Okay, so here's the freeform I promised you, though it wasn't supposed to be freeform at all. It was supposed to be a green shrug knit with a few skeins of a beautiful green Italian polished cotton yarn I bought at a new LYS I just discovered. It was one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" things. I saw the yarn, it was on sale, I showed it to Anthony.
"Wow, that's nice," he said, "You should make yourself one of those little shoulder things, what do you call them, the ones with the short sleeves... for summer...?"
"Oh," I said, "Do you mean a shrug?"
"Yeah, I guess," he shrugged.
So I bought the yarn. When I got home, I rifled through all the patterns I had for shrugs then went online to look for more. And I guess I don't have to tell you I didn't fall in love with any of them. So I have this yarn and no pattern and all I could think of was green and purple, because I've been fixated on that colorway recently. I made up a basket of yarn and sat down. I thought of doing something modular, but the sheer effort of looking for the book and then knitting all those little squares or diamonds just gave me the willies. Though I guess it might have been fun in various weights of yarn.... but now I'll never know.
I picked up a hook instead. You can see what happened.
The other yarn I bought that day included a ball of Karabella Barbados in #544 purple/pistachio and I've been using it to crochet the rounds together. I'm going to need more, and hopefully I'll be able to find it on sale as that ball was $14.95.
So Anthony looks at my circles the other night and watches me hook them together. Finally he asks: "What are you making?"
"A wrap," I answer.
"I thought you were making a... what did you call it, a shrug?"
"Yeah, so did I."
mmmmmmmmm soft garden of warm candy!
Posted by: arlee | April 04, 2007 at 06:00 PM
Oh honey, it's dazzling. I see you are steppin' out on your old faithful orange. She's gonna start throwing things when she finds out; orange is that way, you know!
Posted by: Suzanne | April 04, 2007 at 02:44 AM
Wow, that is gorgeous!
Holly
Posted by: HollyEQQ | April 04, 2007 at 12:16 AM
We just do what the yarn tells us hehe.
Posted by: Stacie | April 03, 2007 at 05:38 PM
its looking good and I'm a firm believer that you go where the muse and the yarn take you. Look forward to seeing the finished piece
amber in scotland
Posted by: amber | April 03, 2007 at 01:03 PM
I like how the fuzzy yarn softens the hard edges of the circles, and provides a cohesiveness to the whole wrap.
Posted by: Crafting Jen | April 03, 2007 at 11:21 AM