My needles are on fire
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Raffa took this pic last night and I thought I’d post it here since it’s knitting related. I love how my hands are all blurry! It echos my manic knitting the past few days.
I should have posted this over the weekend, but I didn’t. I finsihed the back of Audrey:
I am really enjoying this knit so far, I have to say. The yarn is very soft and comfy. And I am really enjoying the increases and decreases. The pattern is definately keeping my interest. I felt kind of sketchy at first on the increases but it all worked itself out. I like how they turned out.
I put Audrey on hold, though, because I am currently obsessed with:
Thats right! I decided to use my silk garden to knit up Clapotis. I am obsessed with this project. I woke up at 4am the other morning thinking about this project and couldn’t go back to sleep! (I’m crazy, I know). But I am glad I decided to go with this pattern instead of Karlsro for this colorway. I think the more subdued colors make for a better scarf/stole. This is colorway #88 btw. Plus, the more I think about it, the less and less I like Karlsro. It looks cute in the picture, but in reality it’s the kind of sweater that would get on my nerves, I think. I’ve never been much of a “wrap” person. Clapotis will be much more versitile.
And I have an FO to show you, too. I finished a beanie that I am gifting to Raffa’s brother Joaquin:
Nothing fancy about it..Just *yet another* beanie. I have one more to knit for Christmas…My husband, upon seeing this hat, informed me that he wants one now…It’s gonna hafta wait. Ima gettin sick of dem beanies.
I’ve kind of been thinking about some of my current UFOs, too. I’m thinking about going a different direction with some of them. For one, I’ve been working on that Trana scarf with my LaBoheme and I’m just not feeling it at all. I don’t like it. It’s a fun pattern to knit, but I don’t think I would ever wear it. I think what I may do is a simple garter stich skinny scarf with beads. I like Heather’s little scarf from her Budda picture and was thinking of making something that skinny.
Also, I am thinking it’s a no-go on the Bertie bag. I hate that pattern. I think I will use the ginormous amount of that Den-m-nit for the Jess cardigan that I was drooling over in this post.
And then there’s the Widow’s shawl. I am thinking of frogging that yet again and using it for Alice from Rowan 35. That yarn is so scrumptious and I want to actually wear what I knit with it. So we’ll see. I need to knit up a swatch of it with teeny needles to see what kind of gauge I get with it. And then there’s the question of whether this pattern is above my skill level, too. Kind of important.
Just some knitty things i’ve been thinking about lately 
Well, I gotta jet. Gotta go do my “Virtual Reference” shift. Have a nice evening, or morning, or what have you…
Note: Just so you know, the title of this post is in no way meant to “steal” from the Clapotis pattern creator Kate Gilbert, whose blog happens to be named “needles on fire.” I was inspired to name my post ‘my needles are on fire” because of the picture my husband took of me. The combination of the red tones in the picture and the bluriness of the hands evoke fire, to me. It is coincidental that that the name of this post has the same name as Kate’s blog. Well, there might have beem something in my subconscious that put that title in my mind. However, it is rather fitting. Clapotis is a fantastic pattern and Kate deserves an homage.
I guess I am a little paranoid after reading a certain blog post today, if you know what I mean….
2 comments December 9th, 2004