Just Off a Knitting Binge

Since that twined knitting workshop at the beginning of April, I haven't done much other than twine knitting. I've done a few things and I've finally stopped to work on something else that is time sensitive. And today I took some pretty good pictures of the twined knitting I've been working on. Not everything is finished, but it's surprisingly nice looking stuff.

My first hat looks nice on, although I don't know that I'd wear it. It's a little too much of a look. I mean, I've got a "look," (we all do) but the hat isn't part of my look. Plus, my eye is drawn to every flaw - and there are plenty. Someone else wouldn't see them. Nice swirl, eh?

The next thing I did was make a little bag to use up what was left over after the hat was done. I did some experimenting. I'm particularly crazy about the green stripe that goes around the whole thing. I need to finish this off, but it's that non-knitting finishing that I'm not crazy about.

Then I started this hat. It took a while to do and at the end of it, it felt like I was making a rug. That Tibetan green wool is a really stiff knit. But it softens up when it's blocked and this will be a nice winter hat. It was suddenly much bigger than I planned, so it goes way over my ears - but now it's perfect. I'm crazy about the little loop on top. It's not too fruity and looks very functional. The whole thing is very sturdy and masculine. I saw those stripes up the side in a book and I wanted to see how that was done. I like it.

Here's a great shot of it up close. That green yarn has recycled silk through it. Tons of nice flecks of color. I'm really happy with it because right at the end I thought it was going to be absolute crap and it was going to the donation pile. And now it's beautiful.

On the plane to Rome, I started a pair of mittens with a yarn I've been itching to get rid of for years. This orange is so obnoxious in a ball, but it's a super wash wool, and I hung on to it. I hate looking at it. But as a second color in these mittens it's totally do-able. They'll be good kid mittens, I think. Easy to find. Still a tiny bit of finishing to do - the thumb, for instance.

This twined knitting has really made me love knitting on a different level. Manipulating a piece of string with two needles is fascinating. There are tons of things you can do. I'm really enjoying it. I noticed, though, that I don't cast on for these twined things very well. I need a quick lesson so I can make the cast on look really good.

I'm itching to start on my next thing. After doing that twined knitting for a while, regular knitting seems to go really quickly. And that's been my month in knitting