Scarved


Well, since you asked...

Yes, I do realize that I really have no right to call myself Lisa the Knitter, given that (a) I haven't finished a project in a million years, and (b) I don't really blog much about knitting. I wonder if any of these catty dweebs have noticed and reamed my ass for it.

But anyhoo, I really have been knitting. India was pretty much too hot / humid / dirty to knit, except for the long flight out there and back, where I made one and a half socks, and Darjeeling. Darjeeling gets pretty chilly, not to mention foggy-pretty, so, shortly after my friends and i realized that we couldn't get on a train out and were stuck there for two weeks (this, by the way, is why I still haven't seen the thing I've wanted to see since I was 17 ), I hooked myself up with some green yarn and a set of Ponys, and started this:


Look familiar? Yeah, it's the same pattern as the scarf I started in Vienna and have yet to finish. At the time I scrawled the lace pattern into my little orange notebook, and thus it was the only pattern I had on me. Anyways, the green yarn is acrylic but it feels nice and reminds me of this:


and, besides that, the yarn and needles together cost 45 Rupees, which is just under a buck-fitty. Yeeeah.

Since I was in idiot mode all week and thus unable to work on any of the more complicated projects that I started a million years ago, I went back to my fiery red manos scarf. Now, however, it looks like this:



Yeah, it's a lame 1x1 rib rectangle, and it's kinda stiff because the needles I'm using are kinda too small. I stole this idea from my stylish friend Lisa, who knit a scarf like that while still learning to knit, with the only needles she had, and switching colors partway through just because (like me) she ran out of yarn way before the scarf was long enough. And it turned out freaking fabulous, so I copied the idea. I'm almost out of the red, so I'm going to do the second half that wicked sage green Lamb's Pride that's going to be leftover once I finish this .

My model there is Nalle, the Ikea Chastity Bear. He is called this because (as a friend of mine suggested) you're s'posed to clutch him while sharing the couch with a potential suitor...you know, so the young man keeps his hands to himself. Heh... I should have such problems.

Current song: Everloving by Moby

*Rebekah tells me that Ponys are actually made in India...cool, eh?

Posted: Sat - July 23, 2005 at 11:50 AM        

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