07.15.08
I’ll block it tomorrow
I recently finished the Branching Out scarf, from Knitty, in Silky Wool from Elsebeth Lavold, the yarn the pattern called for. It’s a gorgeous scarf, and I am totally in love with Silky Wool – I love the soft/crisp feel on the needles, and I especially love how it softens up as you handle it. My scarf’s color is Verdigris, which we’ll have in stock very soon!
Here’s my Silky Wool scarf, still awaiting blocking (What can I say? I love knitting very much, but I love blocking somewhat less…) Do you ever get stuck at this point? You knit it, you love it, but you can’t quite work up the energy to block it?
What do you do? Just wear it as is? That’s my favorite “solution”, and that works beautifully with socks, which don’t really need blocking to look good. But maybe I could be a wee bit more disciplined about blocking things like scarves, don’t ya think? How do you motivate yourself to block your finished items?
We’ve also added Hempathy, another Elsebeth Lavold yarn. It’s a summery blend of hemp (no, not THAT kind of hemp), cotton, and Modal – and it’s available in a pretty range of summer colors.
And ON SALE now: Cherry Tree Hill Sockittome and Lily Chin Chelsea yarns – check them out!
Tuesday Tips — knitting tips you can USE!
Tired of chasing yarn balls across the floor? I love this tip! Use a clean plastic container, maybe an empty food storage container or plastic box, large enough to hold one (or several) balls of yarn, several inches tall, with a fairly wide mouth, so it’s easy to reach your hand inside, and large enough to not tip over easily.
Drop in your ball of yarn, set it on the floor at your feet, and you can knit without worrying about the yarn running away. The yarn stays put and stays clean. Here are two of my containers – nothing fancy, but they work.
If you’re feeling ambitious, you could cut a small hole in the lid, feed your working yarn up thru the hole, and put the lid back on the container to restrain that wayward ball even more, but I’ve never needed to use the lid, the open containers work fine for me.
Trying not to think about how many finished projects still need blocking…
Sue
sandy said,
July 28, 2008 at 9:42 pm
or, for my sox, i am doing 2 up on magicloop i have each one in it’s own ziplock bag. the 2 bags and needles go in a bag i carry around …this is even cheaper. does it keep the dog hair off…nope! but it is ease to carry and keeps then neat and i can hang the bag on the anything.