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ysobelSo I have this thing where I'm making these (I am insane) for someone as soon as their yarn arrives.
I also cast off last night on a project that should have been finished several months ago. I have not yet woven in ends, or washed/blocked, and I am trying not to chicken out on giving it to the person I made it for, but nevertheless, there are no active knitting projects on my desk.
The logic part of my brain says: The yarn will be coming soon. Hold off on starting new things.
The knitter part of my brain says: to hell with logic, I want to START SOMETHING and maybe several somethings and GIMME.
(the knitter part of my brain is about five years old, I think.)
Possibility A: This hat and these mitts as a set.
Advantage: owls!
Disadvantage: ...owls. (The project I will be working on is owls, albeit colorwork ones rather than cabled ones.) Also, the easiestly-accessible worsted weight yarn I have accessible is sky blue, which somehow doesn't seem very owly. Also also, I would need to get eye buttons
Possibility B: This, aka loom-knit feather-and-fan stole.
(which reminds me, I have a knitting board somewhere that I should find and figure out how the hell to use)
Advantage: it's on loom, which is different mechanics than knitting and so will not cause me to wear out my knitting mojo.
Disadvantage: ...it's on loom. Also: Feather and fan is nice and simple when you're doing it with needles (for values of n that usually equal 3 or 4, *k2tog n times, yo k1 2n times, k2tog n times, repeat from *) but gets a bit trickier with a loom. Not much -- it just means that you have to set up the row before you get to it -- but the problem with that is, my brain suddenly went:
"Oh! I could make peg markers!"
Simple ones, of course -- jump ring, and a dangly bit with one or two beads -- so that I can set up the *loom* for indicating which pegs have how many wraps on the pattern row (a longer dangly for 2-loop pegs aka k2tog, a shorter dangly for 1-loop pegs aka k1, and no marker for 0-loop pegs aka yarnovers) and then not have to think or count.
Which sounds nice and simple until you realize that I would have to make 4n markers for each repetition of the pattern.
(and what annoys me is that the pattern I have uses n=3 with a three stitch border, which is all well and good until you realize that the largest loom I have is 41 pegs, where a three-repeat narrow shawl requires 42 pegs arghflargl)
Option C: This hat
Advantage: Fastish and fairly easy.
Disadvantage: Er, don't really have a suitable yarn handy -- my active stash tends towards fingering weight with a bit of worsted, and I don't think I have any super bulky.
Option D: I really want to do cross-stitch dammit argh asdgdsgfsdfgafdgadgsdgsdgsdg. ahem.
(No, that is not knitting. But I miss it. And it used to serve nicely as a crafty-thing-to-do-with-my-hands.)
ETA: The yarn came! Eeeeeeyay. /bounces with glee/ Pretty pretty pettables. So I do not need to dither about an interim project \o/
I also cast off last night on a project that should have been finished several months ago. I have not yet woven in ends, or washed/blocked, and I am trying not to chicken out on giving it to the person I made it for, but nevertheless, there are no active knitting projects on my desk.
The logic part of my brain says: The yarn will be coming soon. Hold off on starting new things.
The knitter part of my brain says: to hell with logic, I want to START SOMETHING and maybe several somethings and GIMME.
(the knitter part of my brain is about five years old, I think.)
Possibility A: This hat and these mitts as a set.
Advantage: owls!
Disadvantage: ...owls. (The project I will be working on is owls, albeit colorwork ones rather than cabled ones.) Also, the easiestly-accessible worsted weight yarn I have accessible is sky blue, which somehow doesn't seem very owly. Also also, I would need to get eye buttons
Possibility B: This, aka loom-knit feather-and-fan stole.
(which reminds me, I have a knitting board somewhere that I should find and figure out how the hell to use)
Advantage: it's on loom, which is different mechanics than knitting and so will not cause me to wear out my knitting mojo.
Disadvantage: ...it's on loom. Also: Feather and fan is nice and simple when you're doing it with needles (for values of n that usually equal 3 or 4, *k2tog n times, yo k1 2n times, k2tog n times, repeat from *) but gets a bit trickier with a loom. Not much -- it just means that you have to set up the row before you get to it -- but the problem with that is, my brain suddenly went:
"Oh! I could make peg markers!"
Simple ones, of course -- jump ring, and a dangly bit with one or two beads -- so that I can set up the *loom* for indicating which pegs have how many wraps on the pattern row (a longer dangly for 2-loop pegs aka k2tog, a shorter dangly for 1-loop pegs aka k1, and no marker for 0-loop pegs aka yarnovers) and then not have to think or count.
Which sounds nice and simple until you realize that I would have to make 4n markers for each repetition of the pattern.
(and what annoys me is that the pattern I have uses n=3 with a three stitch border, which is all well and good until you realize that the largest loom I have is 41 pegs, where a three-repeat narrow shawl requires 42 pegs arghflargl)
Option C: This hat
Advantage: Fastish and fairly easy.
Disadvantage: Er, don't really have a suitable yarn handy -- my active stash tends towards fingering weight with a bit of worsted, and I don't think I have any super bulky.
Option D: I really want to do cross-stitch dammit argh asdgdsgfsdfgafdgadgsdgsdgsdg. ahem.
(No, that is not knitting. But I miss it. And it used to serve nicely as a crafty-thing-to-do-with-my-hands.)
ETA: The yarn came! Eeeeeeyay. /bounces with glee/ Pretty pretty pettables. So I do not need to dither about an interim project \o/
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