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May 23, 2004

Busy, busy, busy

I have actually done a fair amount of kni kni lately (according to my two year old). He is so funny. He will see that I am knitting and say MOM, you kni kni?!! Very much an accusation. I will then say "yep" and he always answers very cheerfully, "OH!" and wanders away.

So despite the fact that I have completely redone my older son's room and am halfway through my middle son's room (not to mention in the past two days, the baseball game, two barbeques and two separate rowdy games of dominoes), I have cast on two new WIPs.

The first one is a cotton tank that is not exactly my style of colors, so I am not entirely sure what will happen to it. I got the yarn (100% mercerized cotton) last year to make a tank for a friend. I am calling it cotton candy. I started to make a Berocco pattern - Abby, but the wild color pattern seems inappropriate for it. I think I will do the neck as a boat-neck with short sleeves instead.

The second project is actually almost finished and should be complete up to the drying point by today. Don't tell my sister but it is her booga bag. I ordered the Noro in the color that is on the booga website - #95 because Kim said she wanted cheerful sherbert colors. I think she will be happy but I wish it didn't have as much dark green in it. If I was braver, I would have deleted the dark greens but I was afraid I wouldn't have enough to complete the project.

The third project (make it stop NOW) is actually an UN-knitting WIP. Yep, you read that right. I found a link via a non-knitting friend detailing how to recycle a sweater. I immediately began looking for a sweater to try it on but found that my old, no-good sweaters are false seams (damn them all to hell and back). Just by chance, (okay, that's a lie, I browse for entertainment quite often), I was in the Navy store and saw this fingering weight, chenille sweater on the clearance rack. While not technically ugly, it is not something I would EVER wear. And it has true seams. Woo Hoo, off to the frog pond you go little feller. I will post my journey to recycled yarn later.

EDITED TO ADD:
Okay, all finished ripping out the sweater. I had thought that the el cheapo sweater's design was printed on. Oh nooooooo. Chenille intarsia AHAHAHHHHAHHHHHH run away, run away! And the darker of the two yarns in each design was at least several feet longer so it made for extremely uneven unravelling. I am very happy with the result though. I wound the two strands together (and will knit them together). The green/cream looks to be about 600 yards (wild guess), the blue/white is probably about 300 yards and the pink is about 100. The dark reddish pink trim is probably another 50-75 yards. I am thinking that I will knit that as trim for the pink. The green ball you see is the extra length from the uneven unravelling. I doubt it is more than 25 yards and I am not entirely sure why I bothered with it. Did I mention how dusty yanking out chenille is? Sneeze baby sneeze. Oh and one thing that woman that made the website for ripping out sweaters didn't really touch on, frogging is freaking messy. No wonder she did it outside.

I almost forgot - I bought this huge wicker trunk for a mere $20 the other day to hold half my stash.

Posted by DebC at May 23, 2004 10:04 AM

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