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Archive for August 7th, 2005

Knitting Update and New Yarn

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

yarnI have been knitting a good deal lately. I’m working again on my Lucy Neatby Equilateral Vest, and a pair of slouch socks in Bazic Wool washable (fat) wool yarn). I am a third of the way through a Lily Chin bra from her book, Urban Knitter.

In addition, I have plans to knit a bathing suit top from Cascade Fixation and a pattern I got at Yarn for Ewe (I’m going blank on the pattern designer right now). I have plans to document some socks I already knit, and to design some patterns for items in yarn I handpainted myself.

I have a few ideas for some projects on my two knitting machines. I have swatches done for a couple of yarns (on my old/bulky hobby machine) already, and I hope to do a few more this week, one for a sweater for my beloved Brian and one (perhaps on my newer machine) for a summer top for me.

And then I went and bought yarn! I seem to never run out of ideas for beautiful yarns I find.

I got some coned yarns to try on the knit machines, plus this gorgeous multi-turquoise handpainted sockyarn. It’s Artyarns Ultramerino4. This is an unusual yarn. It’s 8 plies, four two-ply bundles all plied together into one tubular texture. It’s pretty fine yarn, will definitely need size 0 needles (2mm).

But I can never resist turquoise sockyarn! I can’t think of anything it won’t go with, at least for daytime wear. What will this yarn be? I don’t know yet, and I have so much already going on that I don’t need to hurry with ideas. Isn’t it a beauty?