The long-awaited blog entry. I just signed up for a flickr account, and oooh it’s fun. I had taken some pictures of red stuff in the apartment, but thought they were pretty boring by themselves. Along comes flickr toys and they don’t look so bad.
I’ve also been madly knitting on River, the scarf/stole I’m making for mum’s birthday. This needs to be wrapped and ready to give by March 31st. I started on the 3rd, and only just started on ball #2 of 2 on Monday. I still think I can do it, if I make sure I make time to knit at least 1.5 pattern repeats per day, no more exceptions. And now, a River mosaic, as I haven’t posted any of these pics yet, and all would be too many.
This is a good pattern, it’s not too boring, and every other row is straight knitting, so it can be sort of mindless. I haven’t had any problems with the yarn (Kidsilk Haze) even though it is so thin and slippery. I’m using Denise needles, and yes, sometimes it does catch on the join, but not too badly. My main worry right now is how I store it. I keep my current project in a little drawstring mesh bag that once held MEC long underwear. It’s great for keeping everything together. My concern now is that pulling it in and out is fluffing it up. I don’t want it too fluffy. I’m hoping blocking will get rid of this problem. The other fun thing is the amount of static in it. What with said rubbing and the crazy high altitude, it’s quite the staticky ball of fluff.
