (Dangerous book. Nice to be able to use random bits of yarn I end up collecting, but it kind of encourages me to collect random bits of yarn.) Maybe some svelte little sleeveless shell with furry trim...
