Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Day The Seventh.

What a Yarn
There’s one love that we all share: yarn. Blog about a particular yarn you have used in the past or own in your stash, or perhaps one that you covet from afar. If it is a yarn you have used you could show the project that you used it for, perhaps writing a mini ‘review’. Perhaps, instead, you pine for the feel of the almost mythical qiviut? You could explore and research the raw material and manufacturing process if you were feeling investigative.

You guys all know what's coming, right?

Red Heart Super Saver, bitches.

Much maligned, but never equaled.
It's bright, it's useful, it lasts and lasts, it's washable, it's colorful, it's pretty, it's cheap, and I fucking love it. Throw all your Malabrigo at me (um, please?), buy me a rainbow of Wollmeise (again... really, please?), but I will NEVER trade any of my RHSS for all the it-yarn in the world.

You will have to pry my Super Saver from my cold, dead hands.

I make beautiful things with it, I make useful things with it, I make fun things with it, I make cute things with it, I make elegant things with it, I make ridiculous things with it, I make cherished gifts with it.
I WILL FUCKING MELT YOUR BABIES WITH IT, DON'T TEST ME.
It is the best there is, and there is no substitute.

Even the world's finest horse race knows it.

Suck on it, yarn snobs.

Here is a small sampling of some of my favorite RHSS projects.

Also today I have new hair.

Delirium would knit with Super Saver. And little froggies.

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Day The Sixth.

Revisit a past F/O
Bring the fortune and life of a past finished project up to the present. Document the current state and use of an object you have knitted or crocheted, whether it is the hat your sister wears to school almost every day, or a pair of socks you wore until they were full of holes. Or maybe that jumper that you  just didn’t like that much…

Photo links to Rav project page. Sorry, muggles. (Ugh. I can't believe I said that. I despise the use of that term to mean non-fiber-crafters. Apologies.)

Rainbow Brite's Horse's Afterbirth On My Head.
Started and finished November 22, 2008.
My husband wears this. I'm serious. Never out of the house, sure, but he actually wears it rather a lot, when sitting on the couch. It feels nice, apparently. And the cat really, really likes it. She kneads at it and purrrrrrs up a storm.
HAAA!!! He just saw I was writing this, went "Where is my hat?"... started flailing around the couch cushions looking for it, found it, put it on, got up to walk into the kitchen, and I totally grabbed this photo.

Now he is literally sputtering with frustration at me. He knows I am going to put it on the internet and everyone will laugh at him. He is very red, face-wise. HEEEEEE!!!!!

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Day The Fifth.

HOLY SHIT, I ALMOST FORGOT.
Er.... technically, as it's 12 past midnight, I *did* forget today. :(
Oh well. It's still Day 5 somewhere!

Location, Location, Location
Where do you like to indulge in your craft? Is your favourite arm chair your little knitting cubby area, or do you prefer to ‘knit in public’? Do you liek to crochet in the great outdoors, perhaps, or knit in the bath, or at the pub?

Mostly I knit on the couch. We have a teeeeeeny tiny little house so *all* my knitting stuff lives on and around the couch. It's kind of horrible and disorganized, but hey... it's convenient to where my ass is parked all day.

I almost always have a project with me when I go out somewhere, so I do a fair amount of knitting & crocheting in public. Quite a lot at pubs, actually...

Doctors' waiting rooms, other people's houses, in the car, on planes, in bed, before movies start.... you know. Basically everywhere.

But yeah. Mostly the couch. Which has a name, by the way. She is called Lovely Sophie.

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Day The Fourth.

A New Skill
Is there a skill related to your hobby that you hope to learn one day? maybe you’re a crocheter who’d also like to knit? Maybe you’d like to learn to knit continental, knit backwards, try cables or attempt stranded colourwork.

Damn. Aren't y'all glad those're fading out of vogue on most websites? Ugh. Anyway, my point is, I WANT TO SPIN.

I have a drop spindle. I've used it a couplefew times... One of these times was not too disastrous:

But I have issues (obviously) with evenness. And it's also just really hard to do with my cat around. My house doesn't have doors inside. I can't separate myself from her at all, and she really, REALLY enjoys it when I attempt to spin.

I tried knitting with that lovely rainbowcandyfluff alongside some of the pooptastic yarn from my first spinning attempt recently. I kind of aborted the attempt, and I'm really not sure why. There's just... so much less of it than I'd like, and it's so dense and inelegant. It depressed me, as exciting as it had seemed at the outset.

I want a wheel. I want ROOM for a wheel. I want to get better at this so knitting with my own creations doesn't depress me. It should thrill me.

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Day The Second.

An Inspirational Pattern
Blog about a pattern or project which you aspire to. Whether it happens to be because the skills needed are ones which you have not yet acquired, or just because it seems like a huge undertaking of time and dedication, most people feel they still have something to aspire to in their craft. If you don’t feel like you have any left of the mountain of learning yet to climb, say so!

Pretty much all of my out-of-reach pattern aspirations are completely down to the yarn for which I simply don't have the money and resources. I want to make so many sweaters, coats, dresses, skirts, etc. But because of my financial situation, I pretty much only make 1-or-2-skein accessories. I want GARMENTS, dammit. The pinnacle of out-of-my-league, the thing that sums up my wistful need for knitting proper clothes, is this:

Can you imagine???
I couldn't even ever afford to do that in Red Heart, let alone the Blue Sky Alpaca Silk it deserves.