Borg-along & other new stuff
April 10th, 2004 at 7:29 pm (ingeborg)
Check out my new stuff:
The cones are my yarn for the Ingeborg knit-along. I’m going to be making the sweater for my mom, who just loves the color red. We picked out these colors while she was here visiting, but now that I have them I’m still undecided as to which color will be which part of the sweater. Originally I was thinking the bright red (on the left) would be the main color, the tan/grey (which actually is a bit more taupey than I thought from the shade card) the CC1, and the darker red the button band & hem.
Just looking at the colors together, I really like how the dark red and the taupe look together - I think that would be very striking! I don’t know how the brighter red would do as the button band then. Another option - doing a tone on tone using the dark red as the main color, the brighter red as the first contrasting color, and then the taupe or something else ???? as the button band. I have tons of the yarn, so I can swatch liberally to see what colors I like. Judy today suggested that I might want to use navy as the button band on one of the combinations. I actually have a small ball of that so I can try that out too.
I also picked up some really neat Cotton/Acrylic (75/25) yarn that I just love the colors in. The first one is shades of demin, the second one is a blue/green/light color combo. I don’t think the skein does it justice, so I’m going to knit it up and see what happens. I was thinking maybe a Rogue sweater for myself (once the belly recovers from having been invaded by growing another human being for 9 months), but am not sure I’ll like the color or the way the cotton will knit up. I got two skeins (two colors) to play around with.
Oh, and I’m sure you noticed the needles in the lower left of the picture. The are NOT for Hardangervidda! (although I could use them on the cuffs instead of the Pony Pearls I’ve already got). They are really for Ingeborg. I’m almost done with ball #1 (again!) in Hardangervidda… I’m staying on gauge, and swear I will NOT have to rip out again. :) Pictures of that tomorrow hopefully.
Joann said,
April 10th, 2004 at 9:07 pm
More needles? :) Glad to see you succumbed to two skeins of the cotton/acrylic. It makes me feel less like a hog for taking all the red/pink yarn!!
Jo
nancy said,
April 11th, 2004 at 8:31 am
Jo - Yup, more needles! Looking at the picture, I realized the second cotton skein is a green/purple/white combo, not green/blue/white. Can’t wait to knit it up and see what it looks like! Have you decided what you’ll make with your red/pink stuff?