green.ketzle.net: knitting

for some reason, i didn't take a picture of the wooly mammoth shrug. it is still wooly and mammoth and has one complete sleeve and one halfway knit sleeve and some half-baked ideas of how it shall go from sleeves to shrug. i change my mind on a daily basis so no need to dwell further until such time as i am forced to make a decision.

i did manage to finish the halloween socks, on halloween while sitting at the back of the room for part of a conference meeting. i am very fond of them. so fond that i wore them before i even took the time to weave in the ends. come to think of it, i might have yet to do that. must find them and have a look.

while at more meetings during the almost five days i was away, i knit up this scarf with a skein of silk garden that used to be a beanie i never wore, and some brown yarn left over from the shrug i made this summer for my friend t. i loved the way the two looked together in the stripes and i loved the feel of this scarf but i hated the way that it constantly folded on itself to make a scarf halfway as wide as it should be. i blocked and pinned and tugged and cursed and then i put it aside and moved on.

this is a collar knit from a lonely skein of classic elite lush that has been knocking around my stash for a few years. it is so very soft and kept my neck so very warm and i so very hated it for no good reason.

so, earlier today, those two projects became this:

i will reknit both, probably this month. the brown shall still be a striped scarf but probably in a rib of some sort. and the lush will still be a neck warmer, but of a different sort. maybe a little cowl, with cables...

in preparation for the joyous season and the tree that shall soon grace us with its holiday presence, i have been sorting through my stash. i gave to goodwill a giant black trashbag completely full of skeins and cones i decided i could live without. and i mean giant -- like the 70 gallon size. you'd think that would make a dent, but not so much. i have 10 storage containers full of yarn. full. and another full of bits and bobs and other knitting accessories and the like. it is completely decadent and ridiculous. i have recommitted to the knitting only from stash, no matter how alluring the new yarn.

in that spirit, here is yet another scarf. this one will be for a friend, a christmas gift. it is mindless and fuzzy and she will absolutely love it because it is pink and fuzzy. and i love it because it kills two skeins from the stash. every little bit helps...

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