More Yarn Shopping

by Melissa // August 18, 2007 // 5 Comments

I’ve been so busy this week that I haven’t been able to get much crafting done. What’s the best solution for that? More supplies! I went over to Yarnivore today to spend some money (woo!) and pick up some yarn. Melanie was helpful as ever, and perfectly willing to help me decide how to spend my recreational yarn budget. After some browsing, and some wandering, and my first experience sniffing yarn (look, I’ve heard that people do that, and Melanie encouraged me…) I picked out some beautiful yarn.

Plymouth Baby Alpaca Brush. They had an entire skein knitted up and dangling from the display; it was incredibly persuasive. Melanie and I tried to figure out how many skeins I would need to make a sweater (so as to entirely swathe myself in it) and arrived at an estimate of 10. That felt too expensive to me, so I bought 5. Surely, I thought, I can make half a sweater’s worth of something fantastic? I also bought four balls of wool:

I have a great idea for a crocheted child’s/man’s sweater, and I thought I’d try it out in Charlie or Max’s size – to see if Greg would wear one – before I made one for him. Not that he’s picky, or anything. (*cough* NOT! *cough*) I love him anyway. And I think he’ll like it. I also picked up a copy of the Crocheter’s Handy Guide to Yarn Requirement, which I have been eying online for quite some time. It seems like it would be useful. I have plans to visit Yarnivore off and on of the the few months we’re going to be here, still. I need to stock up, you know!

Now I’m off to watch Scrubs with Greg and see if I can finish weaving in the ends on that Sheepghan! If I can finish it tonight I can give it to someone at church tomorrow (for those of you who don’t remember from my post on my old blog, I’m making these afghans for babies born at church) and have its dark presence out of my house. Haha.

Talking about the weather

by Melissa // August 17, 2007 // 4 Comments

So, it rained here yesterday. It rained a lot. We got hit by a ‘tropical depression,’ and apparently there’s a hurricane headed our way. We’re fine, by the way (mom…) but there was some absolute insanity yesterday at Greg’s work. If you’d like to see…click on the picture. (I’ve been really busy, I set up the page for him last night 😛 )

Drudgery

by Melissa // August 13, 2007 // 4 Comments

As that hot mess, the Infernal Sheepghan, lumbers off the hook to its messy and unsatisfactory end, I am reminded of a few things. Like, say, a mangy border collie. Or a balding shag rug. Gollum’s hairdo? The point I am trying to make is this: heaven help me, there are a lot of ends. I couldn’t quite capture the full horror of them with my camera:

In fact, I was unable to get a photo without a baby in it. Quit smiling, Charlie, Mommy’s trying to be grumpy. Just to see if I was being unreasonable, I counted: there are almost 40 ends on one side, and there appears to be a similar amount on the other side as well. Erk.

Charlie tried it out, and it passed the peek-a-boo test. I suppose it will do. I just want to say again, for the record, that I am never, ever, doing one of these again. Never.

While I was getting ready to tear my hair out over the slow and torturous progress I was making on the Sheepghan, I started a new project that gave relief through its simplicity: Greg’s scarf.

For those of you that don’t recall, I’m using Plymouth Indiecita’s Alpaca Boucle that I bought at Yarnivore – Greg picked it out himself. I checked out the yarn on Ravelry, and one of the few people that had used it for a project had made a garter stitch scarf out of it. While the boucle obscures a great deal of the stitch definition, you can still see a bit – like drawing lines in dry sand. Garter stitch, therefore, made fuzzy ridges. I really didn’t like the look of it, so I decided to use stockinette. In an attempt to keep it from rolling up I’ve edged it in garter stitch, but for the most part it is plain, simple, stockinette. Greg loves it.

Men.

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