Monday, Monday!
Here is a pic to brighten up your Monday!
It was a Heath Ledger weekend for me, which meant not a ton of knitting. I’m only 3 inches in on Dimple 2, but it’s progress and it is a quick knit so I’m aiming for another FO Friday this week…
Okay, back to this brightly colored photo. I gathered some fun colored Cascade 220 to add to my stash before Christmas in order to make some fun and fanciful accessories to go with my new parka that arrived just before the holidays. It’s been rather mild since our cold snap in early December that prompted me to get off my duff and place the order for the coat, though I have been wearing it with my handspun earflap hat and some polar fleece rust colored mittens at night. I am somewhat fortunate I haven’t had to make day time appearances with such wrongly colored mitterns, LOL!
I procured some of this from Woolen Treasures and some from Bo Peep’s Wool Shop end of year sale. Actually, the bright blue/green and the brightest pink were from Bo Peep’s and ended up being much more bright than I was going for. Though such is the risk when ordering via on-line color cards. That means I have more of it than I think I’ll need. I think they’ll make great accents, but they likely won’t make up the majority of any of the accessories.
Also purchased when I bought the other colors at Woolen Treasures was 45 Fine and Fanciful Hats to Knit by Anna Zilboorg. I am thinking of doing a brightly colored tam. In fact, I was planning the same one as Theresa made in November, but decided I didn’t have quite enough value contrast to pull it off. Then, I designed my own, but it will need tweaking as I forgot that the last 5-6 rounds of the straight section actually appear on the top of the tam. I love the book. I’m not positive that I’ll necessarily knit any of the patterns directly, but it is full of inspiration and insight via the charts. I also enjoy how the charts use symbols rather than color coding - it makes it much easier to make the patterns your own via your color choices.
I think the heathered blue/green may become a Wavy. And, I keep waffling between thrummed mittens and colorwork mittens. Of course, I’m sure I have enough yarn to do both which will probably be what eventually happens. Then left overs will likely become some sort of felted bag/purse as well. There is nothing like adding some wonderfully bright colors to a cold and sometimes dreary season! I’m open to pattern suggestions though, so leave me links to your favorite scarf, mitten, and hat patterns that call for worsted weight yarn and would look good in these bright colors.
Don’t worry, I haven’t broke my resolution for this month and cast on for anything. This is all just planning and thinking! I have Dimple and my second Mitten from Halland to finish first!
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