Kiss My Knits!

Or unfinished objects, for those non-knitters.

Yarn! At left is 350 yards of hand-dyed goodness from Yarns Forever in Greenville, SC. She sells her stuff online at Creatively Dyed Yarn. I didn’t realize when I bought it that it was self-striping, but I’m actually pleased to know that. I’m anxious to see how this will knit up.

After realizing the other day that I only had the mittens at right, this will likely become gloves for me. The mittens are in a single fromSerendipity in South America. It’s absolutely butter soft, but pills like crazy. The same mittens, one year on and they weren’t worn that much over the year.

Made some progress on the second Crusoe sock. I’ve turned the heel and am working on the gusset. It reminds me of a mouth ready to gobble something up. A bit creepy, really. I’m enjoying these, but my next pair will definitely be out of something less explosively bright.


I had a hank of Lamb’s Pride Burly Spun in Strawberry Patch, so I decided to cast on for an offering for the Red Scarf project, run by the Orphan Foundation of America. LJ buddy has been championing this cause.

This is a batch of scarves sent out in January to kids in college who have aged out of the foster care system. These kids have beaten nearly insurmountable obstacles to actually make it to college, and just having a little care package to say “someone out there is thinking of you, keep it up!” can make a big difference. I’m doing a chunky scarf which would work for a guy or a gal. It’s in brioche stitch, which is a good choice to prevent pooling in a space-dyed yarn like this. I’m a bit worried that it’s too thick and will be too rigid to flop nicely around the neck, so I’m trying to decide whether to go up to size 15 needles instead of the 13s I’m using. It looks like there’ll be plenty left over, so maybe I’ll pair the remainder up with some black I’ve got left over from this hat for another bulky project.


Time to do another load of laundry, then off to the great outdoors. Sorry, Midwest, but it’s 69 degrees and absolutely gorgeous out, and I’m taking my daughter somewhere to play if it kills us both. It’s just too beautiful a day to spend in front of the computer!