Larocque and Roll

Did someone say “knitting”? February 10, 2007

Remember when I was lamenting that I didn’t have any knitting projects to fill the void left by my finishing my mother’s socks? Well I don’t really have an equally demanding project to stimulate my attention, but I am working on a few other little things at the moment.

First are the squares for the cancer blanket the knitting guild is working on.

The yarn was from a grab bag the guild president bought. It is a pleasing shade of blue, and I’ll be sorry to be finished with it. (On a side note to Cynthia: I have four squares for the Warming Grace blankets which I unearthed a few weeks ago. When I get my act together - surely, I will be dangerous if that ever happens - I’ll mail them off.)

Next is the scarf.

The stitch pattern is called “seafoam”, and it comes from the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Vol. 1: Knit & Purl. I like this pattern - it’s not exactly mindless, but it doesn’t require me to devote all my attention to what I’m doing. However, I’ve almost finished the ball and I don’t have any more of that particular colour, so I’m going to frog it and do something else. It’s a shame because it looks so cool. Maybe I’ll just redo it at a narrower width.

Finally, we have the project which was meant to be the sock-replacer: Fetching with alpaca.

Don’t get excited about it - for starters, the yarn is a dark brown, even though it looks orange there. Also, the yarn is much too thick for the project - either I have to find bigger needles or yarn that gets gauge closer to what the pattern calls for. I think I’m just going to try to find yarn that’s closer to what the pattern calls for and save this one for something else.

And then there’s this

I love the material - the plan is to take it apart and use the material for other projects. What exactly I don’t know yet, but it will come to me.

Now we come to the fun stuff. At work, a couple of the librarians booked all the display cases for the month of December to give everyone a chance to show off our crafts we’ve made over the year. I promised a friend I’d make him a We Call Them Pirates hat because it’s the kind of badass thing he’d wear. I’ve decided this is going to be *my* contribution because it’s the kind of practical, show-offy yet clever thing I’d do.