I have been motoring away at my various knitting projects, which based on the current crammed state of my bag are exploding.
Seriously exploding.
For some reason, this year seems to be scarf year for Dulaan. Last year I made a lot of hats, and while I have a couple of hats this time around I have (mentally counts...) six finished scarves and three more on the needles. I was also thinking of pulling some of my yarn out and doing a crocheted scarf. What is with the scarves already!?
Actually, I know what most of it is. Most of the scarves are cabled. These are cables and interesting ribs from sweater patterns that I wanted to try out and make sure were not too hard before I thought about knitting an entire sweater with them. I have The Pleasures of Knitting, and there are a couple of busily cabled sweaters that aren't too over the top (ignoring the one that makes a relatively petite woman look like a linebacker). I did the cabled diamond with seed stitch for one scarf and that came out really well. I have started another scarf using the cabled pattern in Samus, that I plan to border with the attached icord. It's like scarves as teaching tools, and I am continually improving my self-taught-i-tood.
Now, if I can only finish the second pair of Dulaan socks and the random vest that I started last year (my bad), then I will have a sizeable mailing. Time to bring a box home from work to start packing and cataloging the offerings.
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