Project First
Went to the DFW Fiber Fest this weekend. Lots and lots of eye candy there. Bought myself some purty new stitch markers and a new pattern that will most likely end up as my sister’s Christmas present. I didn’t buy any new yarn though. Hardcore stashers are now clutching their chests and reeling, I know, but I’ve got several project in the queue, and if I get too many I start feeling a little outnumbered. Sure, there was tons of yarn that I coveted; however, I’m more of a pattern/project first type of gal. In the past when I’ve bought yarn of a whim with no goal in mind…well, let’s just say it’s all still sitting in my stash cabinet, hoping (in vain) one day to become a fully formed, knitted item.
Books on impulse are a completely different matter.
It’s Montse Stanley’s Knitter’s Handbook and it’s fabulous. Praises to Half-Price Books. The amount cast-ons and bind-offs are worth the price of admission alone. This book isn’t for the weak-hearted, so the aforementioned stashers shouldn’t buy it until shock of my non-yarn wears off.
In the spirit of the fiber festival, I cast on a new project.
The yarn is Lorna’s Laces’ Bullfrogs and Butterflies and the pattern is The Simon Tam. I altered the pattern a little (of course I did). Instead of the tubular cast-on I used the lace cast-on, and the ribbing is k2p2 because my k1p1 ribbing looks like crap.
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Ohhhh. Is that the brown you were telling me about? Very pretty!
*goes in search of the next project*
Oh, and just to let you know, my web url changed. I moved to wordpress. 🙂
Duly noted and changed on the roll.