Pilgrimage to Mecca
So on our way home from a wonderful New Year's weekend in Bar Harbor, ME, Howie and I stopped at our local knitting Mecca. I've lived within 40 miles of Halcyon Yarn for about 10 years and have never been there. Not until last week anyway. So I was drooling over the shelves upon shelves of yarn, deciding exactly what I would buy that I really didn't need but had to have, and Howie saw a cool knitted rug right next to stacks upon stacks of rug wool. Why don't you knit a rug for our new bathroom? he says. Sounds boring, expensive and nothing I can wear, I thought. But he prevailed, laying the rug down on the floor, taking off his shoes and socks, and determining that he would love to step out of the shower and onto THIS rug. So $95.00 worth of supplies later, this is what I have so far:
Notice the US size 13 circulars, three ply extra thick wool, three balls being worked at once. This is tough on the hands. I can only knit about 4 or 5 rows then have to stop for a rest. But it does work up pretty darn fast, being that the guage is 1.5 stitches to the inch!
I figured Moebius should be in one of the pictures too since he was lurking outside the bathroom door during the photo shoot.
So I'm working my Jaywalkers on US 1's and my rug on US 13's. Macro and Micro knitting for sure!
The good news on the rug wool purchase is that I'm making it 18" wide instead of 24", so I will end up making it a little shorter than the 36" called for in the pattern and I will be able to return at least 4 or 5 skeins. They probably only take store credit so I'll have to buy something else instead :-)
