I just won two gold medals in the Ravelympics.
One of them was just fun, an Ysolda hat pattern called Rose Red. The construction of this hat is genius with all shaping coming from the pattern itself (lace and cables).
Knit in K1 Yarns Scappa some gift yarn from Edinburgh in a perfect blue/green colour. Love it.
Rose Blue (or green)
The other medal was pretty easy and only took 30 minutes or so. The even Aerial Unwind just consist of frogging something. And a pretty fugly sock experiment I had going on was a perfect candidate
I’m knitting a Iclandic yoke sweater for this years ravelympic
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Ravelry entry contains more info. So far, so good. All I’m really worried about is if it will fit in the end and not least of all the STEEKING!
I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve…
Not long ago I received the long awaited paper edition of Whimsical Little Knits 2 and despite the fact that I still have a couple of midwinter presents (or christmas presents if you wish) to knit I just couldn’t resist casting on Damson.
I actually started in a red yarn before I realised that it would run out halfway trough the scallops. So I’m making it in the bluegrass colourway of Sock! Merino by Lisa Souza instead. It’s intensely green but that’s fine by me. And as it’s not a gift unlike all the stuff I’ve made for months now… The yarn is quite skinny but very soft and nice to knit with, and I’ve had it for years, thinking that it was too soft for socks. It’s good to use some of the deep stash sometimes.
The picture was taken on my first instalment of the project, before I frogged it and started in on smaller needles. The fabric just felt too airy and the shawl was too small. I had reached the lace scallops and had a lot of yarn left so this time I’m making the garter stitch portion bigger by 18 or 36 rows.
And I recently bought new stitch markers on Etsy
Seller was Vegancraftastic that I got an awesome project bag from at the same time. I love supporting cool vegans that make nice stuff 
And I really do heart tofu. To such an extent that I’m off to make some dinner with it now.
A couple of months ago a thread started over at the stash and burn groupies boards on Ravelry. The thread was originally about “going cold sheep for a year” meaning, a full year of yarn dieting.
This coincided with me realising that my yarn chest (an old seaman’s chest) was unable to close due to being too stuffed with yarn. So I signed up for it. With modifications.
I will only go for six months. From autumn equinox to spring equinox = Sept 22th 2009- March 20th 2010.
I can buy yarn to use yarn. Meaning that I can get a contrasting colour to use with a main colour from my stash
The all time high totals of the stash was calculated October 12th, by adding it all to Ravelry and frogging some UFO’s was 29940,2 meters (or 32742,8 yards) and that was after getting rid of some of the crap yarn I had!
Now, after 1.5 month of cold sheeping, lots of knitting, donating some yarn and generally being a good girl/cold sheeper…
Stash totals as of 14th November 27431,6 meters (29999,5 yards). A known loss of 2508,6 meters (2743,3 yards)
