Don't Blink!

When I first took pictures to post a couple of days ago, I meant to show these current projects I'm working on...


A sweater for Solly...

The back is done; working on the front!

Great Uncle "Hooey" (Henry's) crocheted slippers for his 94th Birthday...

The original pair appeared to be a bit larger than I imagine his feet to be, so I started a new pair to present to him at his party yesterday. Sadly, I didn't get them finished and now that one is complete, I am thinking perhaps the larger size won't be so large once seamed and finished! Back to square one!

And the start of my Cotty's by IrishGirlieKnits!

These are being knit with the Pigeon Roof Studios merino/cashmere I had picked up at Stitches West. The colorway is Labyrinth, and is more purple than shows in this picture.

Once I cast on for the picot cuff last week, it went quite quickly. So quickly, that by the time I had a chance to load the pics above, I was able to take a pic of this and completed my first of the pair! This, while trying to get the Uncle Hooey Slippers 1 & 2 done!

Cotty's shown, almost to the toe!

As well as bring the Lil'Emp to the Alameda County Fair on Furlough Friday...
Sadly, I didn't get a chance to pop in to the Fiber Arts building; something told me if I had, I may have seen some wonderful socks or shawls knit by BellyButtonKnits! Darn if I missed it! But we rode the rides and I ate a chocolate-dipped cheesecake!

So while Uncle Hooey needs to wait for his slippers, I am LOVING the Cotty pattern! Quick and easy and awfully pretty! Now to cast-on for the second...sorry, Uncle Hooey, I'll have to try and get your slippers done inbetween the Cotty's, now that your party has passed and I missed deadline!

Color Ponderance

Iwas playing a bit with my spinning the morning and realized how spinning serves a constant reminder to me that color is not finite. We think we see one color, but is it really? It can really be so many more colors that combine into one and we don't realize that there are other hues within.

Take for instance, the Pigeon Roof Studios roving I bought (in a moment of weakness) the other week:

I love this roving! I loved the flash of aqua and plum mixed with the gold, brown and dark chocolate against the natural background. But I never imagined that this...


Would end up looking like this...
The aqua/blue blended in with a very subtle showing. The plum probably wasn't heavily present in the small bit I spun, but there is little to no evidence of it ever being part of the beginning colors.


I guess this was kind of a 'blending colors' moment in my week, since I was also knitting a square to contribute for a blanket for Alison Hyde (ETA: Nartian told me about Nathania's post, I thought I'd participate in participating in contributing a block or two, Tina blogged about Alison...and after reading her blog, especially this entry, I confirmed she is exactly as wonderful as all say she is...not that I doubted...) I used the Spunky Ecclectic Route 66 together with the Miss Babs Waterfall to result in this...

Apparently, she likes blues. The Route 66, though yellowish/cream to the eye, blended quite nicely with the Waterfalls resulting in a square that reads pretty 'blue' for the most part.

And speaking of color blending and blues, I will now share with you my first Rockin' Sock Club colorway of 2009...



This is our first shipment that included a Syvia Harding beaded sock pattern, so it came with beads, too.

No, as Tina points out in her Dyer's Notes, this is NOT a semi-solid, nor is it a 'watercolor' colorway. It is MULTICOLORED. Some members in the past had incorrectly referred to past shipments as "semi-solids" and whined at how tired they were of getting all semi-solids from BMFA as club yarn.

Well, I guess I'm just one of her "rabbid fans" because I loved all of them! I didn't see the first four shipments as 'semi-soid' at all; Nartian, being the more cranial of us two (I'm the 'feely', she's the 'thinky' ;) ), was able to break it all down and make the observation and correctly classify them into Watercolors, Multi and Semi-solid on Ravelry, but some people just don't get it...But I think Tina tried her best to explain this particular colorway in this shipment's Dyer's Notes and pointed out there are FIVE different colors in this skein.

And it is so...


...I counted!