Saturday, April 23, 2011

I can do entrelac

This is my first attempt at entrelac. It's going to be my first pair of mittens for my first OWL, so I thought "Opal: Harry Potter" sock yarn in "Hedwig" was funny. I'm actually loving the colors, though they're mainly dull green/grays. (Plus I love the way they coordinate with the knitting bag I bought from Kelly.)



We have to do a swatch for each pattern in our OWL, but we are allowed to do the first inch or two of a sock or mitten AS the swatch. Unfortunately, at this point, I decided to Rippit Rippit. It got frogged, because it's huge. I can fit two arms in there.



Found this in my letterbox. I did pay for it, mostly! I ordered some of Sue's nice sock yarn, and paid, but she was out of the color I ordered. Her webpage wasn't subtracting her sales, apparently. She gave me a choice between the only two left. She was going to start dyeing again soon with larger skeins, she said, but the one I ordered was 100g. So I was surprised to get this, with a 120g label and a price sticker for a bit more than I paid. Plus, when I threw it on my kitchen scales (because it just felt heavy!) it was actually 130g! This is Two Tees in "The Blues".


And I may have bought some more on Ravelry... some white Madeline Tosh sport for mittens. That makes it school supplies, which is not only acceptable but, erm, required. hehe.

5 comments:

Lynne said...

Very pretty - it looks nice and soft.

kelgell said...

Ha ha ha. I love your schooling excuses. :) The blue yarn looks great. I really like that colour blue. Turns out my wardrobe additions have included a few pieces in such a colour. Bonus on not having the one you actually ordered too. I'm interested to see the entrelac mittens. Bummer for needing to frog it. I need to frog some of my pixie beanie as it's getting too tight. I'm undecided as to whether I will frog it all and start again a bit bigger (and correct a mistake that warped the pattern at the beginning) or to just before my decreasing.

Ruth's Place said...

The mitten looks great, love the colours, and your new yarn...drool.

SinΓ©ad said...

Good first attempt at entrelac, although a shame it was too big. The colours are nice though. That's a great bonus weight skein, and I like the blue colour. Lol at the school supplies excuse for stash enhancement!

Tara said...

I once knit an entire sweater out of Entrelac. Never. Again.

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