March 07, 2005
Needle points of pride
It's a silly little point of pride for me that I've yet to make a scarf. While it's the first project of many, and rightly so, I just didn't have it in me to start with a project so long. Instead I knitted a menagerie of small and unattractive animals that Small Bit adored for a while and that now reside in a bin aptly named people and animals.
From there I moved on to a large but still unattractive bag knitted on pink 15s and out of a huge skein of no-dye-lot redheart acrylic yarn and three old pairs of pants I ripped into strips and tied together. A kind of rag rug bag but without the durability or frankly, quaintness. All my friends were kind and used kind words as I proudly carried this monstrosity around. 'Tis a dark day in my knitting history, long as it is.
My next project was a joey-less marsupial bag from the first stitch and bitch book. Knowing nothing of yarn or of felting, again I used, you guess it -- red heart acrylic yarn. It did not felt. I was, however, quite impressed with the right-twist seams, learning to pick up stitches, and knit in the round. Very cool. I decided to make another for my mother, this time out of some lovely natural wool yarn from my new favorite place, my local yarn shop. I dyed the 2 skeins red and wine with kool aid and got started. It turned out lovely but unfortunately I've only pictures before the felting process and never remember to take them when I'm visiting the 'rents.
yes, back-dated again.
Posted by jacey at March 7, 2005 10:22 AM