A little eye candy, courtesy of Lis, the knit-along mom and Donna, the creator behind this little piece of eye candy.
For the record, I haven't started yet, not even a swatch. I still have to finish my current *active* project, the Debbie Bliss Frilled Sleeve cardigan from the Easy Knits book. The Debbie Bliss wool/cotton is a lovely yarn, but the knots are driving me berserk ... and because I have been undoing the knots and misplacing bits that I have unknotted, I think I'm going to run short of yarn (yipes!).
What choice did I have but to find some displacement activity? Like adding some pretty decorations to my blog.
I recently ran short of wool for the Gullwing sock that I'm doing the the Lang Jawoll. I was about 20 rows from getting to the end of the foot and realised that I had 4 inches of yarn left. Fortunately, May, rescued me. Can't understand why I'm just running short recently, if I didn't know better, I'm going to start thinking that there was some yarn millipede can back with me from Durban and its eating the yarn from the other end of the ball!
Durban? We're off there on Tuesday. Any decent yarn shops?
Thanks!
Posted by: Lorna at July 3, 2004 03:21 PMHi Thos, The gullwing pattern that I'm doing is lace and silly me thought that all those holes would mean less yarn. Off course, lang jawoll has less yarn per skein (only 45g per skein) and it's a cotton blend so needs to be done on 2 mm and to top it off, when I get stressed, the tension gets tighter, so a combination of several things really... (and don't forget the yarn eating millipedes) The socks aren't that big, only a Eur 41.
Posted by: Polly at October 19, 2003 03:00 PMGullwing cables, if that is the pattern, take up a lot of yarn. Or maybe it's the intended recipient's (DH?) large feet?
Hugs,
Thomas