As promised, I’ve got knitting pictures today! Woo!
I took a swing through Pacifica recently, hitting all my favorite spots. The Royal Bee yarn shop, the Tripp Distillery and a foggy beach, a perfect trifecta!
I did a bit of unnecessary yarn shopping. Those colors though! Irresistible! I’m calling this a nephew sweater. I’ve used that kid as an excuse for a lot of yarn shopping this year. He may get a sweater out of this yet. It’s Swans Island Sport, a new to me yarn…another justification.
Once my Pebble Beach scarf is finished, I’ll be ready for a new cast on! Assuming, of course, I win at yarn chicken. The pattern calls for a picot bind off and I suspect that needs to be modified. I just need to find some time to get out the scale. I’ll weigh my yarn, knit a bit, weigh the yarn again and then do some math to make a more educated guess about yarn chicken status. Current prediction: I’m losing.
I really want to get to the blocking stage phase of this project though. I also picked up a set of knit blockers at the Royal Bee.
They get universally good reviews, so I’m assuming I’ll love them too. I love them for looking like toothy little monsters. We’re off to a good start!
Also, as promised…I watched the premier episode of Making It! It’s a lot of fun. The makers are a fun group of crafters with lots of different interests…fiber, fabric, paper, wood. And Nick and Amy are great, of course. Not only did Nick demonstrate his ability identify different woods by smell, they had a great pun off! I definitely stole ‘Y’all thready for this?’ from them. So, check it out! It gets two needles up from me!
It was a perfect backdrop as I finished my Ron Swanson inspired phone case. LOL! I wish the old design hadn’t stained the plastic case. I washed, scrubbed and soaked it to no avail.
I’m hoping it’ll fade with use. If not, it’ll just linger as proof that I’m recycling my phone case and clearly not a rich woman :)
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I’m pretty sure I missed everything after that first photo! I’ll have to and reread lol
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jolly good :)
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Such a fun read. Those blockers are amazing btw but I think you’ll need a zillion of them for a scarf, no?
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Not necessarily. They have holes on the edges. The instructions say tie a string in the hole, and then feed it through the edge of your garment securing the opposite end at the hole of a second knit blocker. So just two sets of pins with a string doing most of the work. You definitely get nice straight lines that way. I’ll try it some day…:)
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Ohh I was wondering how the toothy monsters work, that’s so clever! Will you show us an ‘action’ shot when you block something next?
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Check out my Pebble Beach FO Post a couple days later. There’s one pic there. I’m looking forward to using them more. The instructions suggest, instead of blocking with wires, to use a piece of string that is tied at each end to a toothy monster. I’m curious to try that out sometime.
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