Hi there! How're you doing on this hump day?
Thank you for your comments on the chameleon colors. It's so refreshing to work with these colors. It's also exciting to have an excuse to hook a ripple.
Have any of you been following WEBS on FB and their 31 Days of Organizing? One blog I read is and I'm having a brain fart right now as I can't remember who - sorry. While I'm not on that bandwagon, I have been working on inventorying my yarn stash. Some time ago I kind of inventoried it but was lazy and schlepped all the colors of a type of yarn together. So yesterday I spent about two hours taking photos of my yarn of each colorway/brand type. Today, I worked on my Ravelry stash page. I'm about done but there is yarn that I've bought that have yet to be filed into my stash.
And now for...
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So guess what I'm working with:
Yup, you've guess right. Rowan's Kidsilk Haze.
I knitted with this furry thread when I was a beginning knitter. Mind you how naive I was when I had bought it. I had spotted it while waiting to pay for my yarn and was all oohing and ahing over it while petting it. Very adventurous I was but oh boy, somewhat stupid. It was so frustrating. I wanted to burn this yarn back in 2009! But amazingly, I was able to finish that lacy cowl pattern for our mortgage broker who loves it and makes great use of it.
I've seen on Ravelry time to time simple st patterns used with yarn like this. A lightbulb went on. Since I have a resolution to try to knit from my stash, I pulled this out last week and started a K1, P1 cowl:
I'm about 10" in so far as last Friday's jury duty enabled me to work on this.
BTW, this is actually a gift for someone who reads this blog.
So what's the craziest yarn you've crafted with?
To get inspiration for your next CO, head over to Tami's.
Kildsilk haze is the craziest yarn I knitted with. A nightmare if you have made a mistake. I never finished one project just in kidsilk yarn!
ReplyDeleteI really sound organize my stash, it's a wreck, but I seem to have lost my 'cleaning out' mojo.
ReplyDeleteYou really are amazing to have used that yarn to begin knitting! It is a great looking yarn, but I think I would have to go very slow with it, and sit in good light!
Happy Wednesday
Love the cowl the colour is just gorgeous and it looks like it could be a nightmare to knit with so way to go you on using it up. I've some yarn somewhere in the deep abyss of my yarn stash thats got ribbon running through it and I started something, not sure what as its so long ago and its never been completed, perhaps its time it came out and got used up!
ReplyDeleteI've never tried Kidsilk Haze, although I've oohed and aahed over it a few times on Ravelry. An ambitious choice for a beginning knitter; I'm not surprised you put it away for a while.
ReplyDeleteSilk Mawatas are my craziest fiber choice. It was fun and interesting, but I don't think I'll do that again :)
It's really lovely! I have some KSH stripe which I want to make into a cowl, but I couldn't start another thing like that with Nuvem on the sticks - might have to think about it again now that I finished Nuvem.
ReplyDeleteI would love to get more organised but I don't have anywhere to put my stash other than the huge bag it's in behind my chair. I need a nice new shelving unit in my Cwtch but it's a fairly low priority at the moment.
Enjoy the rest of your week xxx
You got to knit on jury duty? I didn't get to take any knitting OR crochet when I did mine :-(
ReplyDeleteThis will be a lovely gift!
Beautiful yarn, I love the colour, grey is one of my favorite colours of the moment. Deb x
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it qualifies as "crazy" but the yarn I had the most difficulty with was Lion Brand Homespun. It was a color I loved (and still love), it was soft and inviting...and then I started trying to knit with it as a beginning knitter many moons ago (I think I picked it up initially in 2004, started working on it, put it down because I hated it, tried again in 2006, did the same thing...). I think when I officially became a Knitter again in 2008, I tried again and decided it sucked, frogged it, and gave the yarn to charity.
ReplyDeleteCould I work with it now? Yeah but I wouldn't want to :)
The cowl looks great! I have never been a huge Kidsilk Haze fan. It makes my nose itch just to look at it. Crazy right?
ReplyDeleteThe craziest thing I've knit with? Well, I did a KAL to knit hats for kids at the Children's Hospital in Boston. The hats were to be knit with fun fur to make "hairy" hats. One of mine was black and yellow striped to look like a bee! It was murder to knit but so cute when done.
That is beautiful, especially with this yarn! I can't really work with thin stuff, it frustrates me!!
ReplyDeleteUgh. I should get on board with organizing my stash(es), but I just don't have the will to do it.
ReplyDeleteThe cowl is going to be beautiful and very luxurious!
The kidsilk is making a gorgeous fabric! And I love the color too
ReplyDeleteOoh, I've not knit with kidsilk haze yet but I do have a whole bunch of kidsilk haze trio in my stash and can't wait to cast on!!
ReplyDeleteOh you have done a magnificent job of capturing the texture of that yarn, I've been dying to knit with it for ages, you have made it more difficult to resist! Isn't that series from the Webs blog fabulous?
ReplyDeleteI love to knit and croche! Your blog is so aspiring! It's nice I know that someone else shares a love for the "art of yarn"!!!
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