I finished a scarf!

[firecat]

It's knitted out of four different yarns: shetland wool, kid mohair, tussah silk/wool (all hand dyed) and recycled silk. Each row is a separate piece of yarn that's tied to the previous row (this forms the fringe). I got the yarns at the Mendocino County Wool and Fiber Festival in September.

Instructions for the scarf are in The Knitting Experience: Book 1 The Knit Stitch. As a beginning knitter, I like this book's instructional design a lot and I think a lot of the projects are really attractive looking (but large sizes for the clothing projects aren't given, phooey). The only thing I could do without is the author's blathering on about how knitting is spiritual and meditative and will "change your life." I do understand what she's saying but...can't people just have hobbies any more?

Here it's sitting on the cat condo next to my computer.


The OH took some pictures of it on me. Here's one of the tame ones. :-)

Comments

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

That is a beautiful piece. Would you like another skein of the recycled silk then? It wouldn't be enough for an entire scarf, and it's a blend purple but there's a lot of red and blue in there.

I really can't read much about meditation or self help. It tends to annoy me. (Although I don't know that it has to be a progession necessarily.) I do think that certain repetive things are quickly state inducing for me whereas just sitting and breathing doesn't work. I need a top brain disconnector. And I can see what P was saying, I think, as it just seems to happen. Wouldn't that be a personal thing?

I crocheted a lot more when I was younger and I don't remember it being that way then. The way it happens now with walking or gardening or other things seems more recent.

[firecat]

Thanks! A skein of recycled silk would be great. And purple counts as part of the red and blue part of the spectrum.

Same thing for me with regard to meditation - the sitting and breathing is much harder. But I think I'm going to try it anyway, because the few times I've done it for more than a day or two, interesting stuff has started to happen.