First off, a picture of my husband and our "mountain lion", Syd:
Syd loves being up high and will perch in the strangest places (like the back of a moving computer chair). He is also especially attached to John.
I took another little trip out to Tangled Web in Oak Park after I discovered not only did I need yarn for the Fuzzy Feet, but I also needed needles because I didn't have the right sized circs or double points. Actual exchage before the trip:
Me: "Hmmm... looks like I need more knitting needles."
John: "How can you possibly need more knitting needles?" (He's seen my needle collection grow exponentially lately)
Me: "I don't haave the right size for a project. With knitting needles, size matters."
John: "Heh. That's pretty funny."
This trip to Tangled Web completed my first "Frequent Buyer Card" -- now I've got $20 off on my next visit (I think you have to spend $200 there to get your card completed... and Mom helped me last time she was here by buying some lovely Rowan Polar). They have so many wonderful yarns at Tangled Web it will be hard to decide what to use it on. Aside from the needles I picked up, here's the yarn I decided on for my Fuzzy Feet:
| Noro Kureyon Color #78 | |
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These are not normally colors I would go for (and the colors in the pictures are very true to the colors in the skein) but as I kept looking at them, they started to grow on me. I figured that I needed darker colors for something that I was going to wear around the house without shoes (and didn't want to have to wash every 15 minutes). Now I am excited about knitting them up. One thing I have learned the Hard Way from my current Noro sweater project is that you have to pay attention to the color of the skeins if you want the stripes to match a little bit (even if you do, I discovered that the color runs of the same color are not the same lengths from skein to skein, so it is kind of a losing battle to try to do this). So, two of the skeins have pretty much the same starting and ending colors (the one on it's side andthe one on the left in the right hand picture) and I will use those to start each of the "Feet". The other is in case I need more to finish either of the socks off since Kureyon only comes in 100 m skeins. I was tempted to find some matching eyelash... but decided that the stripes would probably be decoration enough for my first shot.
Last, but not least, I finished the front of my Silk Garden sweater:
I'm almost done with the sleeves (hopefully tonight). I decided that I would do both sleeves at the same time so that I could match the stripes and because I have such a hard time casting on the second sleeve after I am done with the first one on most sweater projects. (My poor "Gormley" is sitting in my basket just waiting for another sleeve...). I don't usually do it because I am totally cheap when it comes to using yarn (I don't like to leave long ends or have two half-used skeins). I discovered with the Silk Garden, however, that in order to make it come out looking nice I had to put my cheap attitudes aside. More on this later tonight, hopefully!
