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Well, it’s about time! I finally got around to making up the chart for the Anarchy Symbol I used in my hat. And, I’ve finally got around to actually making a blog post! Damn “real life” interfering with my blog posts.
I am still here!
There is the link to the chart, enjoy! (And if it needs to be said, just in case, for personal use only and please do not reproduce or knit items for profit from this chart. Thanks!)
Yay! Another great knitting comic, this one was sent to me by my friend Christian. It’s from Questionable Content, a super good innanet comic strip. I must have missed this one as I do suscribe to this feed, so I am really glad he sent it on over. I have to say I think that this may be my fav strip on knitting so far because of the subject matter. Well, aside from my custom comic, that is! (I know it’s a leetle squished, but click the image to get to flickr where you can view the larger file size).
For some reason winter hit and all I’ve wanted to do is knit the hell outta some yarn. It’s a good thing that I’ve been so focused on it. To be frank, my stash is at astronomic proportions and I made some sort of crazy deal with my knitting group. Those girls always seem to get me into the mood to prove them wrong, and one of these days it’s going to end up with me suffering a fatal knitting injury, like a sprained throwing-finger or a knitting needle impaled palm. Not that those heartless wenches would care! But I digress. They have bet me that I can not knit 1/4 of the volume of my yarn stash by March 21st, the first day of spring.
Well, they will be proven wrong. Not only because I am a competitive nut job, but moreso because I am to knit down the volume of my stash. So really, I just can’t knit socks and lacey stuff. That’s summer knitting anyways, right now I’m all about the fast and the furiously chunky.
So to instill the fear of the knitting gods into them, here are some of more FO’s. Behold the power of the dare!
Legwarmers! These are out of the remaining cascade eco-wool from the Bubble Pullover. So comfy, just plain ol’ awesome.
These were technically started before the bet was made, but they are now finished and out of the way for more chunky yarns. Just a note, I made these with Noro Sock, and I LOVE THAT YARN SO MUCH IT HURTS. It makes such damn comfy socks. Everyone quit bitching, it’s not rough and you should appreciate the varieties we are presented with in yarns because it makes the world more interesting. Also, these have all the colours of smores. Delicious!
I also made a little headband out of some handspun. I didn’t have a lot of yardage so I didn’t really have a lot of choice when it came to a pattern to make. Here is a better, up close pic:
Believe it or not, I have more. Let me take mercy on you right now though, I don’t want your eyes to have an awesome overload.
So who else out there have ridiculous knitting goals for the new year?
I have wayyyy more FO’s, but this post just has one for you today. A co-worker of mine wanted a hat for his kid. Okay, he didn’t say he wanted a hat for his kid, but I knew that if I made a good enough hat he would want it. So, here it is. Anarchy!
Obviously, not the kid modelling it. That’s me. Get this, his kid is not even 5 years old and has a 22 inch head circumference! Insane, right? Mine is 21 inches, so I bascially knit it to fit me a bit loose so he has some space to grow in it. I used superwash Knitpicks Swish, the anarchy symbol is duplicate stitched after knitting because of my massive intarsia-hate. It has garter stitch edging, earflaps, and cords to tie it on securely. Apparently I was not far off and his kid really does like it! Success.
I would love to get the chart out there for you guys to use as well, anyone interested in it if I bother to graph it?
I am just so behind in posting my FO’s (and so ahead of the knitting game at the moment) that I decided to bring you another post with three similar items. Scarves! What could be better than waking up the week before Christmas and seeing over a foot of snow outside your door? A nice scarf to wear while exploring all that snow! New England got pwned last night with weather. While I think it’s awesome because it’s the first big snow of the year, I know that by the beginning of March I will hate hate hate it, no matter how many nice scarves are around my neck.
First up, a scarf out of handspun that was a gift for my mother’s birthday. You may recall a hat and flap mittens made out of the same yarn, her set is now complete! Simple garter stitch on size 5’s, the roving was Hello Yarn’s “warmed” merino. So squishy!
Sorry, I realize some of my pics have been on the dark side lately, I can’t tell during editing and then I am too lazy to fix them afterwards. Heh.
Next up, a scarf I made for my yoga teacher Lauren. She’s so super great I just had to do something for her. This is out of GGH Aspen. I chose a faux cable pattern that is reversible. It’s basically a 2×2 rib with a crossed stitch on every fourth row on one side, and then the next row on the other. Kinda reminds me of water!
And for the last in the threesome today, a scarf for my friend Matt made out of Reynold’s Odessey. You know, this yarn is WAY underrated and used. It’s soft, beautiful colours, knits up well, and is interesting to knit because of the variations in the plys. Why don’t more people have mad love for this stuff? I am a total convert now.
That isn’t Matt, by the way. That is Dan, helping me out with some modelling. Everyone wave to Dan!