The pink shawl, aka Pink, and I had a serious talk yesterday. Pink told me she was getting tired of all the tugging and grumbling she was getting from me. (Perhaps it was more polite than that, but what I wrote was the message I received.) I told her I just didn't quite understand what had happened to us. We seemed to be getting along so nicely up to the point where I started adding beads. Then all of a sudden things changed. The beads inconsistently sat wrong on the knit stitch. This had not been a problem with my mare Ashton. Many beads were fine, but several were twisted in an unattractive way and when I tried to fix the problem things really ran off the rails. Perhaps Pink doesn't like being interfered with by beads, so I asked directly about the change in her attitude. After that Pink stopped talking and silently we decided it was time to take a break. It seems it is for the best for now. The whole thing was a rather lopsided conversation anyway.
That was yesterday morning. On Friday I was out and about with Jami. She and I finally did get to the iFound Gallery on Main Street a place we had wanted to visit last spring. We spent what seemed like a quick couple of hours in this rather small store. Then we were off to Three Bags Full, a yarn shop on Main just a block or so away. I was looking for more lace weight yarn and Jami decided she wouldn't mind an Ashton shawl and another Bravo Big Colour cowl. (I had offered to make them if she'd like.) Jami purchased her yarn and I bought mine with all three yarns coming home with me.
So yesterday after Pink and I stopped talking (for the time being from my POV, but who knows what Pink has in mind) I picked up needles and the chunky yarn for the cowl. The cowl uses mega chunky yarn with 10 mm or size 15 needles. Pink is made with lace weight yarn and 3.25 mm or size 3 needles. As you can imagine the contrast was quite a shock for me. See for yourself.
The cowl stitches can be counted in the photos they are so B-I-G. The purple needle is gigantic compared to the tiny little needle used for Pink. The pencil in the middle is meant to give you an idea of scale. BTW there is about 1 hour of knitting showing for the cowl and approximately 10 or more hours for Pink and the fabric is about the same size.
And here's the final cowl done up with a scarf in a little over 2.5 hours:
It isn't quite the same as the first cowl and I'll have to see what Jami has to say about the change. If she doesn't like it I will happily take it apart and cast on fewer stitches to make a longer cowl that can be wrapped around the neck twice. It is Jami's yarn so I want her to be happy with the final results. Knitting for me is about the journey so if it needs to be deconstructed and redone, I remain happy because I get to continue to knit.
As for Pink, she seems to be noticing I can rather easily move on, so perhaps once I do one final set of tinking on her today, she and I will be able to continue. We'll see.
Oh, Mike let me know this week it was about time he was featured here again. While I was trying to photograph the dahlias he insisted in getting into every shot. So Mike, this one is for you and all your fans out there in the blogosphere. (He's approaching 16 years of age and still looking pretty good, don't you think?)
That was yesterday morning. On Friday I was out and about with Jami. She and I finally did get to the iFound Gallery on Main Street a place we had wanted to visit last spring. We spent what seemed like a quick couple of hours in this rather small store. Then we were off to Three Bags Full, a yarn shop on Main just a block or so away. I was looking for more lace weight yarn and Jami decided she wouldn't mind an Ashton shawl and another Bravo Big Colour cowl. (I had offered to make them if she'd like.) Jami purchased her yarn and I bought mine with all three yarns coming home with me.
So yesterday after Pink and I stopped talking (for the time being from my POV, but who knows what Pink has in mind) I picked up needles and the chunky yarn for the cowl. The cowl uses mega chunky yarn with 10 mm or size 15 needles. Pink is made with lace weight yarn and 3.25 mm or size 3 needles. As you can imagine the contrast was quite a shock for me. See for yourself.
The cowl stitches can be counted in the photos they are so B-I-G. The purple needle is gigantic compared to the tiny little needle used for Pink. The pencil in the middle is meant to give you an idea of scale. BTW there is about 1 hour of knitting showing for the cowl and approximately 10 or more hours for Pink and the fabric is about the same size.
And here's the final cowl done up with a scarf in a little over 2.5 hours:
It isn't quite the same as the first cowl and I'll have to see what Jami has to say about the change. If she doesn't like it I will happily take it apart and cast on fewer stitches to make a longer cowl that can be wrapped around the neck twice. It is Jami's yarn so I want her to be happy with the final results. Knitting for me is about the journey so if it needs to be deconstructed and redone, I remain happy because I get to continue to knit.
As for Pink, she seems to be noticing I can rather easily move on, so perhaps once I do one final set of tinking on her today, she and I will be able to continue. We'll see.
Oh, Mike let me know this week it was about time he was featured here again. While I was trying to photograph the dahlias he insisted in getting into every shot. So Mike, this one is for you and all your fans out there in the blogosphere. (He's approaching 16 years of age and still looking pretty good, don't you think?)
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| Mike more than happy to pose for a close-up. |
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