October 13, 2003
Kool, Not Kooky
How beautiful is this Huichol Indian yarn art? Or this piece? Or this?
And since this is a full-service blog, here are directions from DIY.com on how to make yarn art. (Although, according to this site, it is not truly Huichol yarn art unless it is created while "experiencing the Sacred Peyote" and I see no mention of peyote on diy.com's materials list. Hmmmmm.)
Knitting Knews
My fingers, elbow, wrist, and the tendons that connect Body Part A to Body Part B resent mightily the Arboretum Sock but I think we are on track to finish on time, thanks partly to a gray, rainy and blustery stay-inside Saturday followed, astonishingly enough, by a gray, rainy, and blustery stay-inside Sunday. And thanks also to K, who foresaw the gray, rainy, blahblahblah, and got us a passel of videos to watch.
I was also able to knit a little on the sock at the Highly Secret Project rendezvous but was mostly focused on working on the HSP and scarfing down pizza, Martinelli's, and cheesecake. Okay, in the honest order: Mostly focused on scarfing down pizza, Martinelli's, cheesecake and working on the HSP.
The gray, rainy, blahblahblah has me thinkin' about knitting some mittens next. Dear Readers, do you have any suggestions as to good on-line mitten patterns? I've started the cuff from this pattern but have had to up the needle size twice (which is unusual) and I find that the cuff is still strangulation-tight so I hae me doots about the pattern.
Dye Garden Dyegest
As promised, below is a picture of the swatch I knit from my first foray into variegated yarn. The pinky spots are all that was left of the hollyhock purple after the Ammonia That Ate Seattle was applied to the yarn. Feel free to laugh. Trust me, my feelings will not be hurt. Much.
(BTW, this colorway's name? "Hollymmonia" or maybe "Ammonihock!")
