sock yarn, like nail polish, is pretty serious business
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: koigu kpppm, projects: daybreak, tanis fiber arts blue label, things i knit, triangular shawls, yarn i use | Tags: daybreak, daybreak shawl, knit, knitblogging, knitplanning, knitting, sock yarn, tanis fiber arts | 4 Comments »I’ve sort of been spinning my wheels, knitting-wise, since finishing my Featherweight last week. I made a deal with myself in early August that I couldn’t start the fall sweater I want to make – an adult-sized version of EZ’s Tomten Jacket – until I’d finished that cardigan. And on the one hand, now that Featherweight is done, I’m excited to be “allowed” to start working on that sweater. It’s knit in worsted weight, and the entire thing is garter stitch, and I’m very very excited for being on autopilot for a month while I make that happen.
On the other, I can’t actually start until I’ve done some swatching and sketching and a fair bit of math, which I just haven’t been in the mood for lately. (It’s very high-stakes math. If I make a mistake, I don’t find out until a month later when I’ve knit a disaster.)
So I’ve been working on smaller, less thought-and-labour-intensive projects until then. I finished my Daybreak:
And I bought some more sock yarn. As you do. This is Tanis Fiber Arts, in Midnight (bright blue) and Shadow (grey). I’ve completely butchered the colours of the yarn by taking photos of it inside my apartment before the sun is up, but they’re lovely and go wonderfully together and neither of them is weirdly yellow-green like the light is telling you.
It’s possible they’ll actually be socks (I’m thinking stripey) although it’s equally possible they’ll end up as more triangular shawls, because they really are addicting. (And they can also be stripey.) I’ve got my eye on Ulmus.
Maybe if I made my shawl really tiny, I could get away with both?
Song of the Entry: Meese – The Start Of It (Listen)
Ooh, the daybreak is looking pretty.
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