So in November I Participated in NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. I wrote a novel that will likely never see the light of day. During that process I buddied up with another author who I think of as Professional and had a bit of a "fangirl" attraction too. we challenged each other through Wrimo and both won. In the process of discussing our creative endeavors he suggested I follow @BrightEyedDyer on twitter. So I did.
She Dyes yarn, mostly sock yarn, but every year picks a few novels and makes a colorway blend that represents those books. After a few back and forth replies I ordered some of her yarn.
I have never knitted with Sock yarn. It is SMALL. I had to buy a new circular needle because the smallest I had was an 8 and I needed at most a 2 for this yarn. and I always get circulars because I hate straights. I drop them every time I try to throw a knitted stitch so I just ignore them at all costs.
A few days later I recieved in the mail, a plain yellow envelope. Inside it had the most fun ball of yarn I had ever seen. She called it "Childhood" and I admit it did make me giggle like a kid again. I had decided that I was going to use this new yarn in a project using an Entrelac pattern because of the way the colors shifted. The envelope also had a nice simple purple that went well with Childhood. I was good to go...or so I thought.
I make hats, lots of hats. I wanted to make a hat.
This hat started with the purple in the swirly increase I seem to do with most of my hats. 8 sections, Magic loop method, increasing 1 stitch per section on every other row until the top of the hat was big enough for my head and the number of stitches on the needles was a multiple of 6. Then I did a round of Entrelac base triangles in the purple also.
Then the first row of Childhood entrelac squares. This round took FOREVER. I was still learning the pattern and was still turning the entire project back and forth ever 6 stitches for 48 squares. Took me just over a week. This had to change. The second round of Entrelac squares went the other direction around the hat. I tried doing the Pearling without turning the project. It worked. Knocked out the second round in 3 days, but now I was running out of yarn.
Contacted @BrightEyedDyer again, asked about the purple, or a green or a teal or a bright blue or a yellow or any of the other colors in the Childhood.
Well I just got another envelope, has bright green and bright turquoise. Now I want to change my mind on how the pattern is and I have a sinking feeling that I will be ripping out ALL of the second round of Childhood so that I can fit Turquoise and green in with more purple lol.
Someday this will be a GREAT looking hat lol.