Melodi
Disaster Cat
Socks are about 1/2 the way down the leg and I started a hat on worsted weight yarn to have another simple project - I'm doing kitty cat patterns on it as I find colored chart working pretty easy. I learned to knit with both hands to do this about 25 years ago and as long as the pattern is relatively simple it is one of those things that looks really complicated but is really very easy.
I think I finally figured out what pattern to use to finish my husband's (now my) ski sweater, I realized the cat flake wouldn't quite work but I'm experimenting with other cat patterns on the hat to see how they actually look and hope to use one of them.
I also found someone on the Irish Facebook "wool new and old leftovers" who had about 200 or so (at today's prices) of old Irish woolen mill yarns (about worsted weight) that matches perfectly the sweater of "way too many cables" I was never able to finish. I am not sure what I will do with it, but I got it for about 60 Euros and the cones are in perfect condition. There's enough to do something with that sweater and either knit or weave something else.
I just quit working on the dang thing (it is the cable sweater from one of those Knitting for Men books) because it just hurt may hands (the mill yarns are stiff for weaving or knitting machines). But I think I just stop the cables and knit a plain yoke, and then sleeves with just one or even no cables - not seven or eight of them. I may use one of the other colors because I just got sick of the same Navy Blue yarn even with flecks of other colors in it (mostly white).
We shall see, that is a bit down the road at this point.
I think I finally figured out what pattern to use to finish my husband's (now my) ski sweater, I realized the cat flake wouldn't quite work but I'm experimenting with other cat patterns on the hat to see how they actually look and hope to use one of them.
I also found someone on the Irish Facebook "wool new and old leftovers" who had about 200 or so (at today's prices) of old Irish woolen mill yarns (about worsted weight) that matches perfectly the sweater of "way too many cables" I was never able to finish. I am not sure what I will do with it, but I got it for about 60 Euros and the cones are in perfect condition. There's enough to do something with that sweater and either knit or weave something else.
I just quit working on the dang thing (it is the cable sweater from one of those Knitting for Men books) because it just hurt may hands (the mill yarns are stiff for weaving or knitting machines). But I think I just stop the cables and knit a plain yoke, and then sleeves with just one or even no cables - not seven or eight of them. I may use one of the other colors because I just got sick of the same Navy Blue yarn even with flecks of other colors in it (mostly white).
We shall see, that is a bit down the road at this point.