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June 04, 2006
Ziplocked
Last week I wasn't in mood for knitting so much...maybe because it was a very hot week (scored 30 decrees celsius on June 1st here in Tokyo), and my DS second got rubella and I locked up with him at home for full week, and he is very fine except his rashes so he runs all day at home, or....maybe there is no reason.
I just didn't feel I could knit with a very fine and stern yarn for a rather boring simple pattern. (BTW: I imagined if I put a Kaffe Fassett's 13-colored intarsia flower on the top left side of the tank, instead of funny-faced seahorse. Just a thought.) And the other secret project requires me some concentration to follow the pattern.
As a result, I casted on another project....oh-ah...
I happened to find this yarn, Celeste from Jaeger, 4 balls, when I looked into my stash. I have bought them last year to make this Coast tank from their JB17 book and forgot it. This tank requires only 4 balls of the yarn, and the yarn is soft, wide ribbon yarn and call 9mm needles. Before noticing, I have casted on.
The photo has been taken yesterday, and since I have finished the first ball. It is just half of the back, easy.
By the way, now I am kind of liking this "ziplocked" knitting. You know, there is some yarns, often it is summer yarn, which cannot be pulled the yarn end from center. So as a result your ball is rolling anywhere during knitting and it is always annoying me. And I found this way. People, this is not so bad. This keeps the form of the ball and let the end pulled, as it should be. Normally I am the one who don't use Ziplocks for storing yarn, so maybe this kind of use might be well known for those who use the bag as standard knitting equipment...do you?
And the yarn. Wanna see close up?
This is a blend of Linen, Viscose and Polyamide. Mine is very linen-like color with blue-green nallow stripes. I think this yarn has been discontinued but you can find yet. The knitted texture is like that:
It is quite thick and uneven. Well, we'll see which project progress more for next time...
Posted by trico at June 4, 2006 10:49 PM
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How is the ribbon yarn to knit with? It is certainly very pretty! I use zip-lock bags all the time to hold projects...it's very handy in keeping round skeins from rolling onto the ground. :) My only dislike of using the bag is that they sometimes smell very strongly of plastic...kind of an off-putting scent when one takes out the knitting.
Posted by: Marie at June 12, 2006 07:32 AM
Yes, I started using Ziplocks to hold my yarn after my cat kept chasing the balls rolling along the floor!
Perhaps you could put one of your lovely mini sachets of lavender in with the wool to keep it smelling fresh?
Posted by: impressionist at June 17, 2006 05:24 AM