Gator Scarf

Love this. What a project.

Found here - modified from this pattern

Old to the web, new to me

Finding a defunct blog is the new 'checking out an old book' - but easier, faster, and less dusty. It feels like living history - close, still vibrant, and usually still relevant. Fashions, politics, and opinions will ever change - but  seeing such clear traces of their previous incarnations and being able to view them up close creates a new style of understanding history. Immediate history, sure - and extremely well documented.

A rambling introduction to another cool site I have been enjoying :)

Check out Japanese Knitting Patterns. Though it seems to be no longer updated, I really dig going through the archives. I dig the writer's mission of documenting their experience with Japanese knitting and patterns - a subject I can never seem to find enough of.

Flip Flop Knitspiration

I always get sent links or told stories about how "Japanese people are SO WEIRD!" and then asked "WHY?!" because anyone with any Japanese blood is apparently an authority and automatically obligated to give insight to validate or sensationalize whatever obliquely racist idea is floating, half-formed, in their head.

Whoops, that's not what I was going to write.

Hey, different cultures are different! And I happen to be especially proud of mine. Especially when I see something like...

JAPANESE FLIP FLOP KNITTING PATTERNS!!!!

The multi-toe separation ones are my favorite. GENIUS!

Found them here, and apparently you can buy it here. 

WIP - Wedding Countdown (24)

Still chugging along on the Bamboo wedding shawl - the yarn is looking fantastic! And so soft.

sorry for the blurry photo. it's my 'romantic' filter

Feels like I still have so far to go...but at least it is pleasant knitting in the meantime.
Lost a good 4 days of knitting due to the flu, so...we'll see.
Days left until wedding: 24

New obsession

Nothing to do with knitting, but I can't stop loving the dresses at BHLDN. I don't even know. Don't ask. Just look.

LOOK NOW!

At last! A new project

Getting a late start, but finally cast of for L's wedding shawl. Wedding is only ONE MONTH AWAY. Wish me luck.

blue pearl cashmere - Jade Sapphire

Pattern is the Bamboo Wedding Shawl from Purl Bee. Finally! An excuse to knit this.

Still in a Lull

Still feeling completely uninterested in knitting - although I did get a good hour or so in last weekend. What do you do when you have completely lost interest? Is it just a phase? And it's not that this particular project is boring...I can't muster enthusiasm for anything yarn-centric right now. (Except for wearing it, ha.)

There is hope yet, variagated yarn!

To go with my ridiculous choice of yarn I decided to choose an equally ridiculous pattern. Why is it ridiculous? There are so many reasons. But why bother with details.

Take a look:

to DIE for

Obviously, I'm not going to be duplicating this disgustingly gorgeous, gorgeous photo. But doesn't mean I can't have fun.

Bonus perk is it calls for a silk and a kid mohair to be worked together - so perhaps this is my chance to bring calm to the impending color nausea? Or it could make it worse. That's the gamble :) and the fun. Will definitely be buying a neutral companion yarn...can you imagine? Two different color schemes battling it out? YUCK.

This is the yarn I'm starting off with - Schaefer Yarn Andrea in Catherine the Great:

not my picture but EXACTLY what my wound skein looks like

Perks:
The pattern is free and extremely easy to memorize. Low-impact where-ever possible! That's how you set yourself up for success.

PS - just learned that this colorway exists in the same yarn. Love! Must! Stop! Myself!

also called catherine the great? confuzzled.