Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick’s day everybody! You’ll notice that my site is green to commemorate the day. Even though I’m not Irish, I’ll take any excuse I can find to drink – even if it’s green beer. I’m not much of a beer drinker myself, but I don’t think I could bring myself to dye my rum green. So I’ll be going out a little later for some green beer and wings.In the meantime, for St. Patrick’s Day, check through your stash and pull out some yarn – but it has to be GREEN! Believe it or not, the only yarn I have that’s green that comes immediately to mind, is the one I dyed green for my Jamaican gold sweater. Well, I’ll have to try and find something else green – wait, I know! I have quite a bit of Lopi around and I’m sure I have green or green tweeds in that somewhere. Thank goodness Helen had me organize my stash a few weeks ago so i can actually find it. So this sounds like a little contest in the making. The first person to show me a picture of something made in green yarn (not previously done) will get a little surprise from me. The only catch is that you have to finish it before I do. If I’m the first person, then nobody wins – hehe. I’m a pretty quick knitter, so pull out your balls and get going! Send me an e-mail with a picture and I’ll do a post about this in the future.
The test scarf - you can see I casted it on waaaay too tight!
As far as knitting for today, well, I did some work on multi-directional knitting. I mentioned in a previous post that I was a member of a group on Yahoo and had gotten a pattern for a scarf. Well, being the type of knitter I am I tried it first with just some white organic wool to test it out as it was a new technique for me. Once I understood the concept behind it, I used another yarn (multi-colored) and made one to the width I wanted. The scarf is worked in triangles – 2 right hand triangles (one to cast on and start, and one to cast off and finish), and as many isosceles triangles as you want for the body.
The MD Sscarf I'm working on ...
I understood the concept behind getting started and making the body of the scarf but hadn’t done the last triangle as yet. Earlier today I worked on my practice scarf to get the jist of the last right hand triangle to finish the scarf. Now that I have it, it’s time to finish the real one. So I’ll get on that and show you a picture of it very soon – maybe as soon as tomorrow, or even later tonight!
Hugzzz 😎
