Swatching that pink yarn

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Thanks to suggestions from 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...

Comments

Re: Want more yarn?

[grettaelizabeth.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty busy this week with Thanksgiving stuff, but if you're serious about picking through the yarn, I could bundle it all into my car and come by your place for you to see sometime in a week or two. The only condition is that you have to take some baby gates and a large stuffed purple octopus off my hands too. :)

I'm really trying to reduce the size of my stash by quite a bit -- we're trying to turn my craft room into a guest room.

When are you due? Pretty soon, right? Are we working on deadline here?