i need your advice...
... but first, look what’s blocking!
Yep, it’s the one-week Clapotis!
I can’t tell you what a joy this was to knit.
I was planning to wait for Knit Masala,
but I just couldn’t stop. (Sorry, love!)
I’ll give you all full details once it’s off
the blocking board (or, y’know,
my guest bed) and I’ve got pictures.
Now, on to the advice I need.
Several weeks ago I was browsing around on WEBS (a dangerous pastime, let me tell you), when I found Filatura Di Crosa’s Brilla Print yarn on sale for next to nothing.
The only two colors on sale were variegated, but I couldn’t let the deal pass me by.
I ordered ten balls of color 127, intending to make Annie Modesitt’s Corset Tank Top. This is a stunning pattern that I purchased about a month ago, figuring it would be a great way to start my San Diego knitting (after all, I won’t need heavy wool sweaters there).
As soon as Avast was off the needles I swatched with the Brilla. I discovered very quickly that this yarn simply won’t work with the Corset pattern. It’s too variegated for the lace work, and the colors simply aren’t what I want.
So. I now have 10 balls of this great cotton blend yarn. Here are some pictures:
The advice I need from you all is this: what the hell do I make with this beautiful yarn? I have absolutely nothing waiting in the wings, project-wise, since the Clap came off the needles this afternoon, and I was really looking forward to starting my first spring/summer garment.
I’m fairly certain that I only have enough for a tank top, and the only real rule I have is that the tank must have wide straps. I’m... uh... chesty. So the thin straps tend to look a bit strained from the effort.
It doesn’t have to be a tank, but I’ve been searching my pattern books and the internet for several days now trying to match this yarn with a pattern, to no avail. Everything is either boring or too complicated for variegated yarn. Le sigh.
So... help? Any thoughts from my lurkers, my usual suspects, the peanut gallery?
Quick Avast update: I suck at sewing. My sewing machine is, apparently, far smarter than I. We had a rumble. It won. I screamed obscenities at it. It poked me. I threatened it with scissors. It laughed and spat thread in my hair.
I hate this sewing machine. So until we’ve reconciled (or I’ve taken it apart, sold the pieces for scrap and called my tailor like I should have done in the first place), there is nothing new to report on poor Avast. I’ll keep you posted.
Now, if you’re the type of person that sees pictures of people’s pets on their blogs and thinks, “why the hell do I care,” feel free to close this window now and go read Dooce. She’s far wittier than I am, anyway.
If you want to see some cute pictures, let me give you an idea of how this started.
J and I came downstairs yesterday to find this in the middle of our living room floor:
That would be Schroeder’s bone. Vertical. After confirming that neither of us had stood the bone at attention and staring at it blankly for several minutes (we’re easily confused, us Mongrels) we tried desperately to figure out how the dog pulled it off. And, far more importantly, why.
We finally got our answer. I’ll leave you with these. Have a great week, everyone.
dog and bone pictures by J
the knit mongrel
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
