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stitchy_stitchy) wrote2010-02-08 01:10 pm
stitchy_stitchy) wrote2010-02-08 01:10 pm
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Super Bowl Sunday
Had a nice, if brief, shopping trip at the LYS. Ended up buying a skein of Cascade Heritage in Tardis Blue (not the official colorway name, but it's what I'm going do with it), a skein of Opal Handpaint in a blue-with-orange-dabs colorway that translates to "Fountains" or "Water games" (and if I've got money left on Friday I might have to go back and pick up the purple one. Argh. I was trying to buy less sock yarn this year, not more...). I won a "Be Sweet" shawl kit that I need to go pick up...looking on the Internet this is a laceweight mohair rectangle knitted on the bias. I hope it's in a colorway I like - I suppose I can trade it if it's not!
Finally swapped yarn withsarbah77 - I traded a skein of teal Skacel Merino Lace for the purple Silky Alpaca Lace I intend to use for my Ravelympics shawl. I made a swatch for that - I don't think it's going to come out as big as I'd intended, but that might not be a bad thing all-in-all if I'm just after an over-the-shoulders thing. She didn't have the same dye lot as the one I had previously, but Hubby and Daughter both had a hard time identifying which ball was different, so I'm guessing it'll be okay if I have to break into it. I also made a spreadsheet indicating how much I'd have to crochet every day to end up with a shawl 32" on a side (the construction amounts to 2/3 of a hexagon) in 16 days, assuming an equal area crocheted every day. Geeky, thy name is stitchy_stitchy.
I took my January mystery sock with me to Hubby's family's football season championship game watching party, but left it in the car. This turned out to be a good idea. First of all, the game was pretty good. Second of all, I'd forgotten how many smokers there are in Hubby's mom's family...when I got home, everything I'd worn (down to my bra!), or even had in the room, smelled of smoke. The last thing I want is my knitting bag smelling like an ashtray. On the downside, it means I've got a lot of sock to knit this week. Wish me luck.
Finally swapped yarn with
sarbah77 - I traded a skein of teal Skacel Merino Lace for the purple Silky Alpaca Lace I intend to use for my Ravelympics shawl. I made a swatch for that - I don't think it's going to come out as big as I'd intended, but that might not be a bad thing all-in-all if I'm just after an over-the-shoulders thing. She didn't have the same dye lot as the one I had previously, but Hubby and Daughter both had a hard time identifying which ball was different, so I'm guessing it'll be okay if I have to break into it. I also made a spreadsheet indicating how much I'd have to crochet every day to end up with a shawl 32" on a side (the construction amounts to 2/3 of a hexagon) in 16 days, assuming an equal area crocheted every day. Geeky, thy name is stitchy_stitchy.I took my January mystery sock with me to Hubby's family's football season championship game watching party, but left it in the car. This turned out to be a good idea. First of all, the game was pretty good. Second of all, I'd forgotten how many smokers there are in Hubby's mom's family...when I got home, everything I'd worn (down to my bra!), or even had in the room, smelled of smoke. The last thing I want is my knitting bag smelling like an ashtray. On the downside, it means I've got a lot of sock to knit this week. Wish me luck.