Mossy Cottage Knits

OMGosh, that is a fabulous scarf.. so much so that I am just a teensey bit sorry you ahve to give it away. I mean... sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta.. but WOWEE.. tis fabulous.

and a moment of silence for the tossed yarn please.....(pause)

Here's hoping that everyone in the Dulaan Brigade follows your exemplary lead of knitting something so awesome that you want to keep it, but instead are willing to make sure it goes to someone who truly needs it. You are a treasure, Ryan. As always, thanks for the inspiration. Mary B

PS What was the "cardboard sweater" knit from?

LOVE the scarf!!! Did the rat have big ears? Was it a cute little woodland creature? That is how a rat that Gino caught was described to me....by Janet. :)

I think you should celebrate your achievements with Dulaan by buying more balls of Cascade, making a scarf like that for yourself as a reward, and then using the remaining Cascade (again) to knit things for cold Mongolians.

I'm with Carrie.

But about the rat, I'm impressed with your rat-handling skills. I would have left the little sucker there, while TB probably would have conspired to burn the birdhouse down...kudos to you :D

Now, see, Carrie, you're talking about a vicious circle here. I am trying to EMPTY my Cascade 220 bag, and you are thinking of insidious ways to fill the bag back up again!! ;-)

MaryB, the yarn was RedHeart crapyarn. Not that I am all that against acrylics or even some kinds of Red Heart for that matter, but this stuff was awful, a really unattractive brownish-pinkish color and really stiff and unyielding. But I had been given it for free, and thought I could just quickly churn something out of it that I could send off to MongoLEEa, but I was wrong. That yarn just needed to die.

Courtney, the truth be told, the rat really was cute. It had made a nest of old leaves in the bird house and was asleep in there, all curled up and cozy. We pulled out the nest (from very far away and, again, using the business end of the rake) and were startled to find the rat in there because we had expected either (a) nothing or (b) a bird, not (c) a rat. Even though its bed had suddenly been pulled out from underneath it, the rat was determined not to leave--but we prevailed in the end. (Let the record show that TMK keeps a VERY clean house and a VERY clean yard. Rats have been a problem everywhere this year.)

Oh, my, gawddddddddddd, that scarf is to die for. *starts looking for her Cascade 220 scraps....* (however, my collection is not NEARLY as wide-ranging as yours, especially colorwise!)

You know me and my opinion of acrylics...Why am I not surprised it was Red heart...it can ALL die as far as I'm concerned...Mary B PS with apologies to any Red heart affianados on the blog...

Norma, I added one more stripe (dark purple) on to what you see and, except for the black accent color, I didn't repeat any of the colors! I'm now going back down the other side "backwards"--terra cotta, teal, gold, and so on back down to yellow.

Of course, if I had been a little more patient, I would have taken the time to plan my colors a bit so the dark colors didn't all pool in the middle of the scarf and the pastels didn't all pool at the 1/3 (and now, 2/3) points, but the whole point of the project was just to pick up yarn and start knitting. It was so much fun to knit. And fast!

Where was Frankie? Corgis are great ratters and mousers Of course there's always the bad breath afterward but my girls have been catching mice all summer, we've had it bad with them this year.

Great scarf!

AnnaMarie

AnnaMarie:
Frankie was safely tucked away in the house where she couldn't actually catch the rat. Ryan won't let me kill a bug (she catches bugs and puts them outside), so there was no way Frankie was going to be allowed a chance to catch the rat. We usually let her chase squirrels but we make a lot of noise and give the squirrel a head start. She was appropriately annoyed when she figured out what we had been up to.

TMK

I'm gonna have to do me one of those scarves. Even maybe mixing up textures and weights of yarn. I'm curbing my enthusiasm in only one regard, though: all those ends to weave in. Ergh. Lemme know how that's workin' for ya. (How many bad TV puns can I get in one comment?)

On another point. The upcoming weekend is the weekend I WAS expecting to meet you and TMK in person. I wouldn't take away your trip to "the little crack in the earth" but I wish you were coming. Big time.

That scarf looks brilliant. I love the way the black rows make the other colours come alive. Must try that!

Norma, the weaving in of the ends ultimately served a useful purpose. Whenever my hands needed a break, I just wove in a few ends instead and it all worked out very satisfyingly.

Kathleen, glad you like the scarf! It curled a lot initially but I just blocked it with steam and an iron and it very obediently lay flat!

And am I mistaken or were those TWO guinea pig brides? Prooving once again that rodents are more mentally advanced than our government.

The stash-busting scarf is also breath-busting - it's GAWGISSS!

My local AC Moore had some discontinued colors of Paton's Classic Merino (a taupe and a grey) for half price - so $2.50 a ball. I bought out my store (I panicked and bought something like 25 balls. Sales do that to me) with intentions of using it for Dulaan hats, but your readers might want to check their own local stores!