FO: Pipette

  

As I was writing up the pattern for Pip, I decided to knit a second sample to make sure that I remembered all of the details. I grabbed some yarn from my deep stash - some hot pink Classic Elite Waterlily, a yarn which is sadly discontinued - and got to knitting. Just a few days later, and blammo: hat!

It also just so happened that we were on the eastside for Lumberjack's grandma's birthday, and she lives less than a block from my old school, which I haven't been to in about ten years. The school isn't there anymore - I think it's a church building now - but the building itself is exactly the same. It was raining, but we managed to get some good shots on the south wall.

It was weirdly fitting to be taking photos at the same place where I first took photography classes when I was thirteen, on the grounds where I took lots of dumb pictures of my feet. I probably have a picture of this wall somewhere in my boxes of negatives!

And on a totally different note, I like that Pipette isn't just a feminization of the name Pip, it's also a laboratory instrument. Go science!

Details on Ravelry here.

Of a Different Stripe

So Little Bird still needs a bath, but when I went to take photos of my newly striped Suki, they were sitting next to each other on the table and it was sort of amazing to see how different they are, even though they're both grey + warm hue striped shawlettes.

This one of the things I love so much about yarn: the ability to tell completely different stories based on choices about color and texture.

 

Little Bird is exactly like she sounds: petite and delicate, the colors slightly blurred, like the grainy-soft color of a sparrow's wing. I had never thought of Tosh Merino Light as a rustic yarn before, but in many ways it is: the fabric it creates is gently uneven - almost pebbled - even though the yarn itself has a smooth, luminous core.

 

Suki, on the other hand, is all sophistication. There is a softness, yes; but it's a different animal entirely. Though there's depth and texture to the color, it's the polished kind: it's a purebred stallion to Little Bird's wild wing. It's classic, perfectly balanced in its simplicity and luxury - which is usually not quite my style, but I'm enjoying myself so damn much that I don't care.

Happy Friday, friends!

<3

Cory

WIP: Suki

Today I'm home sick from work with my second cold of the season (boo), but in between Theraflu-induced naps and chapters of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I've been able to get a little knitting time in.

My Little Bird in the Briar is newly cast off and waiting for a bath - my ingenious plan worked, by the way! - so I chose a new two-color shawlette: Suki from The Sock Report, Vol. 1. Yarn Harlot made a beautiful version of Suki a few years back, and I fell in love with the idea of using a soft, melty yarn to make my own. In one of my few yarn excursions while I worked on my collection in 2013, I got some burgundy and grey Lotus Mimi for my devious shawley purposes, and it's burned a hole in my stash ever since.

So far, I'm thoroughly enjoying myself. The yarn is 100% mink, and touted as being cruelty-free. The burgundy colorway is deeply shaded - a glaze of ruby over black - and even without blocking has created a light, cohesive fabric with a dark halo.

And since my head feels like it's stuffed with small, furry animals, what better way to enhance the whole experience than with yarn that feels like cuddling a friendly mink?

FO: Amazing Multicolored Neck Blanket

  

YEAHHHH FRIENDS! NECK BLANKET IS DONE, AND THAT SHIT MERITS SOME CAPSLOCK!!!!!!!!!

After way too long, my Amazing Multicolored Neck Blanket is finished. It took me an hour and a half to weave in all those ends. An hour and a half. Then again, it only took me a full year to knit the damn thing. I have triumphed over my knitterly laziness at last!

Have I mentioned how unreasonably, deliciously large and cozy Mr Blankie is? Like a sophisticated Snuggy. Or a coverlet, for a snake, if snakes slept in beds. (Help me out, I'm reaching here.)

Anyhow, I'm going to go outside now with Mr Blankie and everyone will wonder why someone dumped a basket of clean laundry on me on my way out of the house

brb

<33

Details - yarn, colorways, etc - on Ravelry here.