Knitting Indulgences
Apr. 16th, 2006 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haggisSo far I've knitted sensible things (scarves, a jumper and two baby blanket) in sensible materials. I've stroked the pretty yarns in the shop but not really used them yet.
However, I've got a plan to make a friend a cushion which I'm using as an opportunity to indulge myself with some extra special yarns to make it a really soft, huggable cushion for her. (Said friend is having a crappy time of it at the moment and has mentioned that soft fluffy things help when she's having a bad patch.) I've got a beautiful soft wool; a intricate looking boucle, a very fluffy chenille, some beautiful eyelash wool and some just gorgeous silky, shiny stuff that I had left over from another project. I am really excited about this as I haven't ever has a chance to use such lovely yarns before. A lot of the pleasure of this pattern is going to be just feeling the beautiful yarns. I hope the colours work as well together as they do in my mind.
Socks are going slowly but surely. I've reduced the number of stitches so it's smaller and should fit better. Unintentionally, I seem to have hit a sock diameter exactly half the length of the colour repeat as I am getting neat stripes of navy and purple in the sock.
However, given that I have to knit another sock exactly the same, I suspect I may be experimenting more for the next pair...
However, I've got a plan to make a friend a cushion which I'm using as an opportunity to indulge myself with some extra special yarns to make it a really soft, huggable cushion for her. (Said friend is having a crappy time of it at the moment and has mentioned that soft fluffy things help when she's having a bad patch.) I've got a beautiful soft wool; a intricate looking boucle, a very fluffy chenille, some beautiful eyelash wool and some just gorgeous silky, shiny stuff that I had left over from another project. I am really excited about this as I haven't ever has a chance to use such lovely yarns before. A lot of the pleasure of this pattern is going to be just feeling the beautiful yarns. I hope the colours work as well together as they do in my mind.
Socks are going slowly but surely. I've reduced the number of stitches so it's smaller and should fit better. Unintentionally, I seem to have hit a sock diameter exactly half the length of the colour repeat as I am getting neat stripes of navy and purple in the sock.
However, given that I have to knit another sock exactly the same, I suspect I may be experimenting more for the next pair...
