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I gotta quit ordering yarn
Knit Picks is clearancing all their Twirl yarn out. It's a boucle-style alpaca-and-wool bulky-weight mix, with a nylon binder thread. Basically, it's Lion Brand Homespun done right, except in solid colors, not their sorta-kinda-marled look. Unlike Homespun, I can knit with it and not split the yarn constantly. Like Homespun, it's hard to make even stitches in, but in this case, it doesn't really matter that much.
I got two balls of their Fog colorway to do Urchin from the Fall '07 Knitty. I'm almost done, and it's shaping up beautifully. Just my luck to fall in love with a yarn that's being clearanced out. So I did what any sane girl would do and bought more so I can make several more of these hats in the same yarn (different colorways this time). Also picked up some undyed wool worsted weight to try Kool-Aid dying with (hopefully that'll become something interesting) and some interesting-looking tweedy stuff.
My three skeins of Brown Sheep Prairie Silks came in, too - I'm going to try the Pick-Up Diamonds Tam from the Winter '04 Knitter's Magazine. I tried that once back in '05, but made an inappropriate yarn substitution without sufficient body to hold the hat's shape, and a shapeless tam is a berry-picking bag that happens to be sitting on your head - it looks ridiculous.
I'm kind of on a hat kick right now. After spending what feels like eons on Cobweb, and with another long-term project (the Rona lace shawl) on needles, it feels really good to do small, week-or-less projects and just have them there to use or give away. (I also didn't get a photograph of my crocheted firecracker-red shawl for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wren_chan before she skedaddled off to Colorado, which I feel stupid about.)
But - I'm spending too much on my hobbies right now; between yarn, needles and hooks, perfume oils, and beads, I have plenty to keep me busy and I need to stop buying new stuff. If nothing else, I don't have room for another stash box, either beads or yarn. I think what I've got will hold me until I start ordering stuff for holiday presents in September. I might pick up the Options set in the nickel-plate when I do that, so I can use them for two-circular-needle stuff, but honestly, I've been cataloguing my tools on Ravelry and trying to get my stuff organized and I have plenty of needles. The only things I'm missing, except for DPNs which I'm trying to avoid for the most part, are an L hook (although I need to find my E hook; I can't imagine where it's gotten to unless it's hiding in my stash boxes somewhere) and circulars in some of the smaller sizes (I have 4s and 5s but nothing smaller right now, and if I'm seriously going to do lace - or socks - I need to pick some up at some point).
I got two balls of their Fog colorway to do Urchin from the Fall '07 Knitty. I'm almost done, and it's shaping up beautifully. Just my luck to fall in love with a yarn that's being clearanced out. So I did what any sane girl would do and bought more so I can make several more of these hats in the same yarn (different colorways this time). Also picked up some undyed wool worsted weight to try Kool-Aid dying with (hopefully that'll become something interesting) and some interesting-looking tweedy stuff.
My three skeins of Brown Sheep Prairie Silks came in, too - I'm going to try the Pick-Up Diamonds Tam from the Winter '04 Knitter's Magazine. I tried that once back in '05, but made an inappropriate yarn substitution without sufficient body to hold the hat's shape, and a shapeless tam is a berry-picking bag that happens to be sitting on your head - it looks ridiculous.
I'm kind of on a hat kick right now. After spending what feels like eons on Cobweb, and with another long-term project (the Rona lace shawl) on needles, it feels really good to do small, week-or-less projects and just have them there to use or give away. (I also didn't get a photograph of my crocheted firecracker-red shawl for
wren_chan before she skedaddled off to Colorado, which I feel stupid about.)But - I'm spending too much on my hobbies right now; between yarn, needles and hooks, perfume oils, and beads, I have plenty to keep me busy and I need to stop buying new stuff. If nothing else, I don't have room for another stash box, either beads or yarn. I think what I've got will hold me until I start ordering stuff for holiday presents in September. I might pick up the Options set in the nickel-plate when I do that, so I can use them for two-circular-needle stuff, but honestly, I've been cataloguing my tools on Ravelry and trying to get my stuff organized and I have plenty of needles. The only things I'm missing, except for DPNs which I'm trying to avoid for the most part, are an L hook (although I need to find my E hook; I can't imagine where it's gotten to unless it's hiding in my stash boxes somewhere) and circulars in some of the smaller sizes (I have 4s and 5s but nothing smaller right now, and if I'm seriously going to do lace - or socks - I need to pick some up at some point).