Thank you for the information about the Hiya Hiya needles. At half the price of Addi's, it sounds like I should check them out the next time I need more needles, though it seems with all of the needles I own, I should have a "complete set" by now...but really, does anybody?
One of the comments I received on my Seamless Bottom Up Baby Booties pattern really caught my attention. Knitting Guy (author of Knitting On The Road) just happened to be designing his own seamless bottom-up pattern at roughly the same time I was, and his ideas regarding construction were very similar to mine. He is a long haul trucker, I am a stay at home mom/student, yet we each formulated a pattern for baby booties which was the same concept... Really! Follow the link to his blog and check it out! Very fun!
I spent a few minutes yesterday making a little coin purse:
I've been throwing my small change into a pocket in my back pack, and I have to go digging for it when I need it, and I'm too cheap to buy a coin purse, so I made one out of stuff I had on hand. 
I followed a pattern I found in this book. Also, a little key ring may be placed on the ribbon shown on the top of this photo... It looks sort of weird, but it's quite functional.Well, I'm two weeks into the fall semester. Earlier this week, my eight year old told me he was out of shorts. I suggested that he wear pants, because the weather is cooler. So, yesterday morning, he told me that not only is he out of shorts, but he is now *also* out of underwear. Then my five year old piped up and started telling me that he is running out of clean clothes to wear, too. I think I need to implement some sort of "process" for housework here, because I don't think my family is going to like my initial thoughts: "I'll have time for your laundry when the semester is over." Needless to say, it will be a weekend devoted to laundry...
Nothing else too exciting. I blocked Ibenholt, but it is still in three pieces, waiting to be sewn together. I'm contemplating my next projects, and have it narrowed down to three, all having yarn available in my stash:
- 1.) Must Have Cardigan, in the Patons "Street Smart" booklet, using Patons Classic Merino in the standard "Aran" color.
- 2.) Basic Chic Hoodie, by Bonne Marie Burns, using a two-tone (blues/grays) colorway of Cascade 220.
- 3.) Sienna, by Ann Smith, from Interweave Knits Fall 2006, using Mary Maxim 2-ply chunky weight acrylic.
Well, time to get cracking on the stuff I put off until the weekend... It's raining right now, so it's a perfect day to be indoors...
Have a great weekend!
Warm regards,
Laura (YarnThrower)
5 comments:
That's a great little coin purse. My change collects either in the bottom of my purse or pants pockets. And I try to unload it all on the Victor Allen's guy at Last Saturday.
I think you should make one of the first two options. Before you spend a lot of time on the Mary Maxim yarn, make a swatch and run in through a few of those loads of laundry. If the durability isn't what you would want, don't bother knitting with it. My 2 cents
Must Have Cardigan! Love that cabley goodness.
What a cute coin purse! I love it. I think "I'll do your laundry when the semester" is over is perfectly reasonable! :-)
laundry? what's laundry? (Actually, when I think of all the loads my mother must have done over the years and I didn't even think about how the clean underwear magically appeared in my dresser.....)
Somehow, I see one of the first two projects being more satisfying to you.
Has your eight-year-old already worn his underwear inside-out? Perhaps it's time to start that...the semester is long.
I like the cardigan, personally, but they're all nice options.
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