YIPPEE!! In my previous post I discussed the possibility of adding the orange -green yarn to this potato chips scarf, as it seemed I wasn't going to have enough yarn otherwise. I asked for some input on whether or not the two would work together and got mixed reviews. One of ladies I asked is a high school friend who works at my local yarn shop. She said, "I don't think you'll be happy with it if you do." Love people giving you a honest answer. I bought this yarn on the West Coast months ago and didn't have the label to give me a color number of anything to match it with. On line searching didn't look like anyone carried this yarn, but my yarn shop had a few skeins and my friend remembered it. Yippee, problem solved. See where the red circle is in the picture, that's where I added the new skein........so I've made some good headway with this scarf and am really liking it. Pleased you really can't tell. Who knows if the dye lot was the same. I still have some of the 1st cake so will get to the 2/3rd's point and switch back to it.
AND, I've made really good headway with my drop stitch shawl. In the previous post you can see I've just gotten to the 5 rows of lace in the first solid yellow section. After that lace section I've done a section of garter stitch of solid yellow, garter stitch darker bland, garter stitch solid yellow....which is the half way point. Beyond that I've done a garter stitch section of light blend, followed by another solid yellow garter stitch section and am now at the end of the yellow lace section. Quite a few additional inches. Will move back to the mix sections of light and dark blends with lace and garter stitches. Then, I will add yellow I think to both ends to pull it all together.
When last I showed you this gray blend shawl it needed to have it's ends worked in. Yippee........got that done, something I put off. Here's the shawl nicely draped with a fabulous hand made shawl pin. I'm very pleased I found that, think it really finishes it off. This is a gift for a very good friend who likes gray and hinted at that when I made the pink and green for myself awhile back.
A close up of the pin with those gray stones......I really thought it was perfect.
This is my upper arm, 4 days after getting my Shingles shot. It was hot to the touch for a week, but got better each day. Muscle type soreness. My cost after insurance was $143.00.....and I still need the 2nd go round several months down the road. Even with all that said, it beats getting the shingles, so I do recommend you get yours if you haven't already.
LOL......spotted this recently in a little gift shop and it spoke to me. And with that, I'm heading to the kitchen to make Manhattan's for tonight. Hubby just called and said he's finally leaving work.
Well...a bit of start-itis hit me. I've been anxious to start working with this yarn, Queensland Collection, Perth 3.5 oz 437 yards and finally decided on this ruffle scarf. The pattern is called Potato Chip. I'm adding a link to a video that describes how you accomplish this using short rows. I didn't find this video until I was at the point you see above. In the video she goes from a small amount of stitches to a larger, the pattern I used did the opposite. VIDEO HERE
The pattern I used though isHERE, but I am not using worsted weight yarn, and therefore I used 1.5...in that I cast on 30, and used 12-9-6 for my short row count. Then thought it wasn't quite full enough and periodically changed to 15-11-8 and then would go back to 12-9-6. My problem now is wondering if I'll have enough yarn as I was going to use both of this in fairly large blocks. On my recent ladies trip to Hilton Head, my friend talked me into just using the purple.........gotta get my scale out and weigh how much I have left and decide if this is going to work.
Have done a few more rows on my mellow yellow (just decided on that name) shawl. The drop stitches show up so much more on the solid yellow because you can see the carpet behind.
I've not signed up for the official challenge, but am using this photo to try and limber up with yoga a bit. Still having a few issues with vertigo; but trying to work through it.
Night two of my 50th class reunion. YES.......I am that old! We were setting things up here before the non committee classmates showed up. A fun, but tiring weekend. It was just one day after that when I headed out of town for ladies week.
Was nice to get away and relax afterwards. How's things going with you?
Making headway, but slower than I would like with my yellow shawl. I tend not to work on this at night while watching tv. The light weight sock yarn and I do better in the light of day without distractions......thus it's taking longer. Since it's laying on my green chair and ottoman you can see through the yellow section better than the multi-colored sections. Think you can now better see the lacy effect better than you could before the yellow section was added.
Folks there seems to be technical trouble. The sound isn't working now on this video. It worked, then it didn't, then it did again, and now not. Will leave it for now in case it works itself out. Now some folks are hearing it and some aren't. I hear it when I open using Explorer, but not currently with google.....yikes. Give it a try though folks, he really is cute.
Snarky.......yes, but it made me smile, so thought I'd share. So much going on right now, hard to keep up with all the scandals and lies. Never in my life did I think we'd be in such a state with so many people at the top being so inappropriate.
As a person who LOVES Amazon Prime..........I had to snatch this picture!
