CINNABAR
Tiphanie: I’m actually surprised at myself. I said that I wouldn’t knit a scarf for me anymore. Aside from maybe Backyard Leaves. When I saw this, ahhh I love this. The color! Cinnabar! Color! (blog minion: you sure you wouldn’t rather go to Cinnabon and have their Cinnabons… mmmmm – that’s what the name Cinnabar evokes in my head…)
Frarochvia: *laugh* I like that it’s reversible. The color is great too. And oh yeah. I got two balls of alpaca/silk I thought about using for this.
Tiphanie: I find myself preferring reversible scarves. I love backyard leaves yes but sometimes I need to flip the ends when I’m wearing. I love the Irish Hiking Scarf too but I want it to look right so I flip the ends too.
Frarochvia: *laugh* I’d do that too. I thought about flipping the Irish so that the twists were on both sides. So I understand.
PARTY LACE SCARF
Tiphanie: I like the scarf but I’m afraid of knitting this and then losing it.
Frarochvia: I do too. But not with the beads. At all.
Tiphanie: Yeah. I would probably nix the beads. I don’t like beads on the ends.
Frarochvia: Party lace…Rowan kidsilk haze, one skien. I have one skein of pink Rowan kidsilk in the stash. This is your cue to groan.
Tiphanie: Pink Pink. Crystal bicone. What’s bicone?
Frarochvia: Two coned?
Tiphanie: Probably. We need to ask a bead expert. I would probably do beads but I would scatter the beads around. Random placement.
Frarochvia: No beads for me.
Tiphanie: Not even pink beads?
Frarochvia: No.
HOURGLASS
Frarochvia: I liked it.
Tiphanie: It comes in M and L only.
Frarochvia: What?!
Tiphanie: Yep. Read the description. M will stretch to fit her Size 10 feet.
Frarochvia: Oh it will *stretch* Must be stretchy.
Tiphanie: On my feet and yours. It would be uh…baggy?
Frarochvia: Clowny!
Tiphanie: US 2/2.75 mm. I would probably go with Size 1 or 2.
Frarochvia: I’d knit it on 2s.
Tiphanie: Lovely but I’m worried about sizing for smaller feet.
Frarochvia: Size 1 for me if you’re knitting it 
. But yeah. I’d worry too. I like the doggy picture on the fridge.
Tiphanie: Yeah. The doggy pic’s nice too.
MALAGAITER
Frarochvia: I know it’s not the most creative pattern but I really liked it.
Tiphanie: *lukewarm response*
Frarochvia: Still like…Yeah I could knit this in the German handspun maybe?
Tiphanie: Go for it. You need more warm items anyway. And then you’ll knit 20 more. All in pinks of course.
Frarochvia: Of course. Which should I do? Brioche or Pennant. Pennant has I guess different gathering. Flatter at the bottom.
Tiphanie: I dunno. Play the random number game.
Frarochvia: You’re no help. (blog minion: me help! me help! do pennant cuz it’s sports season now… even if i hate sports… hehehe. there! all helped!)
COUNTERPOINT
Tiphanie: It’s cute. If I knew anyone who is a classical piano player, I would knit this.
Frarochvia: I like it a lot. I would not knit it for me…But the look of it straight on vs. the side is awesome.
Tiphanie: Agreed. Illusion knitting’s fun. I wouldn’t mind making one for fun. But not a piano, or an alien. Or hearts or something sappy.
Frarochvia: I think maybe…We would knit the shadow part on different sides, rather than one like in there. And it’d be less pianoy. Make sense?
Tiphanie: Uhhh. No.
Frarochvia: No, like the blips are all on one side to present a piano like bbbbbbb. I’m talking pbpbpbpb.
Tiphanie: It would be meaningless. So nah.
RUFFLE BOA
Tiphanie: Blah. Not enticing me. I’m bored with ruffles. I see ruffles everywhere. Ruffle this and that. There’s a ruffled scarf which I like better in the Scarf Style book. And did I say that I’m bored with ruffles? Ruffle me bored.
Frarochvia: It’s cute enough. That’s all I can say. I don’t hate it. But I like the Scarf Style version better.
Tiphanie: I don’t want one. Unless it’s BIG and POUFY. Not skimpy on RUFFLES.
Frarochvia: I don’t want one either unless it was huge and pink.
Tiphanie: The Scarf Style version too skinny. I WANT GORGEOUS RUFFLES. BIG AND POUFY. Oh yes, now you’re talking.
Frarochvia: *giggles* Hey! You aren’t yelling at me at the pink. I think you should get Handknit Holidays. There’s a ruffle one there more like what you want…Huge. And In Rowan kidsilk haze. So it’s huge but not heavy.
Tiphanie: I want a HUGE one. That people would walk by and say what the hell is she wearing? Is she wearing it or is it wearing her? Ruffles! (blog minion: Hey, that made me crack up, Tiphanie, as I read this… 
Make one!!! *enablerenablerenabler*)
Frarochvia: Handknit Holidays version looks almost like stacked bells. I love it.
Tiphanie: What makes this Ruffles boa different from others?
Frarochvia: Agreed. I like the designer and read her blog. But don’t love this.
Tiphanie: Ohh. Stacked Bells. Now you’re talking. PINK!
Frarochvia: Stacked bells, definitely different. Enormous pink. We want a pink belled scarf. And we want a handknit sweater. The two should clash horribly, for best effect.
Tiphanie: I want Ruffles to be wide. 5 or 7 inches wide!
Frarochvia: It’d eat up a lot of yarn, but yes. Mmmm.
Tiphanie: So? Lot of yarns yes but we would be sexy Chicks. Savoir Faire!
EASY GOING POTHOLDERS
Tiphanie: I’m going to burn my hands. Messy real fast. I’m a cook and I’m a messy one.
Frarochvia: I use a crappy one because I’m lazy. I really should make a felted mitt.
Tiphanie: I don’t like potholders. They look too dainty and too pretty to be used. Can they be laundered? Looks too good to be uh used.
Frarochvia: Sugar n’ Cream. But you gotta sew and batt. Too lazy for that. Why not just sew both sides? (blog minion: what the heck is batt??? it sounds like you’re supposed to sew the stuff then do a baseball game using it as a ball, batting it over and over until it’s properly batted!)
KUREYON-CHAN
Tiphanie: I admit that it’s cute. I wouldn’t mind making one for my quick errands when I just want to take my car keys and my DL. Is the strap long enough to slung over the shoulder? Or is it more of a hand bag?
Frarochvia: You can make the strap longer. I could have. I didn’t.
Tiphanie: Oh. I could make the strap shorter. I like two types of bags: shoulder bags and handbags.
Frarochvia: I like the length I knit my kchan to, but I want to knit a second one with the strap long enough across my body.
