Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Monday, April 12, 2004
I'm feeling Pinkish
Pink seems to be following me around lately. All the pink yarn I see, I secretly covet it. When I've been window shopping for dream yarns, I wake up and look into my shopping cart and its all pink yarn. Since M is in love with pink, it wouldn't seem shocking, but the yarn was all for me. *gasp* I haven't worn pink in years. After going to the store and choosing all pink yarns, I realized that I needed help. I forced myself to put a couple of the pinks back and get some lime, mmmm, cool soothing blind your eyes lime. To thwart the pink yarn monster I decided to turn the blog pinkish. If I can work out my pink desires here maybe I can knit with other colors.
With all these blog changes and Holiday fun I didn't have much time for knitting It was actually a nice sunny weekend here. 
Click to see it large and in charge
I finished the front of the Urban Aran. Its all blocking. I still need to cast on for the sleeves. I'm going to do both at one time to try and speed things up. I really want to get this done. But not so much that I didn't do other things.
I did 4-5 more inches on M's sweater, did you notice that I didn't make her a pink one? I'm even hoarding all the pink yarn I already have. Do they have a 12 step pink intervention program?
That green blinding thing is a swatch for a tank top. I'm going to base it on the pattern in spring/summer FCEK 2004. I need to change it though. I want to knit it in the round, I don't want a cropped tank, and my gauge is vastly different from theirs. The only thing I will be using of their pattern is their top shaping. I'm really liking this yarn, Bernat Cotton Tots. It looks a bit funky in the ball so I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it but I do really like it. Its soft and the fabric look realy nice. I just wish it came in other colors that weren't so blinding.
The pinkish swatch is Bernat Satin, 100% acrylic for the tank top in Vogue spring/summer 2004. I like the feel of the fabric but the swatch I did is a little off gauge. If I went down a needle size I may be able to hit gauge but I'm not sure I want the fabric that tight.
I don't want to hear any comments about my tiny little swatches. Its amazing I swatched at all. Normally I head right into battle. I think my real reason for swatching is so I could play with my yarn. To me that may be the only true"good" reason to swatch.
While I'm working on these 2 sweaters and swatching for others I keep hearing this little voice to the left of me. "Hey, I thought the Husbeast sweater was next".
Yes, I'll admit to having knit related ADD. I replied that Husbeast just bought a new wool cabled sweater.
The voice quickly reminded me that I had said something like it was a good idea to go ahead and buy it because there is rarely a sweater in that giant size on sale that he likes and I wont get Husbeast sweater done for a while anyway.
hmmmm. The voice has a good memory.
Then what does the voice do?
It goes out and buys me flowers.
My guess is the next thing you see on needles will be that Husbeast sweater.