Spinnin' Yarns

So my really cute knitting bag that my aunt got me for xmas 2 xmases ago (little more than a year ago, same day I learned to knit) is just too small for a sweater. Or sixteen projects all OTN at once. So I am making up my own knitting bag, with a base color of black, to hold more stuff.

So far I'm sticking with a rectangular base...
Here's the swatch with some novelties and other yarns I probably won't use because they felted so differently--

I cast on 40 sts on 10's with Peruvian Highland Wool in black... knit for about 9" or so in garter st, and bound off (I tried icord bind off but didn't like how it looked and it woudln't have matched up with applied icord, so I ripped and bound off normally). Then I did the aforementioned applied I and just finished a bit ago (2 days and since it's not complicated enough to keep my knitting ADD entertained, I taught myself to knit continental just 'cause. I'm still faster in English, but I can do both now).

Then I dyed yarn with dd, since I had some brown sheep and lamb's pride left over that I needed black and blue (lol) and she bought some yarn with her own money and wanted it pink, purple and blue. Pic of hers:

Anywhoo, I also dyed some silk I have black in part (it's magenta) and I may make Annie Modesitt's silk corset in it... we'll see...

So yarn is drying, and I am picking up sts to knit up as far as I can with my peruvian highland. I also have some cascade heathered and some purple/grey/blue souvenir yarn I got in Canada to put in--and probably a bunch more I don't even realize I have

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Well, older than yesterday.

So I went to a yarn sale yesterday and was disappointed--not that there wasn't lovely yarn there, but because my stash has been frowned on, and because several things were almost-but-not-quite the right color, I only got dh some sock yarn. Whoopie freakin do.

But I was thinking about yarn, and my impulse when I go to the LYS's to bring my knitting bag in. I have no time, in these particular instances, to sit and knit, because often I have dd with me. Still, in an oddness, I feel a bit like it's the pet store and you bring your dog with you... I want my yarn to visit the other yarn...

Kids are fighting again and once more my train of thought is derailed.

On an unrelated note, I think I should point out that when knitting with beads, it is a colossally bad idea to bead near your elbows. If you have intent of being anywhere near computers, that is.

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Here it is, finally got the buttons sewn on... I like it fairly well. I do wish i'd added a few short rows in the bust. Oh well... this was using Elann.com's Adara :=D

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Here is the front half of my "Simply Spring" top from the new Crochet! magazine...

I am stuck, however, on the back... front was done in about 2.5 days. :-D

Now hopefully it's just another case of "I can't actually read and understand this pattern because I have a migraine" (don't y'all get that? It's all good in the am) but who knows...

I am noticing an overly abundant amount of this color of blue in my work lately...

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Like everyone else on the KAL, I wish I'd made a smaller size. It's gorgeous, but it has a bad habit of falling off my shoulders. I'm wondering what I can do to make it fit better. Continuing to overeat might solve *that* problem, but the ones it would create are far worse.

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Satanic knitted bodice...

I went with the 3/4 sleeves since silk "grows" and with beads I was worried it'd grow too much... so I may wind up, in fact, with regular long sleeves.

It's sparkly

it's blue

and I need to go block it and weave in ends and photos soon! Yay!!!

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