I have finished my scarf.

[camwyn]

It is made of Rowan Kid Classic in Bear colour, with accents at both ends in Berocco Metallic FX in Copper/Black. It's long- it wraps twice around my neck and still has plenty of dangle- and about five inches wide, since I like narrow scarves more than wide ones. I blocked it with the iron to deal with the tendency of stockinette to curl, even when the edges are done in a nice flat stitch like seed. when I get the chance I'll scan some of this and put it on the Web to be seen. Next up: work on my sister's alpaca scarf, probably in the False Entrelac pattern, and also the Knitted Triangle Shawl in Lion Brand's Trellis.

oceansong told me last night that I am a yarnie the way other people are foodies. I would normally object, saying I am also something of a foodie (ask the people at the Culinary Arts and Hospitality offices at County College of Morris) and am quite happy to knit with acrylic if it suits the task to hand, but then again I am knitting a hat in part-qiviut yarn and spent the better part of an hour fussing over exactly what yarn fiber would tell my sister 'look, this is lovely, and lo, it is not weird!' best. So... yeah, yarnie.

ka_crow, I haven't forgotten you. I've got the recycled sari silk ready to go for a hat as soon as I determine how many stitches I need to cast on to my circular needle, since it's not exactly a standard-thickness yarn and has a weird gauge.

Comments

[lasa.livejournal.com]

From one 'yarnie' to another, I totally understand.

Is that sari silk the one that was highlighted in InKnitters a few months back? Very cool stuff, and I was wondering how it'd knit up. I've got cases and cases of yarns and you and I know, you can never really have enough.
Do you have the Barbara Walker stitch pattern books? If you don't, I highly recommend you getting them. They're my knitting bibles.

By the way, if you subscribe to InKnitters, look for the Turkish Cardigan that will be in the spring issue. I'm finishing it up now.

[camwyn]

I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen InKnitters. I got the yarn from Gear That Gives, through this page. They're sold out now, unfortunately, but I think they get new shipments in pretty regularly. I made a drop-stitch scarf out of one skein and still have the better part of two to go.

I almost bought one of the Walker books the other day. I think I'll do that after Christmas is over and I no longer have to shop for anyone else.

[lasa.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's beautiful stuff! The yarn in InKnitters was actual silk strips cut from saris. InKnitters always sends a little snippet of unusual yarn in each issue and that was the one two or three issues back.
http://www.inknitters.com/
Nice magazine -the layout and photography isn't beautiful like Interweave and Knitters Magazine - I get better portfolio tears from them. But InKnitters publishes nifty stuff that is aimed at the more serious knitter - I can get published in there with the stuff I've designed that I really love that would usually be over the heads of the other readership. It's worth a look.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Randomly:

Barbara Walker wrote some very good knitting dictionaries.

There are whole piles of pagans out there who wish she'd stuck to those, and not written several pieces of what can, to the scholastically-inclined pagan, be very kindly considered "dreck."

So I intend to buy those knitting dictionaries myself, yes, to encourage her doing the stuff she does rather well, rather than what she doesn't. ;)

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

No worries! Go at your own pace. I would never presume to knitpick or needle you about any of this. Indeed, one can easily gauge your kindness from all this knitting you're doing. My dear, you're a purl.

*is dragged off by the Pun Police*

[derien.livejournal.com]

That's got to be a pretty scarf - love the colors.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

The Notorious DLP and I have had The Bug for almost a year now, knitting our way through meetings, workshops, and festivals across the continent. She's scared to step away from ribs, preferring to go into more interesting yarns (ribbon, eyelash, flags, etc), whereas I have knitted knotwork to prove my cable-fu and am now very gingerly exploring Things with Intentional Holes In and Slightly Lumpy Yarn. Oh, and the thing you saw me start in NYC wound up being double-knit with some mohair that had the occasional silver and gold sparkly bits: subtle sparkle for subtle cables. I intend to wear it as a wrap for those times when I need evening elegance, like those times when I have the scratch for the symphony or opera.

So we've both gone yarny, as they say. The Notorious DLP and I visited our favorite haunt a few weeks ago, where she declared it a "feast for the eyes and fingers. It gives me the same sort of buzz an ice cream sundae would, only without the calories!"

I tried to present this argument to countgeiger a week ago, in an effort to explain why I was dragging him to a yarn store in the small window between breakfast and work (have a job, it's new but it sucks), but he Didn't Get It.

But I know you do!

The selfsame favourite haunt (one of half a dozen within ten miles of my house!) carries some of the bamboo and quiviut. I petted the quiviut! It was everything everyone had promised it'd be, yes, including expensive: at $80 for what can't be more than 10-25g of DK-weight, I can see why you went to Alaska for it!

-- Lorrie