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Buffy, here I am doing a little gardening in my Kaffe Long Leaf Coat — well, knitting in the garden. One must "make progress daily" on a Kaffe project!
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Long Leaf Coat--off the needles, into the garden!
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You are so funny and QUICK! Made my day and made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteIt looks as though you've been tearing your hair out, though. Are you planning to use it as roving? hahahah yes I know it's supposed to be yarn.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stef. Your pattern is the best--wall art, garden art -- and it's certainly easier for me to read and not get lost (or go cross-eyed!) I'm sending you a lot of maple syrup! My gift back to you!
ReplyDeleteI surely will if you appear at my door's step that way!
ReplyDeleteThis is a link to the yarn I use most to blend. It says heavy worsted-- not! Very nice to cuddle yarn. http://www.fabric.com/knitting-crochet-yarn-nashua-yarns-nashua-geologie-yarn.aspx
ReplyDeleteWell. Your idea of felting yarn ends is brilliant and my guilt complex about finishing is gone. I've ended up leaving the first tie of the knot in place, "weaving in" 3 or so stitches each side of the join, and then felting horizontally across the purl bumps instead of up and down. You can trim the ends really closely and in effect the join becomes invisible. I pulled and prodded and stretched quite a bit and it all stayed in place.
ReplyDeleteI also have to report success in the original "rolling between the fingers felting" job I did on the original knots I started out using. Great success. REALLY GREAT SUCCESS. Really GREAT. It's taking me forever to untie and re-do those little suckers.
I'm finally back to where I was before I frogged. Whew! I did discover, though, that one big problem with my dislike of my own color choices is that I just don't care for solid blocks of one color combination, at least in this pattern. So I've taken to throwing in a row or so of a different color, meaning three yarns for a short space.