Hey, would you look at that – knitting. A completed project, fresh off the needles. Good stuff.
With all the craziness that has taken over my formerly uneventful life in the last couple pf weeks, I really needed something simple, relatively mindless, but still fun to knit. Enter the Charade socks. I’ve knit these before and enjoyed the easy to remember stitch pattern and was really happy with the results, so I thought I’d revisit them. I don’t often revisit patterns – once is usually enough for me, but this was comfort knitting. Besides,who doesn’t need more socks?
I knit these up out of some Arequipa I had in the stash. This yarn is great. Affordable with great yardage, it feels lovely and comes in really nice colours. The photos don’t really capture the true colour of the stuff – in real life, the colours are various shades of lavender and grey. Very me. These come about halfway up my shin and I still had a good-sized amount of yarn left over. I suppose I could weigh it to find out how much exactly, but really, who knows where the scale might be at this point. Besides, it’s a Weight Watchers kitchen scale of questionable accuracy that I found secondhand. I’ll stick to “good-sized.”
And as promised, here are a few pics of the finished lace scarf that I had been working on.
Euroflax lace weight in French Blue was the yarn of choice for this project – again, a yarn that had been hanging out in the stash for a while. This was only my second project with a linen yarn and while I really like the colour and the way is blocks out (so crisp!), I wasn’t thrilled with the knots. There were 6. Now, this doesn’t seem like a lot until you consider that there are only 570 yards per cone. And that all of the knot were in the first 250 yards or so. Not impressed. I prefer to think that I must have gotten a wonky cone, so if anyone out there has knit with this yarn, let me know about the knot situation.
The vine lace pattern was again pretty easy to follow (that’s the theme of my knitting right now: easy) and I enjoyed watching it grow.,but I was happy to finally come to the end of that naughty cone. I did briefly considered keeping the scarf, but decided instead that it will head overseas as part of the handmade chainmail project. Knitted goods are light and are easily (there’s that word again, easy!) packed into a padded mailer. I’ve really come to enjoy knitting jsut for teh sake of knitting without becoming too attached to the final product. I figure this is a good thing as I would soon be overrun with scarves (the socks I’m totally keeping).
I feel better now that I’ve posted about some knitting. And now it’s off to pack up my knitting books (!).
I am loving all the blues and also your lovely shoes! Are they new?
Did you end up throwing the scarf into the washing machine?
Thanks! I splurged one day and picked them up at Biscuit. They still need a little breaking in, but I do like them.
As for the scarf, I was too impatient to wait for laundry accumulation, so I soaked it with Eucalan. Not bad. It softened up, but I still think a good trip throught the washer would do wonders. Even though linen is hard on my hands, it does block beautifully.