Stephen West makes my favorite shawls and knits. They're so pretty and I am incredibly jealous/in awe of his ability. I want to make fabulous things, too, damn it!
;-)
That said, I'm working through the Daybreak shawl, which would have taken me much less time if I had an attention span or endless time. Alas, I have neither, so I'm still working on the rows of stripes. I have four more stripes in each color (so that's 16 more rows) and then I get to do 4 rows 7 times (so another 28) and I can bind off and be finished. I am excited. It will be done in perfect timing with the weather change locally!
That said, I am going to work the Boneyard shawl next, but what I'm actually writing about today is not my man-crush on Stephen, but instead, my desire for more yarn.
As noted in a previous entry: private college + not full-time + undervalued employment = No money. No money + expensive yarn tastes = no yarn.
What makes this a problem? I am in short supply of things to do with the little yarn I have. Sure, it seems like a lot, and I could probably crank out soot sprite like they're going out of style, but I won't really be doing that any time soon, because they require stuffing, which I also don't have right now.
That aside, and for as much as I like knitting toys, I am on a big clothing kick. I really want to knit a sweater, but it would be for me and the amount of yarn required is prohibitively expensive for the things I want to make, so sweaters and cardigans have to wait.
Want. MALABRIGO!!
We all want the Malabrigo! The only M I have ever knit with I won in a contest on Fiber Beat. . .sigh!
ReplyDeleteSo true! I love the stuff and I splurged like mad when I first started buying. I also got really lucky last Christmas and my sister-in-law-via-Jason gave me like...four skeins of the stuff! But they're all individual so now the problem because either ordering more or making creative use out of the one-skeins I have.
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