crafty progress
Oct. 4th, 2007 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyI continue to work on a shawl for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
syprina.
This is the first project that I have done entirely out of my stash - in other words, just based on yarn that I already had, that happened to be lying around as it were, and it's going very well. Last night I realized that it needed a third color. We had started with two - a dark blue with yellow tones, four-ply wool I frogged a few years back and have used for many projects - and a shiny, sparkly, fuzzy yarn called Mondial in purple with blue fringe and gold accents. But the limitations of working from the stash became apparent - I realized that I only had two skeins of Mondial, rather than the four I had thought I had, and the limitless well of the blue four-ply has, in fact, begun to find its limit.
I knew it was time for a color variation in the shawl. But I wanted to save the rest of the fuzzy stuff for the edge of the shawl. After some back and forth, and some digging, I found two balls of a single-ply wool I picked up at knitcetera a few months back from the "free" box. It seems to have been spacedyed. I'm not sure who made it originally - the color and texture reminds me of Manos del Uruguay, but it doesn't have that thick-and-thin quality.
I have to say, this third yarn is really making the piece. It looks like I bought a kit in a store. "Make yourself this beautiful shawl in cool colors for just $79.99!" It also is validating my earlier hook size choice - the other yarns could have used a bigger hook, but not this third one, it would have been too loose. I think I'm about halfway done with the shawl at this point, and hopefully I can present it ceremonially tosyprina in a few weeks.
Tomorrow afternoon is my appointment to see a woman about a shawl. Hopefully I can get a good determination as to whether I should try to fix the (other, complicated) shawl, or just plain start over.
syprina. This is the first project that I have done entirely out of my stash - in other words, just based on yarn that I already had, that happened to be lying around as it were, and it's going very well. Last night I realized that it needed a third color. We had started with two - a dark blue with yellow tones, four-ply wool I frogged a few years back and have used for many projects - and a shiny, sparkly, fuzzy yarn called Mondial in purple with blue fringe and gold accents. But the limitations of working from the stash became apparent - I realized that I only had two skeins of Mondial, rather than the four I had thought I had, and the limitless well of the blue four-ply has, in fact, begun to find its limit.
I knew it was time for a color variation in the shawl. But I wanted to save the rest of the fuzzy stuff for the edge of the shawl. After some back and forth, and some digging, I found two balls of a single-ply wool I picked up at knitcetera a few months back from the "free" box. It seems to have been spacedyed. I'm not sure who made it originally - the color and texture reminds me of Manos del Uruguay, but it doesn't have that thick-and-thin quality.
I have to say, this third yarn is really making the piece. It looks like I bought a kit in a store. "Make yourself this beautiful shawl in cool colors for just $79.99!" It also is validating my earlier hook size choice - the other yarns could have used a bigger hook, but not this third one, it would have been too loose. I think I'm about halfway done with the shawl at this point, and hopefully I can present it ceremonially to
syprina in a few weeks.Tomorrow afternoon is my appointment to see a woman about a shawl. Hopefully I can get a good determination as to whether I should try to fix the (other, complicated) shawl, or just plain start over.