Knits

I didn’t exactly hit “mark all posts as read” since I am a bit too nosy and didn’t want to feel out of the loop. Instead I scanned posts and looked at pictures to see what everyone’s been working on. Of course I found a number of things that I went “oooooooh I want that” so they are now favorited in Ravelry.

It is moving into Sunday evening and I have been exceedingly lazy this weekend. I know that’s what weekends are for, but the weather has been nice enough (albeit windy) that I should have got out of the house and into nature. There’s always tomorrow (although considering the recent events in my life, I can’t really say this now as it doesn’t sit well).

 

So that’s Cascade Pastaza Paints in the fetching name of 9824. I bought it the day after my sister died to make something in her memory. She always loved greens, more the lime and grassy greens, but if something came in a five shades and one was green, she’d pick the green one. I have to say I’m the same way. It reminds me of Lion & Lamb minus that fishy smell since it has no silk.

 

I certainly didn’t need either of these sock yarns. The one on the left is Lucy Neatby Celestial Sock Merino in Honey Pot (mine looks totally different to the knitted/wound example). It is the colour of the grape vines in the autumn — purples, golds, yellows — gorgeous. I kept picking it up and putting it down and finally said “F it, I don’t need, but it’s beautiful and today is about me” because it was. It was a hard day exactly one week after Kristal died and I was getting my hair cut, buying some clothes, doing the things I normally did when I’d go home for a visit, but I was also taking in some donations to the breast care centre and seeing friends who knew my sister and felt her loss too.

The other is Misti Alpaca Handpainted Sock Yarn (Ravelry link as it’s not on the Misti site yet) in another clever name… 04. It’s a blend of alpaca, merino, silk, and nylon. This is completely out of normal choice of yarns in terms of colour, but something about it just appealed to me. I think I might actually be knitting a plain pair of socks to let the yarn shine. I bought this the same day as the Cascade above. We (me and my mom) needed an escape from the weirdness of going to the Crematorium to sign the papers so we went for some food in the north end of Santa Cruz which of course was next to the yarn store — The Swift Stitch.

 

The rest of the stash enhancement really is dead boring. I got two skeins of Euroflax Linen in Grape and Willow. And then, amazingly, I managed to buy two skeins of Hemp for Knitting AllHemp6 in nearly identical shades as the Tahki Cotton I bought last year. Hmmm I thought it seemed a familiar combination… Green and Blue. Oh well.

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