I finished my eyelash yarn and got three scarves from it – one is long and skinny, one is wider and shorter, and one is done pretty much to the pattern. The black/pink scarf starts with the pink, moves to black and then comes back to pink – it isn’t positioned well in the photo
I’ve added a few scarves to my donation bin over the past few evenings. All of the yarn for these scarves was purchased from the thrift shop.
Although I’ve made this pattern before – once with Stacia and Deloise – I can’t say that I enjoyed the process this time. It is a novelty yarn and you knit through holes in the yarn (that’s what gives the ruffle) but the yarn twisted a lot and it was often hard to find the right spot to insert my needle. Since it was a thrift store bargain it may have been re-wound by a previous owner and that resulted in the twist.
This scarf was easy to make and I finished it in one evening. All done with garter stitch, it is the yarn that gives it the texture. It is a copy-cat version of eyelash yarn but it isn’t as soft as the real thing.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
I’ve managed to empty out one of my bins of yarn. I posted an afghan earlier and I finished another one. Although it is hard to see this actually has four different shades of pink. It is longer and skinnier than I would have liked but it will cover someone’s knees and legs if they are cold.
There were also a couple of skeins of brown in the bin so I made up a couple of hats.
What I’m not showing is the overflowing bin just above where the empty one is. There are all sorts and varieties of yarn in it – mostly for scarves and maybe some hats. I started work on a scarf last night.
We are having a Guild business meeting tonight via Zoom. I hope it works better than the Zoom meeting we were supposed to have with Taylor’s school assembly this afternoon. Taylor is receiving an award of some sort (even Taylor didn’t know what for); the school admitted they had some technical issues and have rescheduled for tomorrow. We have our first Zoom event for the Hall on the weekend and I sure hope someone knows how to work it all.
Friday, January 8, 2021
It is a good thing I managed to get something accomplished last night because I certainly have little to show for today’s time.
This is the first of what I hope will be many afghans for donation this year. It took a bit of time to figure out the crochet stitch and then the limited amount of yarn I had didn’t go as far as I expected. It is a nice lap size though or perhaps for a baby. I have started another one with the same pattern so there will be no rest for my sore wrists.
I certainly noticed the stiffness in my wrists today as I spent most of the day cutting. For a couple of projects I’ll be working on next week I needed several background squares cut – 300 in one size, 150 in another, and 72 in another. Before I’m ready to start working on the projects though I still have to mark sewing lines on 150 of those squares.
I’ve set out another scrappy pinwheel quilt on the floor across the hall; I sent a photo to Stacia and Deloise to get their opinion before I start sewing the blocks together. I’m expecting Pat will be using my computer over the weekend so he can weigh in on my placement too.