Log rolling

I was thinking about the Log Jam being broken and what do you do when you have more room? Log Rolling. Precisely. :o) The amount of relief of getting that colorwork creation off of the needles and photographed was enormous, like leaving the dentist office for the last time after all of that ugly work is finished...you know. I used to do it when I had finished the last piece in the pile for my (at that time) biggest show of the year, a pile of sweaters handknit from my own yarn...a huge accomplishment and the sign that I could go take a long weekend vacation in the mountains before tackling this show. Jumping for joy, taking deep breaths and having a clean slate, all at the same time. For someone that used to work by the seasons, starting with shearing time, this was cause for celebration. It felt a little like that yesterday, simply because what used to be joyful and easy, this inventing things on the needles, became mental defective hard. Hard because of the ways in which my brain and nervous system have been taxed for about 6 weeks now, which only allowed for the mind numbing spinning and attention to detail in the dye room while trying to imagine how to handle whatever is coming in our lives. That is why the finishing of that piece was significant for me.

That being said, by being able to relegate the remainders of the yarn that I used back to the large zip bags that hold my balls of yarn for such projects, I allowed myself to fondle the NEW yarn. Yup...I have these piles of yarn that usually don't get opened by yours truly, but yesterday was an exception. I knew that I needed to do something diametrically opposed to what had just come off the needles and so I threw these things together, saying to myself...MMMMMMMMMMMMM.

They are an orphan skein of my standard wool yarn in an old color called Blooie, a skein of the 100% Bombyx silk boucle (Tiara) in Garnet and a skein of mohair/silk boucle in the new Mardi Gras colorway. I knew that these textures and colors could live well together and so I began. Yup, I broke into my Brittany stash and pulled out a pair of 17's and cast on three stitches. I increased one stitch, one stitch from the edge on both sides, ever other row until I ended up with 96 stitches on the needles. I bound those stitches off VERY loosely and with the weight of the silk, the drape is just right. I sat this morning and added a luxurious fringe and there you have it.

Here is a little detail of what the yarns look like together.

It is joyful and fun and FAST and cushy. Perfect for yesterday afternoon.

Today, I must head out to the dye room and get some orders out. So be it.
We wait...

Comments

[CarolineF]

Wow, cool! Are you going to wear it yourself, at least for awhile? Now, I can't LIFT size 17 needles, but more power to YOU...

[Angela]

Now that is the way to keep that log jam from coming back.
I could snuggle into it from here.

[Helle From Denmark]

Ohhh...pretty! That is just what you needed....got a quick and even a very pretty thing done. That gives such a good feeling, eh??*GRIN*

[vanessa]

yummy!

[Sam]

Holy cow! What koogey beauty - and so fast! I can't even get a sweater done these days. Pass the prunes. ;-)

[AlisonH]

Sometimes you just need an instant project like that. That one's gorgeous. You could sell a whole lot of those come Labor Day, you know.

[elizabeth]

love the shawl Lisa! It doesn't have to be teeny needles to be wonderful.

[Wendy]

That is a beautiful shawl! Color and I have trouble seeing eye to eye. This is why I gave up quilting. I was always second guessing myself, and was never happy with what I chose. I would have never thought to put those yarns together. Yet you did, and the end result was stunning. Just amazing.

[marti]

ohh, the colors are so fun together!