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November 21st, 2004

Thank you soooo much for all of your nice comments on Klaralund and my little beanie and wrist-warmers . I feel all warm and fuzzy now .

I finished yet another set of Silk Garden beanie/wrist-warmers. Here’s a pic (I’ll spare you the modeling shot - this time):

I used exactly the same patterns as the the set in the previous post. The colorway is #211 (leftover from Klaralund). I’m kind of bummed because the two wristwarmers don’t *exactly* match. One seems much more colorful than the other. And I’m worried that the person that I give it to will be critical of that (I know, I have self-confidence issues). I’m am kind of tempted to re-knit one of them so that the colors match a little bit better, but at this point I don’t want to fuss with it. I’ve got other presents to get to. If I have time later, then I might. If not, then the recipient can unravel, learn to knit, and do what she wants with an unravelled skien of Silk Garden (dammit!).

I am currently (at this moment) making (yet another) Silk Garden beanie. I am NOT going to make a set of wrist warmers to go with this one, though. I have three skeins in colorway 206 (which is turning out to be absolutely GORGEOUS). So one will be a hat, and the other two will be a scarf. I am going to use the keyhole scarf pattern from Stitch-n-Bitch 1. I believe it’s called the “windy city scarf.” I haven’t tried that pattern yet and It looks easy and brainless, and slightly different (the keyhole).

I went to one of my LYSs yesterday to buy a couple skeins of Cashmerino and walked out with a little bit more yarn than I intended:

The two balls of Cashmerino will be beanies for my husband’s brothers. I found out that one of his brothers is a yarn snob . Apparently, he really likes merino wool. So I will make him a hat with Cashmerino. It’s nice because it’s washable, and contains merino wool AND a touch of cashmere. This, to me, is funny because this guy used to be a hard-core, punk-rocker, skateboarder when I met him twelve years ago. My, things sure change.

I also bought that fancy Eros Glitz with some feathery black yarn to make a stole for my Mother-in-law. There is a little story behind this….

I got back into knitting in February of this year, when my Mother-in-law and I went to a craft expo. There were vendors offering crafts from scrapbooking to Russian Punchneedle Embrodery, to sewing, to quilting, and of course, knitting. At the time, I was going through this manic I-need-a-creative-outlet phase. I had recently graduated from library school and and finally had the free time to pursue something right-brained. I bought lots of crafty things that day: a punch-needle embroidery kit, some stencils and scrapbook paper, and a ball of Eros yarn with instructions for an eros scarf. Both of us saw this little scarf and fell in love with it. So I knitted up the scarf and haven’t looked back since. In fact, it was when I went to Beverly’s fabrics to buy embroidery thread that I happened upon the book, Stitch-n-Bitch. I bought it instead of the thread. And you know the rest of the story . Knitting was just the creative outlet I needed, I just needed to be re-introduced to it.

So the other night, when we were at dinner at the in-laws, Mrs. P told me that for Christmas she wanted me to teach her how to knit that scarf from the craft expo. I was delighted that she wanted to learn how to knit! I told her I would give her a ball of the yarn , some needles, and I would show her how to knit the scarf.

When I went to go buy the yarn, I realized that Eros yarn is NOT the kind of yarn one should learn how to knit with (duh!). But I did see this lovely little stole on display at the yarn store knitted with two balls of Eros and trimmed with a fuzzy, fake fur type yarn. Not something I would wear, but definately her (she likes glitzy).

I am really excited to knit the Eros stole. It will be fun to knit something totally glitzy like that. Sometimes it’s fun to make things that are not at all your style, but secretly kind of like .

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