07.09.06

A Delica’s Yarns Weekend

Posted in Crochet, Dying, Knitting, Photos, Socks, Yarn at 6:08 pm by delipics

It started on Friday, at lunch time - notice the bag of chocolates to keep us motivated. KB@W with the lavender yarn (Hey DR, I’m stuck on the same fricking stitch!) is crocheting a baby blanket and KB@W below is knitting a poncho (just like mine!).

I love the yarn she’s using, one of the Karabella cottons (I can’t remember if it is the DK or the worsted) that she bought on a run to School Products. You cannot tell in the photo, but the yarn has the most wonderful sheen to it.

On Saturday I finally went to my first summer BBQ at which I pulled out my sock to work on during eating breaks. It went something like this: eat hot dog, digest, eat chicken, digest, guiltily eat salad and fruit after the meat-fest.

On Sunday, it being a beautiful sunny day, perfect for hanging yarn outside to dry, I decided to Kool-Aid dye –

This skein of Reynolds Lopi has been sitting around patiently, waiting to be dyed the perfect color. I wanted a green so I decided to mix lemon-lime and arctic green apple Kool-Aid - yowza! The results being this electric green. I think I will dye this again to tone down the eye-blinding intensity, poor thing.

Next, took photos of my swatches for the summer wrap I want to make. The pattern is the Sweet Pea Shawl, by Amie Hirtes, in Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. The first swatch is from an unidentified boucle cone of yarn that I have had sitting around since my college days. The second is Lion Brand’s Textures Chenille that I found in the discounted yarn bin at an art supply store near work.

In my July 6th post I vowed to knit this wrap only using yarns from my stash - NO YARN BUYING. I do have a couple other yarns I could try, but I think I may use the boucle yarn. It shows-off the shell pattern better than the chenille.

And the latest completed Delica’s Yarn project - WHOOT - my first-pair-of-socks ever!!!

Specs:

• I used Koigu KPPPM, 100% merino wool
• On Clover US 1 (2.25 mm) bamboo double pointed needles
• Following the Koigu Fun Socks master pattern

These socks feel great and they fit, which is a big deal for me because I have small feet. Love the Koigu, of course, anxious to buy more of it. And now that I have learned how to make them, I must knit another pair of socks. Oooh, it’s a whole new sock world out there . . .

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