03.13.07

Knitting With Disaster

Posted in Knitting at 8:45 am by Lynette

Have you visited the web store yet?  This is the new item listed this past week.  Socks in every size in the Forget-Me-Not colorway.   

Here is a picture of my Forget-Me-Not flowers.

I’m flurting with disaster these days.  I purchased a 1 lb cone of Colombia Wool with the thought of making socks on my LeGeare circular sock machine.  You see I am vending at the Shaniko Wool Gathering in September and thought it would be a nice touch to actually have some socks made from the authentic wool that was sheared from the sheep bred for that area.  But when I received  it I find it’s very loosley spun and pulls apart easily.  So I’ve scrapped that idea and have gone on to knitting a simple vest using two strands.  After it’s completed I will wash the heck out of it to get it to full/felt a bit.

How am I knitting with disaster?  I am not following a pattern and I’ve blindly cast on 150 stitches knitting on my size 6 needles.  I don’t even know if this will go around my middle (which is 51 years old!).  So today I’m actually going to measure it and see.  Worst case senario, I will have a nice jade plant cozy!  If you’re not 51 you probably don’t understand the sweaty palm fear that a tape measure can cause.  This may require some yoga before I actually pull out the measuring tape.

Ok, Ok, I went ahead and measured and it is about 2″ short of my middle.  That is good because I was going to knit a separate cable edging to go along the fronts and this will work out great!  Sometimes I even amaze myself.

Here is what it currently looks like.  Yes, it is a nice gray but I am also flurting with the idea of dying the completed vest a nice navy or perhaps a light brown.  There are some purists out there that think the wool needs to stay in it’s natural form, gray in this case.  But I don’t really like gray and I don’t think I look good in it.  My complexion is, to quote my dear husband, the color of boiled chicken.  My argument that pale skin in the 1900’s was a sign of wealth goes over his head.  In any event, I’ll decide upon the dye job when the vest is complete.   I’m leaning toward Navy.

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