Yarn Along

I’m working on a “Tiny Tea Leaves” cardigan for Ingrid.  It completely is an impulsive knit, as it wasn’t in the plans to knit at all.  I was in-between some projects, and had so much going on at home that I needed more of a stress-relieving knitting projects rather than figure-it-out-designing knitting I usually have on the needles.  I was going through my patterns looking for a toy knit to get a head start on Christmas presents, and found this one instead.

I am using some stash yarn, which is half acrylic, and half nylon.  I know, I never use acrylic anymore unless I’m doing a baby blanket, because in general it makes my hands ache.  It just has no elasticity to it.  I made Solveig a baby sweater in this yarn, and this is the leftovers.  When the yarn store by me went out of business, I decided to add a bit in the same dye lot to this leftover yarn, so it could stretch to one more project.  It IS really soft yarn, though I don’t think I’d buy it again.

Since my other girls are really into bright colors these days, and Ingrid is the only one who lets me dress her without a peep as to what she looks out, I’m going to enjoy this soft pink for as long as it lasts.

She really could use a sweater, and I haven’t knit that much just for her, and the Tiny Tea Leaves is such a satisfyingly quick project, especially after my fingering weight, color work, adult sweater.  I’m loving this speed.

I got to finally use my new needles for the body.  For my birthday I got some chestnut interchangeable needles from Dyakcraft, but it took several months for this custom order to be completed and mailed out to me.  Oh my word, they were worth the wait.  They’re heirloom quality, and smooth as can be.  I feel a little bad that I used them for the first time using my cheapest yarn, but it was what I wanted to “use up” and the project that I wanted to do.  I’m just happy to actually be working from my stash, and I believe this is the last of the acrylic.  So the needles will have to submit just this once.

Right now I’m working on DPNs, though, from the Fringe Association, which I also got for my birthday…last March and are finally getting used.  I swatched with them a bit before, so it’s not quite their maiden voyage, but they are very lovely as well, and have been very good for staying on gauge with the wooden needles.

I’m returning to The Egg and I which I never finished before.  I was getting sick of going through school readers, and picked up a “me” book to read before bed to unwind.  Though this book is so funny, I’m not sure how it is for helping me unwind.  It’s the story of a chicken farmer’s wife in Washington state in the ’40s or so.  I love her voice, and her humor.

Linking up with Ginny’s Yarn Along.