First off, I went to columbus last weekend to visit Jessica! I had a great time and got to experience what its like during OSU-MI football weekend (nuts!!!) Now THAT is a football rivalry. (P.s. IU lost to Purdue, ugh... oh well... stupid IU football). But as I was getting ready to leave, Jessica gave me some fun yarn:
Pretty purple chenille and some fun little ribbony-yarn that I might carry along with a nice blue yarn or something. :-) Thanks so much to jessica!!!! I might use the chenille to make a scarf for my friend megan!
OK, next: making another simple scarf from Lion Brand Homespun for a lady at work... she saw the one I made a few weeks ago for a work auction, tried to bid on it but lost.... so I said, hey - I can just make you one anyway! It is already about halfway done, since I am knitting it sideways:
I hope she likes it. :-) OK moving on... still working on my ND baby hat for my cousin's kid... I did two yellow stripes. I think it looks pretty cute. I also got a good start yesterday on a "preemie" blanket. A woman at work asked several of us knitters if we would make small 12-14 inch blankets for preemies at some hospital... so I grabbed a cute stitch out of my Barbara Walker book, and here it is: (using leftover Caron "Simply Soft" from my cousin's baby blanket)
OK, so! Spent a lot of time with the folks for Thanksgiving yesterday (and it was delicious).. but we all talked about knitting... and my dad mentioned he had a knit tie he liked, but it was too short. It is made of silk, and is definitely machine-made, but he asked if I could possibly knit a tie. I was like, .... sure? Haha. So then he got really excited and starting sketching out all these cool tie ideas and talking about colors, etc... it was cute. So today, mom and I hit the yarn store (WOO) and got a ton of yarn!!!!! Here is what we found for the tie (also pictured is the silk knit tie that dad already owned):
It's some "Silky Wool"... 65% Wool 35% Silk. He liked the blue and the gold colors, and we're thinking a mostly blue tie with thin gold stripes. We will see how I do!!!! (but who knows when I will get that started...) Dad even was talking about me knitting many ties, and then selling them... heh... now that would be a nice side job! ;-) (Note: mom paid for this yarn, hooray!)
Then I had to buy yet ANOTHER skein of Cascade 220 for my Harry Potter scarf.... whew! That thing is eating this stuff up! This is skein #4 of the red. BUT: this will be the last one I have to buy. Hooray!
Last but certainly not least, my mom picked out some BEAUTIFUL Manos del Uruguay in a pretty deep crimson color for a scarf I am commisioned to make for her. She even paid for the yarn!!! I am so excited to knit with this... I just need a pretty pattern. She said she wanted a thin scarf, maybe some sort of slightly lacy pattern? I was thinking of just using large needles to give it a "lacy look". We will see what we can come up with...
So much yarn!!!!!!!!! So many projects!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE IT! :-D
Hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving! :) Hooray for leftovers!
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