Day seven: 3rd April. Your knitting and crochet time.

Write about your typical crafting time. When it is that you are likely to craft – alone or in more social environments, when watching TV or whilst taking bus journeys. What items do you like to surround yourself with whilst you twirl your hook like a majorette’s baton or work those needles like a skilled set of samurai swords. Do you always have snacks to hand, or are you a strictly ‘no crumbs near my yarn!’ kind of knitter.

This one really amused me for some odd reason.  I don't think I have a typical time.  Knitting has been a part of my life for so long that it is just an extension of me.  I have knitting with me at all times.  A project at work, one that I grab when ever I get in the car.  And then the ones that are on the end table in the living room and in my project bag.

At any given moment there are at least five active projects just to cover all the spaces that need one.  I almost always have socks on needles and a shawl or shawlette.  The rest range on what "bug" has bitten me at that given moment.  Sometimes the bug is caused by a yarn that comes in a swap.

Case in point, the Cheshire Cat scarf and now the Multnomah that I cast on Thursday while at USS with Jordan and Clarice.  The Cheshire Cat scarf was my go to project when SF and I went to Knoxville.  I wanted to showcase the beautiful yarn that Amy had made for me and the scarf was the answer.  I can't wait to wear it.  The Multnomah was the same.  I knew as soon as I received the yarn in the swap that I wanted to make a shawl/shawlette with it.

I take knitting with me when I go to the Hobbit to see Megan, so I do knit with food and drink near me.  There are several of the staff there that knit and they are all new knitters.  They have lots of questions and I find myself bringing some standby Red Heart to show them how to do something when they ask.  They all love the projects I bring and they love it when Megan wears something I made.

When I am at home, I typically knit in the same spot on the couch with SF while we watch sports.  I will admit that I don't usually work on anything too complicated for some sporting events because I know that just watching the event will cause me enough stress.  SF is amazed that I can knit and watch TV at the same time.  I just smile and keep going.

What a Yarn

Today's topic: There’s one love that we all share: yarn. Blog about a particular yarn you have used in the past or own in your stash, or perhaps one that you covet from afar. If it is a yarn you have used you could show the project that you used it for, perhaps writing a mini ‘review’. Perhaps, instead, you pine for the feel of the almost mythical qiviut? You could explore and research the raw material and manufacturing process if you were feeling investigative.

For this one I will go to a yarn that I have always wanted to knit with. I have one skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock. It is a beautiful colorway appropriately named Midsummers Night. As soon as I received it in a swap I knew it needed a special pattern. I think that I will be transformed into a shawl or wrap very soon, as I think it may just be the piece that will help me get motivated to pick out my 30th reunion outfit.

Looking at their web site, I also want to obtain yarns from the Raven Clan colorway. They seem to call to me each and every time I visit the web site. I still haven't been able to single out a particular color, but I am getting closer.

What about your yarn weakness....pray tell...what may it be?