{"id":504,"date":"2010-03-17T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:47:46","slug":"show-me-your-green-balls-no-not-you-hulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Show me your GREEN BALLS! (No, not you HULK!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy St. Patrick’s day everybody! You’ll notice that my site is green to commemorate the day.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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The test scarf - you can see I casted it on waaaay too tight!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0 – 2 right hand triangles (one to cast on and start, and one to cast off and\u00a0 finish), and as many isosceles\u00a0 triangles as you want for the body.<\/p>\n

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The MD Sscarf I'm working on ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n

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Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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