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January 21, 2008
Knitty happy days
Guys, I keep knitting happily. My respectful queen of mindless knitting, Chelsea doesn't stop giving me endless happiness to knit. It is the first time for me to try Artyarns Supermerino, and almost immediately after I casted it on, I started to search the online shop which carries the very yarn….Oh I love the yarn, madly. It is sooooo dreamy soft, flying between needles and my finger, almost slippery, and color...it really makes me thrilled. I have to thank Shobhana to give me an opportunity to discover the yarn. Oh. Any sale information of this yarn are highly welcomed!
Regardless above, the actual progress is not so far. Because I tell you, something interrupted the honeymoon of Chelsea and me. It was, after all, an ugly pair of yellow mitten knitted by myself 6 years ago. It was for my DS first when he was baby, and I have just dived into the new knitting world at that time. I have started to collect yarns and these are knitted with Jaeger matchmaker merino DK in variegated shade(it has long been discontinued, you know) of red, orange and yellow and Tasmanian DK wool shade yellow. The yarns are good, just the mitten was knitted terribly and has strange shape, the thumb is too short to put the real finger of human. Shame on me, recently on a freezing morning I took it again from the bottom of closet and had my DS second use them. Poor son. He was just happy to have mittens on, to go to nursery. But the other day I just looked at it closely and stunned how ugly it is, and completely weird thumb length.
I asked DS second, if I knit another new pair of mitten for him, which color he preferred.He replied immediately, "Pink!"
Yes, I don't know why but my 3 years-old son loves Pink. I hesitated though, to knit a pink pair of mitten...so I put my nose into my satellite stash cases which contains orphaned skeins and grabbed a raspberry (not baby) pink yarn and pumpkin orange yarn, showed him. He generously approved my selection of colors, so far I made a pair of new mitten for him:
I made first one at night for around only two hours , and the next morning I made him try the one. It was too small. Ugh.
So I knitted the second one a bit larger.
Fortunately this time it worked. This is no fancy FO, just useful for him and it is "in-need" knitting, yet it is my second FO of 2008!
BTW, speaking about in-need, recently I've got one of my "desperately in need" yarn. It was Rowan Felted Tweed shade #136, Corn. It has been discontinued since 2003 and at these days I bought 6 balls of it ambitioning to knit something someday with it. I just loved the subtle, delicate shade. And the other day recently during knitting blog-surfing, I was hit by an ideal project for the yarn. I knew the design and wanted to knit one day, but I didn't put it into my stash. Now I found the perfect pattern for the yarn, except the fact of lacking one ball.
The project calls 7 balls of it and I have 6. I absolutely love the yarn and want to use it definitely, but the shade has been discontinued years ago. Of course I tried eBay, googling all over the world, put message at "seeking yarn" place, in vain.
In the meantime, one day my DS first was invited to a friend, who lives by 20 minutes subway ride from our home. I took him to, and noticed at the moment of leaving the station, that it is where my LYS is actually located! I didn't think about it at all!(I don't go LYS frequently since I get most of yarns by online) It was long time I haven't been there, so happily I visited the shop. Hitching some beautiful wool, I asked the owner if they have some orphans felted tweed of old shade by chance. They didn't, of course. However, the owner kindly offered me to ask Rowan distributer and other shops, just in case. The next day, I've got a call from the shop to announce that they FOUND A BALL!!
Dear friend, it is not so bad at all, to live in a rustic site on the planet, in a point of knitting view. Please just disregard the batch of yarn behind the felted tweed in question, these are kind of, ew, you know, some stuff followed me.
Posted by trico at January 21, 2008 10:35 PM
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I was so glad to read your post and see that you've recaptured your knitting mojo. And your persistence (or was it knitter's karma?) paid off to get you that last ball of the discontinued color of felted tweed. What do you have planned for it? I'm happy to hear you like the Artyarns Supermerino. I have a sweater's worth in the stash in an intense red colorway I hope to get to before long (but I'm a very slow knitter with too many WIPs). I've never used that yarn and I hope I like it too. You made me laugh with your talk of "rustic place."
Posted by: Peggy at January 26, 2008 01:26 AM