Monday, January 01, 2007

ciao, kiddo!

i <3 skype. i just called wendy with the skype out function [2 cents a minute to italy? are you KIDDING ME?] and got to talk to kiddo.

for kiddo, this little bunny says hi:

we picked him up in cozumel. he was the only lime green bunny in a sea of pink and red and blue bunnies. he wanted to live in canada, but he waves hello to italia!

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are you afeard for the status of my Americo wrap? do not be afeard.



you see how little is left after all this knitting [an afternoon's worth]. what will it be? no idea.


i envision it as a big shoulder-loving wrap, but with only three skeins of this stuff, i might be dreaming. what i think i will do is just keep on knitting. at certain points, i will wrap the thing around me and decide if it wants to be some kind of pinnable neck wrappy thing instead. or if i am insane and it should just be a scarf [but that doesn't seem right. it's too lush to be so small.]

if need be, the store will reopen in a day or so and i will be back, debit card in hand, to get more supplies so i can knit the world's coziest wrap. yummy.

[stitch: barbara walker's twin rib]

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also, there is still no snow here. or in norway, a friend tells me. listen to al gore, people. he's not making it up.

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one more thing. i have 4 balls of this stuff that i want to give to someone who will do something amazing with it.

by amazing, i don't mean throwing it in the garbage [i can do that myself :-)] or wrapping their dog.

i mean turning this raw-meat yarn into what it was meant to be, whether horrible or spectactular.

write me in the comments below. best answer gets the yarn.

[what? no year-end what-i-knit wrapup post? are you kidding? i knit raw meat. time to move on to new, fresh stuff!]

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also, will someone please invent a moo card frame? one where it has slots for the cards and you can add them as you collect them, move them around, etc. someone?

Comments:
Happy New Year, Amy!
You know what? I think "this stuff" just needs a little more drama. Don't look at me like that. I'm serious. How about a wrap in "the stuff" and one of the darker shades as a solid colour - or black, if all else fails. Maybe simple ribbon yarn to carry off the larger needle size, although I'd go down a couple of sizes, I think. Striped lengthwise and maybe rhinestoned on the solid parts. (Rhinestoned is SO a verb.) Or maybe a slip stitch pattern between the stripes to create a bit of a transition.
I don't know, maybe I'm less rhine and more stoned right now, but I can actually see "stuff" potential. :o)
 
Beautiful knitting and wonderful colour...I'm sure it'll tell you what it wants to be! HAPPY 2007!
 
I think that "yarn" really wants to be a bag of some kind. I would need to actually fondle the stuff to figure out whether it would be a decorative or work-horse type bag. But definitely a bag.
 
What about wrapping my cat then? No? S'ok. I'm still pretty much wondering what possesed you to pick the stuff up in the first place. Raw meat indeed.

Anythehoo, Happy New Year!
 
for me, that yarn would become a fabulous and flirty scarf that would then be given to some amazing woman fighting through breast cancer, as do so many other amazing skeins of yarn just like it! my mom and i knit and knit scarves out of yarn just like it, and the women in the chemo treatment center by her house love them!!!
 
Only a Canadian would think Al Gore was anything but a delusional idiot. It was a nice knitting blog while it lasted. I get enough political rhetoric in real life, thank you very much.
 
well shoot. then I need to move to Canada, 'cause I think Al is pretty darn smart. Boring maybe, but smart. Sorry, no ideas for the meat yarn...never liked the stuff myself.
 
The snow's not gone... it's just all here this year.
 
That "yarn" wants to be a scribble knit shawl...with very fine black thread...
 
We in Denver took your snow - you can have it back.
 
Okay, at the county library where I am temping, we have a big doorway -- 6-7 feet wide, ~10 feet high -- between the main, public part of the library and the back room. This space was NOT purpose-built as a library, nor did the county spend any money to make it suitable other than moving the shelving and furniture from the old space. In spite of the "Library staff only" signs we put up, patrons keep wandering through that huge open doorway into the back room.

I would use your meat yarn to make a see-through curtain between the two rooms. I think I'd macrame the top 3 feet or so, then let the strands hang below like a bead curtain. I'd put some heavy-ish beads at the bottom to weight it a bit so it would hang nicely. The library director is a crafty, anything-goes kind of person; I think she would consider this a hoot.
 
This is my first time posting, and this might be kinda longish, so I apologize in advance; blame it on the "raw meat" yarn. Am I correct in surmising that it's stripped fabric? Maybe not.

Anyhow, I'm currently studying to become a surface designer. What's a surface designer you ask? Well, they're the fine folks who design everything from your shower curtain to the fabric your favorite blouse is made from.

I've been collecting ugly fabrics, because when I graduate I plan to present each of my fellow graduates with a little tongue-in-cheek book with a few examples of what "NOT" to do. One of my "ugly" fabrics is in a colorway that makes you wonder who forgot to flush, and have they seen a doctor for their condition yet? Another "ugly" fabric features little flowers, but due to the combination of colors and the shape of the flowers, they look more like nipples! Seriously.

So if you sent me the "raw meat" yarn, I'd include it in my little books as little knitted samples, and maybe we could avert such tragic "color conspiracies" (to paraphrase Groucho Marx) in the future!
 
In my hands, the "meat" yarn would become over-the-top leg warmers. Muckluck inspired furry beasts that would chase the dull outta a black winter coat. Oh! and a matching muff!
 
P.S. I love your green bunny.
 
It's so obvious! Let the yarn be it's true nature--entrails! Yes, I see a beautiful chunky knit sweater, perhaps a dark blue or black, with intarsia human offal pouring out of various wounds in intestinal area.

There's punk knitting, subversive knitting, goth knitting... why not horror/gore knitting?
 
The Americo wrap (I think it should be a wrap) looks great.
As for the "fun" fur......, can you say accessories. I have some *ahem* wool that will be a felted wallet to fit my new Armadillo purse I got for Christmas. The wallet needs a fur trim. My girls also need elf slippers with that around the top.
 
obviously it captured your eye on some level and i will trust there were reasons. my .o2: yarns like this aren't really best suited to knitting proper because you actually want to see the colorshifts and complexity of the yarn.
but they can look great woven into dropped stitches (on say a black or pearly grey background [see frankenknits]) or very dramatic fringe on something that needs *very dramatic* fringe. if you actually want to knit it, then extraordinarily long stitches -- like quadruple yarnovers -- may be the only remedy.

really, honestly, you should have used it as your "signature" gift wrapping ribbon this year, but it's maybe too late for that.
 
must
 
have
 
flat
 
boots
 
Hi Rachel H.
 
It's very obviously meant to be a Carmen Miranda-style head adornment, perched precariously atop one's head. Two's heads, if there's enough yarn! A co-hat! Yes. See? Seriously, it's so clear to me now. I'd totally do that. A co-hat.
Happy New Year, Amy!
 
i would use this in a chevron style scarf with a mix of a finer silk yarn not ribbon something more elastic....
 
What's wrong w/ this yarn?
I like it.
:)~
 
I have a 4 year old grandson who LOVES yarn and thinks I can knit or crochet anything in the world. I would make him an adorable stuffed monster to cuddle and hug! He loves monsters (and jellyfish). I crocheted him a monster jellyfish and he has it hanging from the ceiling in his bedroom. I have no blog or web page yet (next on my agenda), but I have email. cherjuhl@comcast.net.
 
Amy blog about whatever you want to blog about. Knitting Hedgehog was rude, arrogant, presumptuous and factually incorrect. Jennifer in Oak Park
 
oooh, moo cards. I think maybe they're too small to display on a wall, better to put 4 or 5 together on the fridge like a fridge magnet. I keep my little stack of 20 free moos in the cute little card they came in, and pull them out occasionally to ooh (or is that moo?) over them.
 
The only thing I can think of the meat yarn is attaching it to a denim skirt at the hem and perhaps the collar and cuffs of a denim jacket.
 
Is this stuff gone yet? Call me crazy, but I'm picturing an a-line skirt that is knit vertically with another yarn, probably steel grey. I really don't see what is wrong with this yarn, as long as it is used mainly as an accent.
 
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