My Summer Tweed is here. I’m almost ready to begin Chamomile. I recently reconnected with an old online friend and she may be knitting with me on this project. I’m working out the details with her and she still has to get yarn. Now that I have my yarn, I’m ready to begin. But I’m going to be good and finish my other projects.
My yarn has arrived! This is color #55. Maybe I’ll begin working on my Booga Bag next week. I’m excited about this project. It seems so simple yet it will be my first foray into felting. I told you I’d have pictures soon. :)
I’m so ashamed about my last post. I think my brain was out to lunch when I posted, because not 5 minutes after I hit save, I figured it out. I guess since this is my first big project, I was making it more complicated than it really was. So please disregard my idiocy. I’m so nervous about getting the shaping right, since it will be my first attempt that I’m expecting it to be more difficult. But after reading through the pattern again, (after lunch) my brain started working and I figured it all out. Yeah, you all are probably laughing at me, thinking, “God, she’s such an idiot!” But hey, we all have our moments of brain freeze and I guess mine was yesterday.
In other news, I just couldn’t resist tempation any longer. I ordered my Summer Tweed for Chamomile. I will hold off working on it as long as possible. I’d like to get my Booga Bag done first so I can use it for my other small projects. I’m also thinking about possibly doing Tasha. Depends on how it goes with my booga bag.
My afghan is going well. I went out last night and got a bigger hook. I had to get L since I was already using K. It works well, my gauge it right again. I just ran up to Hobby Lobby and the only ones they had in that size were Crystalite. I wasn’t sure how I’d like it, but amazingly I haven’t had many snags on the Homespun with the new hook. Not sure if it’s the hook, or if it’s just me getting even more familiar with the yarn, but I worked one square up last night with it and it was great. I think I caught fibers <10 times compared to like 30+ with the aluminum hook. So I’m happy now.
Sigma is going well. The afghan is almost 50% complete. Plus, I’ve got yarn on the way for 2 more projects.
I’ve ordered the yarn for my Booga Bag. Yahoo! This is my first order from ThreadBear and I must say…it was so easy and Rob was so nice. I will definitely be doing business with him again. I can’t wait to get my Kureyon and start working on my bag.
See what has happened to my yarn? Can you see the stripes? That is the same dye lot (not the cream part). Maybe I got the skeins that were dyed last in that lot. And the brown color was running out so it became a pinkish color. Even within one skein, it is mostly green, somewhere in the middle for a few yards it goes back to how it should be (an even blend of greens and browns) then goes back to mostly green with a pinkish tone. It’s very weird. Maybe that’s what I get for buying a slighty inferior yarn? It’s Lion Brand Homespun. All my skeins are the same dye-lot and the big color difference is also within the same strand of yarn! So even though I made sure I got the same dye lot, it didn’t make any difference in this project. I guess it really wants to be multi-colored.
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