So! How about a quick 'n dirty knitting update post instead of actual content? But before we get to that - a quick announcement.
Destination Yarn will be at the
Autumn Fiber Event in Ashland tomorrow! It's my first actual fiber show and I'm pretty excited/nervous about it.
I have lots of yarn and it sounds like it's going to be a great event so we'll just go with excited. Pretty charged that my company is taking this step, though. Hopefully there will be more fiber festivals in my future!
Anyways I'd love to show off some lovely finished projects but I have two things that I just can't seem to get off the needles.... First up is the
Ripple Hat:
I started this waaaay back when I went on a mini-vacation to
Geneva State Park. Which is of course unblogged because for some reason I can't get it together to blog anything about any trip ever. AHEM. Anyways because of the way the hat increases to form the ripples it's ALOT of stitches:
But pretty! The yarn I'm using is Frozen Great Lake. Which seemed appropriate as I was on vaca on the Great Lake. But now that it's fall these colors aren't appealing to me as much anymore so it has been sitting untouched in my knitting basket for awhile now.
Second up is my
Hitchiker.
Another project I started on an awesome and yet
unblogged vacation. I LOVE the way that this is turning out. The colorway Route 66 just sings in this pattern. However on second thought knitting another project that is basically miles of garter stitch after the
Color Affection was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad plan.
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| So. Much. Garter. Stitch. |
It is pretty, though.
But garter stitch. Ugh.
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| All knit no purl makes Jeanne a dull girl. All knit no purl makes Jeanne a dull girl. All knit no purl... |
So it's sitting untouched also. Which basically means I haven't been knitting. See I'm stuck in that place where the fun of fall is calling to me. I want to work on large projects out of deliciously wooly wool. Possibly even bulky weight. Maybe with some cables. But! I told myself I'd finish these summery knits first. So I'm just not knitting. Which sucks. I think I need to walk away from the simple sock yarn projects and start a really complicated sweater or something. Get my brain going again.
What do you guys think?
