IrenicEmbers

I’ve been obsessed with yarns and knitting. I offered to knit my friend Gen a scarf in rainbow colours. I first bought this cotton bulky yarn thinking that it would be perfect. The colour on it was like rows and rows of candy cane. Being the beginner knitter that I am, I didn’t realize that it would take *so* much yarn to do a scarf using bulky weight. I knitted the first skein and the length was barely a foot, and the yarn was about $9 a skein. It was going to take like 10 skeins to complete this bitch.

Instead my quick thinking mind came up with just making a cowl. I just have to add the buttons.

So that still left me with having to make a scarf for Gen. Back to the yarn shop I went and got this really pretty multicolour bit. What I didn’t realize was that it was a really, really skinny yarn.

To knit this much, a length of about 4.5 inches, it took me about 2 hours. Most of it was fighting with the needle because the yarn’s so soft and the aluminum needle is no match. It kept sliding off.  So I have to stop at the yarn store again to get some bamboo needles. They have much more grip and really I don’t need a 13 inch long needle for this. It was the only one that had the circumference that I needed.

I’m headed to NY at the end of July to try on the wedding dress and also because it’s my mom’s 54th birthday. I decided to knit her this mohair/wool scarf. I started in beginning of June and finished a few days ago. I think she’ll like it. It’s super soft and has some stretch to it.

She has to wear a lot of black for her job and I figured the bright red of the wool will go nicely against black. It’s a bit narrower than the one that I’d made for Nick and it’ll work nice to wrap around like this or just once.

So to get over my funk and general stomach turning over the weekend (stuipd, meddling aunt), I decided to pull images off the camera and see what was on there.

A few months back, we’d taken Blaze for a ride up to the mountains and I took my knitting with me. Here are some pictures of a scarf that I knitted for Nick. It was my first attempt and the damned thing took forever!

Knit one…purl none, didn’t know how to purl at this point.

Knitting with mountains in behind, long needles and a bumpy Jeep.

About a foot in, taken on the dashboard of the Jeep. The edges are a bit bumpy.

The finished product, it’s a bit wider than I would have liked. Nick was nice enough to say it was the best scarf anyone’s ever knitted him. I’ve been the only one that’s ever knitted him a scarf by the way.

I’ve been hibernating because Spring refuses to come to the Pacific NW.

I’ll start updating soon enough I suppose.

I did however, find a new addiction (as if warcraft, obsessing about wedding, and making fun of people weren’t enough)

Behold: