Yarnivorous

G'day all! Hooray for me! I have made Stuff! I have used Stash! First up, let's show off the Blanket, aka the Jedi Jacket. This was a very simple knit - all garter stitch with increases or decreases done at one or two edges. It is asymmetric. I used a pattern from Patons Oz - details somewhere down the page, feeling lazy no link. The book is discontinued. (*puts on cowboy boots, a western drawl and swagger*) This blanket ain't big enough fer the two erv us! The yarn is a recycled wool/cashmere jumper bought at a thrift shop in Fort Collins. The jumper was a *very* odd shape - the arms were longer than mine and the body narrower, like it was made for someone who had been on the rack. All the ribbed bits were darker wool - now they are stripes. So you get some random views: It even acts as a head shawl: I have plans to overdye the jacket eventually. If it works, it will be Very Cool Indeed. It is a very versatile piece - I can wear it upside down! And if it is cold an...

G'day all! I have a number of projects on the boil at the moment. Ages ago, at the Stitches and Craft Fair in Melbourne nearly 12 months ago (feels like a different life and I guess it was!) I saw a fabulous jacket, all garter stitch knitted up in Noro silk garden I think (I remember it having more silk garden type yarn than kureyon). It was asymmetric and made me think of Jedis. Well I Had To Have One For Me! And I hunted down the book - I had to drive all over town cos the book was discontinued. And there was much rejoicing cos I had driven about 150km to find this danged book, and I got it for about 50c! Hooray! Then I discovered I had already bought it three months earlier at a Christmas sale at my LYS. Ooops. I've remembered that jacket/wrap thing for some time and finally I had the yarn for it - a cashmere/wool blend from a thrift store jumper I unravelled. The yarn is all in greys but I can overdye it. I have some very nifty ideas about how to do that too. (I doubt...