Calliope Hat, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
For some reason, I seem to have forgotten to blog about this hat! I’ll do that today. Calliope was my first hat, and as such is slightly, um, suffused with character. But I love the yarn very much, I don’t know if you can see it, but there’s some pooling and flashing of the purple, and that part is really neat. This hat I could have stood to make wider around, but oh well. I did 68 stitches around on 6.5mm 16″ Addi Turbos.
Once upon a time, in the frigid snows of December, Verde went to an ye olde cheapass craft store in Richmond, Virginia, and procured for the Frarochvia two semi-precious 55 yard balls of Nicole Flutter Yarn, in a blue-purple-teal colorway, acquired for the princely sum of two dollars apiece.
Nicole Printed Flutter Yarn, or Picasso Yarn, or Dead Muppet Scarf-to-be, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
The two balls languished in wound-ball-land throughout the months of December and January, until the Frarochvia saw fit to remove them from their purgatory long and silent it was, in the dark netherworld of the trunk, shrouded with plastic to keep the cat hair away from their every flut.
Thus exposed to the light, they rejoiced, but for mere moments, until the Picasso he espyed the balls, as the Frarochvia began to knit.
But, alas. There was trouble on the horizon.
Hmmmmm, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
For the Picasso, he had found the Hiding Spot.
Let me unravel it for you, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
The balls, they flut flut flut fluttered everywhere, unraveled, shredded, drooled, chewed, love love love loved with much loving.
Chew Chew Lick Lick Love, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
Somehow, the Frarochvia persevered. She wound the balls, she triple-bagged the balls to thwart even the wooing of the plastic-and-yarn loving yarnivore Picasso. And she knit. Again.
Ten stitches per row, in garter stitch she stitched. Addi Turbos in 10.5, the better to prevent the Picasso from running off with the scarf.
And she knit.
The scarf, it grew grew grew grew until the moment came and the Frarochvia had to admit it. The scarf looked like Grover. Grover’s pelt. And if the Frarochvia was knitting Grover, Grover was dead. And! She was knitting a dead muppet scarf!
Paws, Grover the dead muppet scarf, and Cookie Monster the partially eaten cookie, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
The Paws saw the scarf, and from the first moment she donned the dead muppet scarf, a designation so laudable that it recieved its own ASL sign name, it was kismet. And the Frarochvia said, what Picasso and g-d have put together, let no knitter unravel.
And it was good.
Alive Picasso and the Dead Muppet Scarf, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
Texture!, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
This is a really simple throw I’m making. Don’t mind the uneven looking loops; the blanket is in severe need of a blocking. I’m doing it up in KnitPicks Suri Dream yarn, which is 74% Suri alpaca, 22% wool, and 4% nylon. It manages to both be gossamer-like and densely fuzzy, which I really like. I’m up to 2 balls out of 7, and this throw will grow up to be 6 by 6 feet. I’m making it on 19mm 32″ Addi Turbos, just straight garter all the way through. It’s really easy, but bulky, so not going as fast as I would like!
Babochka and the throw, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
Babachen is the greatest geriatic catchen ever. For those new of you to my blog, which would be, well, everybody, I call cats catchen mostly because in German liebchen is used to denote my little love, and frankly, those catchen? My little love love love loves.
Babochka would be the greatest love of them to me. I admit it. I am overtly attached. Her real name is something mostly lost to the ages, as she’s been babachen, my little grandmother, for so long. She’s now something like 14 years old, and in a few short months I’ll have had her for half my life. She and I have been roommates in a succession of apartments since 1998, and her illnessess and messes notwithstanding, she is my favorite roommate. Baba and I sleep together every night all snuggled up like how a little kid snuggles with a toy to sleep with. And she’s on my lap every night as I knit, and seems to be of the opinon that babas eat ice cream, milk, cheese, and chocolate. She’s the babachen, I’m just the catstaff, so poking me to death and demanding to lick my lips usually occurs, and it’s just a question of who can hold out the longest. I’m not ashamed to say I usually lose, because baba may not have claws, but she can lick me to death, and threatening her with a spoon disembowelment never seems effective. Wonder why.
Hat!, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
My third hat in three days… I enjoyed the making of this hat a lot, especially the creative process involved in deciding how big to make the stripes. I made this hat with 11 rows of K2P2 rib, and then rows 12-38 were sockinette with K2tog decreases after that.
However, the yarn is KnitPicks’s Wool of The Andes yarn. I think that it’s a bit lifeless, really, and not as crisp or yummo as I’d like it to be. It probably was too much of a contrast compared to that of the Isabel yarn. I would say this yarn is good for children or for felting projects. I admit though I do like that this hat took half of 3 balls of yarn, and with each ball under $2, that means this hat cost me $3! Great learning experience.
Isabel, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
My second hat, and the modified in-the-round Miss Bell pattern. I also learned the cable cast on, and this made an incredible difference! I increased the number of caston stitches to 76, did the first twenty rows in k2p2 rib, the rest in sockinette, and this hat fits really well! I love it.
Calliope Scarf, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
This is what resulted from the box of yarns Neekamarie sent me! We won’t talk about how many attempts it took me to get this done right… something like 10. Different stitch patterns, different needle sizes. Didn’t help that I wanted to emulate the Neekita style and we have vastly different stitch gauges!
Halfway point!, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
Just so you know, a red scarf that’s got nothing but amazing tactile detail oh and it’s cotton, so it just sucks in light? Hard hard hard hard to take good pictures of.
That’s 9,240 stitches there and I’m not letting you forget that, either. It’s Debbie Bliss cotton DK yarn and it’s really knitting up nicely. I’m nearly done with the sixth repeat, so it’s bigger than this picture right now, but a precise halfway point picture is way more fun, so there we go.
Isabel Done, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
I’m really not sure whether to hope that Isabel will grow if I block her (she’s a wee bit tight, despite the fact I was perfect on gauge) and okay, seam her. Opinions? I could always frog her and turn her into a bucket hat. I really grooved this yarn and love its stripedyness, so leaving her to languish is not an option.
Peppermint Patty and the Pink Hair, originally uploaded by Frarochvia.
The pink hair is secondary. Since this is a knitting blog and all. Peppermint Patty, aka the pink fluffy fuzzy scarf, is the real star here. I started her on Friday afternoon and she was done Friday night! She was fun fun fun to make, just simple to do. 10 stitches cast on, then knit until used up. Wear!
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