I thought a nice contrast to the lace would be some aran, so I cast on Velvet Morning, which I'd planned to knit after acquiring 9 balls of Araucania Toconao in a sale from Norfolk Yarn whilst on holiday in Norwich a couple of years ago. I then acquired three more balls in contrast colours in an online sale from Stash Yarns later on.
This is lovely squishy yarn to knit with and feels wonderful. I got gauge and happily knitted away, until I checked gauge again on the Fair Isle section and realised I was way off. So, having got this far, I had to go back and start again.
Although it turns out the variegated colour works better on 5mm needles as the pooling's been eliminated. I'm really enjoying knitting this, and using the two handed Fair Isle technique I learnt on a workshop at Get Knitted in Bristol back in 2009. I can still remember how to knit continental!
Whilst the Fair Isle is OK for TV knitting, it really wasn't suitable for taking to a conference (too many colours, too many balls to consider alongside taking notes, and lots of aran not a great idea for on the train), so obviously I needed to start another project. This one needed to be small and portable, so I went back through my queue and chose Froot Loop, some socks that I've been wanting to do for a while. I got my 4 ply boxes out and chose some stash (funny how that's easier with the actual yarn out, rather than going through my stash catalogue). I matched it with some cheap n' cheerful Woolcraft Superwash Sock Yarn (they must have spent ages thinking up that name), purchased at the Knitting Box in Barton-upon-Humber. Actually, I'm rather pleased with the yarn, as it's nice to knit with and the colours are great.
5 comments:
I love how you justify starting each new project. It all sounds very logical to me. I understand about needing space. I can't crochet if other people are disturbing me.
You seem to have plenty on tgr go, whilst I've cleared all my WIPs in anticipation of buying new stuff at the Knitting Show in Olympia - sadly no inspiration for new projects materialised :-/
I love the colours of the socks!
I considered knitting the Aeolian shawl, too! But I wanted to make the best use of my leftover laceweight, so am knitting the Birch Leaf Shawl, which allows me to knit until I run out of yarn. :)
The Velvet Morning sweater looks beautiful. I love the colors you chose and can't wait to see more progress on it. I've never done any color knitting, but I do knit continental! I've tried knitting English and WOW, it's so hard!
I considered knitting the Aeolian, but wanted to use as much of my leftover laceweight as possible. So I settled on the Birch Leaf Shawl, instead. I would still like to knit an Aeolian eventually. :)
Velvet Morning looks really pretty, and I love the colors you chose! Can't wait to see your progress on it. :)
Hurray for star titis and the fair isle looks great.
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