I asked a co-worker to take a picture of these for me because my camera is AWOL. I had no idea my arms would look so dorky like that. Pretend my arms are cool.
I managed to finish my sister's Voodoo Wrist Warmers just in time for Christmas. We were supposed to eat at 6pm Christmas Eve then open presents after. I finished at 5:47pm and got to my parents about 6:30.
I used Karokee for these and they are so soft. The half inch near the elbows is 2x2 rib and then I said, "FUCK this" because I hate ribbing and switched to 3x1. That bottom part poofs out a little and I wish I'd done them all 3x1. The other thing that irks me is on the first one the pink section isn't solid pink, it's mottled with blues. None of the pink in the rest of that skein or the entire second skein (and I unwrapped them both completely) was like that. I was already up to the pink section of the second one when I discovered it so there wasn't much I could do.
The best reaction so far was from a girl my sister and I both work with at our nighttime job. She asked me how much I would charge for a pair and then ordered just one. Apparently her right hand gets cold at work when she uses the mouse so she only needs one and doesn't want to waste her money. I found it hard to argue with the crazy girl logic.
Right now I'm working on the Danica scarf. But instead of two colors with a few random different squares I'm matching this as a scrap buster. I'm using leftover Cascade 220 and 220 Quatro from various projects to make a random color project, like Joseph's mother and the patchwork cloak. It's an Amazing Technicolor Dream Scarf! But I want to make sure my scraps weren't all bunched together at the end or the beginning so first I made a crazy, full color chart to space them out. I planned my randomness. I think that might be a sign of mental instability. I should finish it this weekend or next at the latest, pictures to come as soon as a find my camera.
your armwarmers look great! I'm making some out of Karaoke for a friend, but haven't posted them yet, as they're 'spose to be a b-day suprise. Don't you love the softness of the yarn?!
Posted by: Tara | Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 05:17 PM