First up is this scarf that I'm knitting for my friend for her birthday. I knew I wanted to knit her a cabled red scarf and found this amazing Elsebeth Lavold Angora at the LYS. It's unbelievably soft and the red is a gorgeous vibrant shade. I'm using the Warm Fuzzies scarf pattern from SnB Nation - it's a mock-cable rib that I love because the wrong side is ribbed so it looks good either way. My friend's birthday is in early March but I'm making good progress. The cable part is very simple, just two stitches.
Next up is a sock yarn - Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in Green Mountain Madness. The color is unbelievable - my photo below just doesn't do justice to the amazing shades of green and blue. It feels so soft too.
Since taking this photo I've moved all the stitches onto a circ because I'm giving Magic Loop a shot. After needles falling out TWICE and several "dig through the couch cushions/knitting bag/purse for the missing DPN" I decided to pick up the ML booklet and the new circ.
So far I really like ML - adjusting stitches and needles only twice in a round is definitely making the work go faster. I also like the fact that I can pull the needles through so that all the stitches are on the cable, less chance of dropping any.
So DH and I recently purchased a set of bedroom furniture. It's beautiful and I love that we no longer are cramming clothes into too-small drawers. But one of the big benefits is that one of the old dressers was moved to the guest bedroom - and it was completely empty...until now!!
Yup, that's it, my rather meager yarn stash! I'm not sure that even qualifies under the definition of 'stash'!
3 comments:
I love the green mountain madness!! Thanks for the comment on my antifreeze on the knitters review. If you want to see another yarn that looks a whole lot like the mountain madness, at least as it appears on your pictures, see my colinette scarf. http://paulared.smugmug.com/
The scarf is beautiful, Paula! I did see Jitterbug at my LYS yesterday and actually I've been thinking lately of what ELSE to do with beautiful sock yarns. I love the scarf :)
I did this with an empty chest of drawers too! Did you line yours with ceadar closet lining? I can't tell from the photos. I found a box of the cedar paneling at Home Depot and cut the pieces to fit the bottom of my drawers. It makes the yarn smell so nice - and so far has kept the moths away...knock on (cedar) wood :)
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