OOOO not thrilled!

I Loved the ball of the patchwork yarn when I bought it. how neat to have 3 different types of yarn in one ball. NOW, not so thrilled. I tried to do a simple drop stitch scarf with it. the eyelash and mohair yarn are so much thinner than the slubby yarn that it looks ridiculous. I am thinking of frogging it and doing it lengthwise instead, see if that helps. I just don't know. Maybe I should have just left it as a ball *sigh*.

Meanwhile I finished the soysilk and wool pouch, its just waiting to be felted. I kept going so that the top edge is blue, then I crocheted a cord to go with it as the drawstring that will be felted as well. I will post the before felting and after felting pics later.

I MUST be insane!

I can't make this ball of yarn scan right so this picture does it no justice at all.

It is a crazy bright ball of neon pink, purple, green and yellow wool blend yarn. (the pale pink you see in the picture is actually the neon pink in real life). I want to make mittens out of it. looking for a pattern and will probably need to buy a second ball.

I admit that I am almost ready to accept my yarn addiction as a fact. I was out with the kids on Thursday and we were walking PAST http://www.yellowdogknitting.com/ and HAD to stop in. I even left my dish of "Rum Black Cherry" ice cream in the hands of my 12 yr old outside to do it.

I will not admit the addiction...yet.

FOUND THEM!!

just requested 3 pattern books at the local library. Thank the yarn gods that libraries are all networked now a days. One book (charmed knits) is coming from a library 2 hours away. the other 2 books (Victorian knits today and a book of scarves and stoles) is coming from an hour away. No Idea when they will be in but once I get them I can scan the patterns I want to decide if I want to attempt them or not.

On another note, I want the gorgeous new rainbow wood modular needles they have at Knit Picks.
http://www.knitpicks.com/Options+Harmony+Wood+Interchangeable+Needle+Set_ND90306.html

My birthday is the end of November guys......

MORE yarns

OK so here is the ribbon yarn from Dollar Tree. Its a dangerous thing to find funky fibers for $1 each. I picked this up in this black and gray, in a "rust" spectrum and rainbow. This is an attempt at a crocheted snood to go with my SCA garb. if this works I will pick up some pale yellow yarn somewhere and make one to match my new dress too.

It is all double crocheted stitches with increases to make it a flat circle It will be about 24" across when its done but will have an elastic band around the outside edge when its done. not sure if it will be floppy enough or not but its worth the attempt at least. if it does not work as a snood I will leave it as a flat circle for the center of my dining room table.





















Here is a fun ball of wool I found. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it but whatever it is it will end up felted. probably another tube stitch dice bag.


This yarn I HAD to buy. It is called "Patchwork". It has 3 very different types of yarn. one is an eyelash type the next is a twisted wool and the 3rd is a fluffy wool. again No clue what I'm going to do with it but it looked cool.






I still have the Insane Chip Scarf to finish as well as a half granny square crocheted shawl. I also have the soy silk and wool rainbow dice pouch still on my needles.

I'm in finals week for this semester so I will have to greatly resist the urge to pick up a project instead of doing my schoolwork.

I still want to find the "Gathering of Lace" book so I can see if I should even consider attempting the Feather and fan lace circle shawl. I figure that a great project for if I am ever hospitalized again. its the only way I will have the time or the focus to finish it.

WOOT finished one!

OK it's the loopy scarf. Should look really cute with my funky fake fur "Betty Page" winter coat. Well once I replace the buttons that fell off of it last winter.

New suprises!

When a person states "I have craft projects I may NEVER finish" on a dating website profile, She shouldn't be surprised when she finds unfinished projects she forgot about.

While digging a sick cat out from under my bed I found a small plastic tote. Inside was the most GAWDAWFUL red heart variegated yarn. Rainbow colors...all of them. attached to that skein was a crochet hook and a mostly finished loopy scarf that was started 2 years ago. When goofy, brightly colored loopy scarves were trendy.


Best I can do for instructions are
Double crochet a Base that is 7 stitches wide and however long you want your scarf to be.
chain 10, sc around bar of DC chain 10... (continue ad nauseaum until the end of the scarf).

I guess you can make it loopier with more chains or tighter with less.

Here it is, I have about a foot left of a 5 ft long scarf.


Ok so variegated yarns and I seem to be attracted to each other like chocolate on a toddlers white t-shirt. Here is a standing dice bag made with Sugar and Cream cotton yarn. yes variegated but I like how the colors lined up on the bigger one lol. These were single crocheted in the round for friends of mine that had dice and gaming tokens and floppy bags that tipped over, i started by making a coaster and going straight up the sides with a DC row at the top and a chained string to hold it together. They look a bit like can coolies and i guess the pattern could be extended longer for a water bottle holder too.



That's it for now. Will post about the new ribbon yarn I found at Dollar Tree in another post (once I have a finished project to show it off).