Too much fun!
Yesterday I had a lot of fun at my friend Libby's house, destashing her stash and assigning patterns to a lot of the oddballs lying around. It kind of turned into Clean Sweep, though instead of keep, toss & sell, it was keep, knitswap or use to make charity items.In the assignment of patterns, I brought every pattern book I ever owned. I found a nice vintage pattern that I forgot I had to turn icylove into this:
It's from Spinnovations #12, copyright 1997. I want to make the aran hoodie. I may or may not have enough yarn to make the thing, so I might have to lose the hood, but I still think it's adorable. Of course, the drawstring is completely out of the question. The largest size is for 40.5", so I'll just pull in an inch or two for the moss stitch border.
I also got 4 full skeins and two partial skeins of this:
This is probably 1000 yards of fingering weight white wool total. I'm going to dye a nice rose pink and make into a lace shawl. I can't decide if I should RIT dye it or Koolaid dye it. I want a slight mottled effect, but nothing too obvious.
As for the keep, swap or charity destash, we're going to do this to my stash at some point. I am greatly looking forward to it.
Yesterday was actually kind of ridiculously crazy and expensive. Both at the same time. Helped a friend move and got rewarded with pizza. Then I bought this dress that I've been coveting for a month at Hot Topic. Then we went to AC Moore where I picked up this:
Which will make a not ugly Sitcom Chic. Luckily, I had $12 of credit from returning a whole bunch of Woolease I bought in a moment of idiocy, so that only cost me $8.
I just love that today I have two more projects than I did at the beginning of yesterday, including some dyeing, and a new take on an old recycling project.
While we were looking through all of our pattern books, trying to decide what we should make out of some of Libby's wool, I found instructions from an old hat swap I participated in about two years ago through a knitting community. You sent in five oddballs of wool, they sent you back five different oddballs and you made a hat for someone else and sent it to them. That's how I came up with the rainbow stash hat. Who was the hatswap run by? k8. Who knit my hat? Her friend Paula at woolarina. ::dies and is ded from the coincidence::
I'm sorry I haven't been updating a lot lately. The problem is that I've been working on two specific projects at the same time, so it's kind of boring. Here's the sleeve so far. Three days later, it's three inches longer! But still a stockinette sleeve! FASCINATING.
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