Wooly Thoughts

 I've come out of Triangleville and into Crescent Hill. 😀

I saw a lovely scarf/shawl on Youtube and vaguely remembered  how I had made my previous crescent shaped shawl and jumped in on the deep end. I was planning to use all scrap yarn and make a multi-striped shawl, but just loved the combo of hand dyed reds and hand dyed greens and kept going, until I ran out of the green and had to dye a new skein. No biggie. This is sock yarn in high twist merino which is super nice to knit, and I used a US 2 needle. 

I am adamant that these are not Christmas colors. Ha! 

The diagonal lines continue throughout the scarf and the tied ends are so tapered and narrow as to not make a big globby knot. (unless I want a big globby knot).

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So this morning, I fell down a rabbit hole with a yarn sale from one of my fave Danish online yarn stores. I spent a couple of hours putting juicy colors into my shopping cart and then at checkout I saw the tariff and asked myself if the sale savings overcame the tariff cost?

I stepped away...

And then I thought I ought to look at my recently dyed yarns en masse to see exactly what I had and maybe assuage the need to more to add to my tower of yarn.

O my. My O My!

 Mind you, this is not all, but it is most of my hand dyes. I have on order another set of ten (to dye) in my new fave base Yamhill merino-nylon fingering and it will be difficult to decide what I need to augment what is already in stash.

 It might be more multis to add to this four.  My new Caydo electric yarn winder is arriving today (they say) and that will get these hanks into usuable yarn cakes.  OK. I am set. No more new yarn. 

Skinny 90° Triangle Scarf

 Skinny scarves are all the rage in the insulated knitting world. I doubt the rest of the world has any knowledge of this fashion. As I am stuck on triangles for the moment. I had to do another one. I steam blocked it and will weave in the few loose ends in a minute. 

 This color is not accurate. It is darker by far, altho the pink is practically neon. 

 I used my hand dyed forest green fingering and  Mille Colori Baby, which is superwash merino, which means I can make socks out of it. Yay!

This may be a tryout for a larger scarf with a bigger gauge, one that would keep my back and shoulders covered, but worth the trial.

Now, if I had a long lean neck with only one chin, I might wear this wrapped and tied. Cute enough.
Did I mention I knit this on size 1 needles? Teeny tiny. O my.

 

More triangles

  

 I am having a triangle moment. This scarf combines slip stitches with nubs and stockinette and is made with merino sock yarns, many of which are my hand dyed. It was knit while watching the run up to the mid-term elections and was finished the glorious morning after. Needless to say, I was doing the happy dance. 

 I've also dyed up a new yarn called Yamhill which is a plumper fingering, merino/nylon blend at a wonderful price from Wool2dye4.com. It comes in 115 gram hanks which works out to 439 yards. 

 The speckled yarn in the middle was a mini triumph. I am very happy with it. Also I discovered something with that red/black hank. When it was being washed out it continually bled out and it never stopped. So...I put it in a new bath with more citric acid, microwaved it again and then washed it out. No BLEEDING. It just needed a boost of the acid. Yay! I can use it without fear that it will stain other colors. Phew! 

New Work and new laptop

My wonderful BIL John gave me his old HP laptop which he nicely had wiped clean of his stuff, and it is just fantastic! Better than any of the cheapo ones in my computer past. Yay!! It does everything I want and more, which I have not yet figured out. I am back in bidness! 

OK new work. A second Pointless Scarf in light blue to match my light blue pullover which coordinated with nothing in my whole wardrobe... until I saw that my Fuss Free Cowl from last year had a lot of light blue yarn in it. Yay!

Then I looked at my collection of scrap yarn and thought: it is time for a scrappy project.

 This was mega fun to knit and barely made a dent in my scrap collection. It is 50" by 8" and cozy and soft. After finishing the scarf I added an I-cord edge, which ripples, darn. O well, it will be tucked in my coat, so who cares?

And then I thought, here it is Socktober and I haven't knit even one pair of socks! Fear not, I have new sock which I dyed yesterday and it is drying right now.

I ordered new yarn which is fingering but on the plumper side, which will make super cozy socks, and new dye Purple Pop which is really purple. Sigh, so happy. That pink was another attempt at speckle dyeing and while it fell flat and is not speckled, it will still be usuable as variegated. The greens were toned down as ALL my previous greens are screaming green, which I do love, but don't blend as well with some of my commercial yarns. And I needed yellow/orange, also not screaming. 

So glad it is cooler now and autumnal. On to sock knitting!

    

A bunch of FOs

  I've avoided posting because my laptop is slower than a snail in molasses.  This little scarf was inspired by a Youtube video podcast from It is a Sarah.   I saw the scarf that she had knit in separate triangles and I had to make one of my own, contiguously, meaning picking up from the previous triangle to knit the next one. I emailed her pictures of mine (which took only a day and a half to knit) and she featured it in her podcast the next week. Didn't mention my name but you can't have everything.

Next we have the Truffle Shawl variation #6, this time in fingering weight which I really love.  The purples are my hand dyed yarns and so is the lighter aqua.

I recently purchased some lovely pullovers (Walmart!!!) and dyed the yarn to match for shawls. I have another pullover in purple with which this shawl works perfectly. (never end a sentence with a preposition.)

So I thought I might as well make another one for my red pullover. This is Truffle Shawl Variation #7.

 My sister Brooke suggested the I-cord tie, genius!