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Koigu, Part Deaux

Posted on | November 11, 2006 | 2 Comments

Last night, I wanted to cast on for something new.  Yes, I know I have five items already on the needles, but I really really wanted to do something with this Koigu I bought in Memphis.

I absolutely love these colors.  This was the start of a top-down sock using my standard 72 stitch pattern, size 1 dpns.  But with Koigu?  WAAYYY too big.  So I ripped and the Koigu sat in my stash, cooling its heels.  Yesterday I thought I’d try the figure eight cast-on for toe-up socks.  Since I love this yarn so much, it was the perfect candicate for toe-ups so I could use every.last.ounce.  Yeah, not so much.  I got about 20 rows into it and decided it looked more like a nipple than a sock toe.  Pasties, anyone?  Riiiiippp.

Last night, I thought, ‘I have 350 yds.  I’ll make a scarf!’  So I started, using a simple “K1, *YO, K2tog, repeat from *” pattern I found on-line. 

Pretty, huh?  I thought so too, until it occurred to me that I JUST KNIT A SCARF THESE EXACT SAME COLORS!!!!  Exhibit A:

I see ripping in the near future.  BUT – I’m starting over because I really like this pattern and want an easy, but somewhat lacey, scarf.  I’ll still be knitting it in Koigu, but with THESE colors:

Keeping my rep intact as an Accessory Knitter.

 

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