Thursday, May 22, 2008

A plea and a tempation

Sorry I have been out of pocket. Life got super busy there.

The Samara Scarf has entered an ugly phase and I am not so sure about it.



Okay it looks pretty here...lot's of purples, and mauves.



Not so bad...the green adds some interest. But then...



A BRUISE!!! It would be different if there wasn't such a big expanse of pretty purple-ness. But the colour change is too shocking after so much soothing colours.

Am I nuts? What do y'all think? Does it work? I am very tempted to tear out the bruise colours and cut it out, continuing with the purple.



In other news:

I got attacked by a new knitting bunny and it's going to be a Super Secret Project. So no pictures, just lot's of hints and I am sure grumping and groaning (right now it's all about the wedge of EVIL!). Hmm let's call it Super Secret Project 3. It's going to be entered for submission somewhere--just haven't decided where yet. And it's going to be a gift.

Reading my knitting blogs I came across the most fantastic knitting accessory ever. Growing up Mormon, we are drilled in emergency preparedness--we take the Boy Scout code very seriously. We have 72 hour kits (for evacuations), food and water storage (the goal is a year's worth), and so on. Bad things happened: BE PREPARED! I myself have laid awake nights what I will do in case of a fire: how to save both my children and my yarn and not come off looking like a putz. But, this idea is just right up my alley! I really want to get it--but what I really need to do is convince that I need another knitting bag. (Someone buy a pattern so I can justify my knitting existence!!)

Last night we moved our weekly informal (it's started out as a cry for company and now it's a week;y thing) knit meet up to Anne's house. Quite lovely. We talked and cooked/chopped/snuck pieces of food more the knitted, but we got a few rows in I think. And it's the companionship that's important--not the actually knitting, right?

Labels: enablement, frogging, knitting club, Knitting Rant, samara

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I'm sorry, but I'm with you. If the purple area were smaller, then it would be okay. I say, hack the brown off or incorporate it in earlier as well for smaller color sections.

# posted by  Unknown : May 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM

 

I like it and if the scarf is long enough it will be repeated and look even better BUT if it bugs you, it will stick out like a sore thumb...........not much help, am I? lol...back to my socks.
Barb

# posted by  Firelily (Barb in Irving) : May 23, 2008 at 9:04 PM

 

I like it Birdy!

# posted by  Enid : May 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM

 

I'd take off the brown although I'd knit ahead more first just to see if the pattern continues. The pinks and purples are so pretty!

# posted by  Amysatx : May 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM

 

Thanks y'all!

I think I am going to knit past it--see what it does. Then if I hate it (and I think I will), I'll frog back and cut the bruisey yarn off.

It looks so pretty in the skein too!

# posted by  Birdwell : May 26, 2008 at 2:03 PM

 

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