semi-annual knitting entry

[pastels_badge]

For the first time in a long time, I'm going to post about knitting. Here goes nothin

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[pastels_badge]

Yeah, sometimes you just really want a wearable blanket. Like, I think the day I decided I wanted a thick shawl I had gone to a movie during the summer, with the requisite excessive air-conditioning. When I picture enjoying such a thing I don't imagine myself outside during cold weather, but inside dealing with excessive climate control.

[pastels_badge]

Yay! I never understood why they got rid of Cotton-Ease. It was so well-loved! I'm surprised by the organic cotton thing as well, but pleasantly, of course. It's all exciting news for me, but it's even better news for vegans.

[pastels_badge]

I found the new Cotton-Ease online. I wish it came in more colors, but the ones it does come in are a bit nicer than the old ones, I think.

[14icedbear]

all good ideas, i think. i see what you mean about the shawl, but i don't think it's really such a problem that you should avoid making it. just don't necessarily wear it every single place you go once you've got it. anyway, who knows. it might not be frumpy at all in practice. i often find shawls to look kind of fashionable on the right person.

[pastels_badge]

Yeah, I know shawls work sometimes on some people, I just don't know if I have the chutzpah to pull such a thing off. I think if I was looking at knitting a wispy lace kind of shawl, like a Birch (which I'm also still thinking about in the back of my mind), that definitely wouldn't have to be terribly frumpy. I could use something like that as a scarf, pretty much. It's the heavier-weight shawl idea that I'm apprehensive about. But I still want to do it. I just like how it looks and I think it would be really comfortable and interesting. And that pattern looks like it would be an interesting thing to knit. I guess in posting about my reservations I was really just trying to get everybody to reassure me that it's ok to knit a giant heavy shawl. Now that I've gotten some positive feedback maybe I'll feel better about doing it if I decide to go through with the idea.

[lostpositive]

I like the knitty pattern too although the yarn might be hard to get hold of here.

I also second the positive shawl feedback :)

Em oxo

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Thanks for validating my shawl tendencies, snookiepants.

I bet it would be pretty easy to find another kind of yarn in the same gauge that you could use for that pattern, if you wanted. Or looking for that yarn could be your excuse for some NYC yarn-shopping in March.

[lostpositive]

Yarn shopping in NYC yay! I should try to find something in a different yarn as I didn't really like the colours of the one they used.

Em oxo