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.
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.
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 😎