All Purpose

So I didn’t get a chance to take any pics yesterday, but hopefully today when I get home before I run to pilates.

I have 7 xmas gifts that I’m crocheting this year (2 are down, 5 to go). I’m doing a really basic scarf in double crochet (it’s a variation on the One Skien Scarf in Debbie Stoller’s Stitch n’ Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker). I’m doing a chain of 163 instead of 203 and I’m doing about 6 rows and no edging. I’m using Araucania Patagonia Nature Cotton for the yarn and I’m using almost 3 skeins on a size N hook.

I seriously love Araucania yarn. I made this scarf for myself using
#210 207 last year (I did mine the full length, but wider and no border) and I love the colors, texture of the yarn. I also picked up some Limari (#505 I think) a month ago when I was in Charleston and made a scarf of that. That is some sweet ass wool right there. It is so freaking soft and again the colors are wonderful. I will get pics of all these up soon. I think I might actually re-knit the Limari scarf only because I made it a bit too wide, we’ll see when the xmas crocheting is done.

Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed trying to pick out the perfect color combo for each person, and I bought a bonus skien of each color I got so that I can add them to my magic yarn ball which I hope to use to make something cool from either AlterKnits or Simple Knits with a Twist.

I really wish I was home crocheting and watching Weeds right now. Really.

In: crochet, work in progress | tags: Araucania, crocheting, magic yarn ball, xmas, yarn. | #