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Knitting and Stash Poll
Mar. 24th, 2013 08:41 amSo, I sat down and entered all my needles and most of my stash into the KnitKeeper app last night and started to plan my next set of projects.
...and realized that I have at least a blanket's worth of 4 different kinds of yarn and none of them right for the project I want to start.
*heavy sigh*
What I want to do is knit up a bunch of Holynarf's Doctor Who patterns sample Dalek here interspersed with texturised versions of the Sherlock-based patterns in the Sherlock blanket KAL on Ravelry. With maybe the Harry Potter Golden Snitch washcloth in there and whatever other fandom I can stick in. The idea is to crank out a load of these washcloths and use them as afghan blocks, possibly interspersed with "this looks like a fun stitch to do" blocks.
Another project I was going to do was another mitered square throw in shades of brown and cream, fixing the mistakes from the first one.
Now. I can:
Combine the two projects and do an entire quilt in shades of brown and cream and leave it to people to subtly notice that the couch -- or my bed -- says "I heart heart DW" and "I am SHER locked." My only option for this is Remix, which pills but is otherwise nice on the needles and very toasty warm.
Do a subtly more colorful remix version, using cream, denim and dark blue, dove and dark grey, and maybe some tan. This will also be warm. The downsides here aside from the pilling are that those colors clash a bit with the brown-black-tan living room. It would leave enough for the brown and cream throw but would mean giving up the idea of doing anything else with the blues and the greys, and I currently have enough of both to make a cardigan. (Not that I've ever made a cardigan. With careful management, though, I might have enough left to make a blue shawl and a grey shawl.)
I could do it in the bazillions of skeins of cotton classic I've got lying around. That would be portable, beautifully parrot-colored, and I could even work on such a light yarn all summer long. But that's the inherent problem as well - the yarn is so light that any blanket made from it would be as warm as an air conditioner.
There is a sort of middle ground. I seem to have enough Pima Tencel - a slightly warmer yarn - to do it in. But that 1) means I can't do the projects I was considering for that yarn and 2) the colors are all very pale and summerlike. Do I really want to put in the effort to make a peach-colored dalek?
[Poll #1904004]
...and realized that I have at least a blanket's worth of 4 different kinds of yarn and none of them right for the project I want to start.
*heavy sigh*
What I want to do is knit up a bunch of Holynarf's Doctor Who patterns sample Dalek here interspersed with texturised versions of the Sherlock-based patterns in the Sherlock blanket KAL on Ravelry. With maybe the Harry Potter Golden Snitch washcloth in there and whatever other fandom I can stick in. The idea is to crank out a load of these washcloths and use them as afghan blocks, possibly interspersed with "this looks like a fun stitch to do" blocks.
Another project I was going to do was another mitered square throw in shades of brown and cream, fixing the mistakes from the first one.
Now. I can:
Combine the two projects and do an entire quilt in shades of brown and cream and leave it to people to subtly notice that the couch -- or my bed -- says "I heart heart DW" and "I am SHER locked." My only option for this is Remix, which pills but is otherwise nice on the needles and very toasty warm.
Do a subtly more colorful remix version, using cream, denim and dark blue, dove and dark grey, and maybe some tan. This will also be warm. The downsides here aside from the pilling are that those colors clash a bit with the brown-black-tan living room. It would leave enough for the brown and cream throw but would mean giving up the idea of doing anything else with the blues and the greys, and I currently have enough of both to make a cardigan. (Not that I've ever made a cardigan. With careful management, though, I might have enough left to make a blue shawl and a grey shawl.)
I could do it in the bazillions of skeins of cotton classic I've got lying around. That would be portable, beautifully parrot-colored, and I could even work on such a light yarn all summer long. But that's the inherent problem as well - the yarn is so light that any blanket made from it would be as warm as an air conditioner.
There is a sort of middle ground. I seem to have enough Pima Tencel - a slightly warmer yarn - to do it in. But that 1) means I can't do the projects I was considering for that yarn and 2) the colors are all very pale and summerlike. Do I really want to put in the effort to make a peach-colored dalek?
[Poll #1904004]
