During my time away from the shoppe the weather hadn't been co-operative for pursuits of indulging in a few adventures out-of-doors. The freezing rainy weather of the weekend prior shortened my watching and enjoying the Pond Hockey tournament at Lake Nokomis. Following our bout with the storm was a week of rather chilly temperatures, but, this didn't deter me from taking walks along the Minnehaha Creek Parkway, or from enjoying a few hours of sledding in Minnehaha Park.
With the majority of my time being spent indoors, I indulged in a few activities that bring me joy. I baked quite a few cookies, along with loaves of fruit breads, banana being the primary among them.
My endeavors in the genealogy research was greatly enhanced by continuing to sort through the boxes of photographs and documents that I'd inherited (for some odd reason I'd been deemed the family historian). Though advances were achieved, there still remains quite a sum yet to be discovered. Of the photographs reviewed there are quite a few that are a mystery as to the identity of the individuals.
I continued, as well, to rummage through the last remaining containers of yarn that had been in the wardrobe and forgotten over time. Did I mention that I also spent some time going through and cleaning a couple of locations in the house that had been ignored during the weekly cleaning process? I figured this would be as good a time as any to get a jump start on the Spring cleaning.
The rediscovery of the yarns lead to the casting on of two additional scarves. I decided to use the same pattern as was used for the Moose Creek Scarf, a simple 2X2 rib in the body of the scarf and the borders of the scarf over the first and last 4 stitches a 1X1 ribbing on size 2.75mm (US 2) needles. Thank goodness for extra sets of needles!
I present to you the first cast on, a lovely yarn from Mountain Colors named Red Tail Hawk from the Barefoot line. The fibre of this yarn consists of 60% superwash wool, 25% mohair, and 15% nylon of a sock weight in skeins of 100 grams each. I have two skeins of this yarn which should be sufficient to achieve a width of 6.5 inches and an approximate length of 72 inches, along with fringe of 7.5 inches for a total length of about 87 inches.
The deep rich hues of browns and rusts of this yarn will co-ordinate quite well with another project (a cardigan sweater) that is on my to-do-list.
The second cast on is a delicious yarn from Koigu from their line of KPPPM (Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino) in the dye code of P714 from dye lot 190. The fibre of this yarn consists of 100% merino wool of a sock weight in skeins of 50 grams each.
For this project I cast on 56 stitches onto size 2.75mm (US 2) needles. The final length of the scarf will be determined by the yarn. Though I've not designated this scarf to be a co-ordinate for any particular item, the lovely rainbow of gentle colours on a base of taupe, it'll sweetly compliment most of the sweaters already completed and with others yet in the planning stages.
The scarf below was started on 29 June 2009, but, I'd not spent much time working on it aside from using it as a between projects knit and as an occasional travel project. The yarn is another from Mountain Colors in the colourway named Glacier Teal also from the Barefoot line. The fibre of the yarn consists of 60% superwash wool, 25% mohair, and 15% nylon of a sock weight in skeins of 100 grams. Here too I have two skeins and have been following the same pattern as the Moose Creek Scarf.
The gorgeous colours of this yarn has held me captive for quite some time, and will be a delightful addition to the chilly weather wardrobe.
As to the frogging, as listed in the title of this entry, the Mercury Scarf didn't survive past knitting of 8 inches. I wasn't particularly thrilled with the fabric being achieved and thus frogged it, and have designated it to be used in another project still being designed - a simple shawl.
I, as well, completed more hats and scarves that have been donated and delivered. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten to photograph them before they left the premises.
On the hooks, but not yet ready for their debut, are two of the bears from the Yarn Gang booklet "I'm an Animal" mentioned in my post titled Huggable. I've opted to use the Red Heart Super Saver yarn that I have in the stash and that hadn't been assigned to a project. I've been enjoying immensely working on these, and am looking forward to the progression into the assembly process.
