Thursday, December 14, 2006

Cookies and Stripes

I'm into cookie mode. I made about 6 dozen sugar cookies last night. This is how my kitchen looked at about 11 pm:



Here's a closer view of some of my favorites:



As for yarn related content: I've been trying to make my piles of crappy acrylic into something useful, if not beautiful. Several of the large skeins of it I had, were given to me by well meaning people. There was no real way to put these colors together harmoniously. I decided to use the Fibonacci sequence for the stripes and see if the natural order of those might bring the colors together somehow. Here's how far I've gotten:



I'll wait a moment while your eyes recover.

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Better yet?

I would have it finished by now, except I ran out of the really radical 80's teal. Not really ran out, I guess, but I don't think there is enough left to make 8 rows. I will not compromise on this pattern, so I've gone in search of teal acrylic yarn. And you know what? I can't find the stuff anywhere. I've been to 2 stores (big box type) and NONE. This stuff used to be everywhere. Once again, I hate buying the yarn I'm actually trying to bust. Here's the innocent little ball mocking me.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the blankie. The colors don't hurt, at least in the picture. They look very festive.

Anonymous said...

I love that blanket. I am a huge yarn snob but at least you're making something great from that crap. What would happen if you just bound off now?

I did not wash the sari silk. I'm just weaving off of the skein the way it came. I hated it when I knit with it but I think this is beautiful and I probably have enough to make a shawl after I'm finished these two scarves.
Stay tuned.

Anonymous said...

I like the blanket too :) So far, I haven't been able to come up with any ideas for the yarn I have that no longer inspires me.

The cookies look great - I love the snowflake!

Anonymous said...

Wow, how many cookies! I am too lazy for that, plus my oven is disaster for cookies, cakes,... so I have an excuse!
You are funny - love those blanks to leave space for our eyes! But I love bright coloures - therefore love your blankie!