It's a new month of challenges in Nerdopolis, and I am already making plans/starting new projects. One of the challenges is "New!" - pick something you haven't done before, including working with a yarn new to you. Well, there's not much I haven't done in knitting or crochet that I can think of, so I'm going with the yarn option. I have a cone of lace-weight cashmere mix from Colourmart, and today set about attempting to knit a kerchief.
It took me forty minutes to cast on and get to row 3. Yeah. It's just so THIN!!! It's hard to work with. I've heard Colourmart yarns are usually oiled and need washing to bloom, but I don't have a niddy noddy to skein the yarn, and lack the money right now to invest in one (don't even have the funds to make a PVC pipe niddy noddy, alas). So my plan was to knit it anyway and THEN wash it, but it's hard, man.
In other Nerdopolis plans: my team has chosen Indie Games as our "Love What You Do" theme this month, so I am being inspired by the indie video game A Short Hoke. The playable character in that game is a bluebird, so I did a Ravelry search for bluebirds and immediately fell in love with this:
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It's a new month of challenges in Nerdopolis, and I am already making plans/starting new projects. One of the challenges is "New!" - pick something you haven't done before, including working with a yarn new to you. Well, there's not much I haven't done in knitting or crochet that I can think of, so I'm going with the yarn option. I have a cone of lace-weight cashmere mix from Colourmart, and today set about attempting to knit a kerchief.
It took me forty minutes to cast on and get to row 3. Yeah. It's just so THIN!!! It's hard to work with. I've heard Colourmart yarns are usually oiled and need washing to bloom, but I don't have a niddy noddy to skein the yarn, and lack the money right now to invest in one (don't even have the funds to make a PVC pipe niddy noddy, alas). So my plan was to knit it anyway and THEN wash it, but it's hard, man.
In other Nerdopolis plans: my team has chosen Indie Games as our "Love What You Do" theme this month, so I am being inspired by the indie video game A Short Hoke. The playable character in that game is a bluebird, so I did a Ravelry search for bluebirds and immediately fell in love with this:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/spring-bluebird-banner
I bought it, even though I probably shouldn't have spent the money... but it's just so pretty! I should have yarns in my stash that will work.