It feels like forever since I posted (recent) pictures, but it’s true! I downloaded them off my camera a mere three minutes ago, just to bring them here to you!
First, we have the turquoise and white clutch from One Skein, before felting. Even the bottom is seamed, can you believe it?! I hardly can, and I did it. The colors remind me of something, but I can’t think what. Something commercial. Not Microsoft, not Apple…. They’re the same colors as my own employer’s logo, but I don’t think that’s it either. Maybe it’ll come to me, someday.
Next up in our show and tell is the “What a Difference Blocking Can Make!” scarf, done in orange and red cotton in feather and fan. The cotton was purchased from Suss Design (at least, I think that’s the name of her shop on Beverly, but you know who I mean–there’s only one Suss!) with the orange and red already wrapped together. Next time, I’ll separate them and ball them separately, ’cause it was a nightmare trying to knit them off the same ball with their slightly different weights and tensions. However, the colors make my heart sing, and that’s really all that’s important, right?
In other news, I cast on the purple and turquoise Little Coco last night while watching Chuck and Heroes. It took me the full two hours just to do the bottom of the bag. The stitch isn’t standard garter or even stockinette; it’s something for which I don’t know the name, but looks awesome and creates a stronger felted bottom than you get from garter or stockinette. I’ve always intended to make a scarf with that pattern, but so far it hasn’t happened. The other reason it went slowly is the yarn–I’m using Lamb’s Pride, double stranded, which is thicker than I expected, and more tiring for my fingers. It should be easier once I’m working in the round, though.
And just for the hell of it, I give you Jack, trying to nibble off a piece of a dead hydrangea:
