I have been remiss...didja miss me?
Life has been crazy, too crazy to think about posting to this blog. But I have been keeping up with knitting--how could I not knit? The daily yarn fix is vital to my well being and is greatly missed when I miss it.
I finished one of my projects, knit with Mary Maxim Sparkle mohair. I made it with one skein just to see how far one skein would go. It made a smallish triangle but large enough to cover the shoulders on a cold morning. I have one skein of that same yarn for each color they make except the brown range--I just can't get into knitting brown.
But almost all my other projects have been put on hold so I could finish a scarf for a friend I had to leave when my job ended. It is Araucania Lonco (cotton, sock weight) in green/brownish/gold shades which is her color palette. I knitted it in garter stitch with a rather random yarn-over pattern. It is almost done--I had hoped to get it done before leaving--,within a week if I keep at it. I did show it to her before leaving and said I would be sending it. It is looking quite nice and if it performs like one I have knitted in red shades, she will love it. The scarf seems to hug your shoulders and doesn't even need fastening--it will stay where it is put.
I have some of the same yarn in green/blue/purple and another skein of red/heliotrope/orange. What I want to make of them will come to me someday.
Next project: another wedding shawl because I have three g-daughters who will marry some day more than likely. The one pictured with this blog was given to my new g-daughter in NZ for her wedding to g-son, with mitts to match. She told me she had no grannys to knit her something like that and was quite overcome with the gift. She wore it at the reception, which, BTW, I didn't see because I figured if I tried a 14 hour trip to NZ, they would have had to haul me off the plane on a gurney.
Also, continuing a pair of socks whenever the mood strikes. And planning to start a mobius scarf with a beautiful, soft mohair I found on sale. Only one skein but enough for a mobius.
