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Thursday, July 28, 2005

"Are You Knitting a Christmas Tree?!?!?"

That is a question that I heard more than once as I worked on Juanita's scarf at work this week.  I can see why people must have thought that.  This yarn -- Bernat Disco in Jungle Jive -- is sort of a Victorian Christmas green, with some glittery strands of the same color throughout.  Although the color is hard to see in this picture, it is really very pretty.  As my friend Mechelle put it, "there is just enough sparkle to put just the right amount of glitz in the scarf without making it look too "tinselated."  (Is that a word????)  I finally decided last weekend what needles to use to knit the scarf.  I wanted  a very drapey and soft fabric, so I ended up using size 19's.  I started the scarf Sunday morning while sipping my morning tea, and by the time I had finished my second cup of tea, the scarf was half done.  Ahhh, the benefits of using telephone poles to knit with!  I took the scarf to work and finished it over the course of a couple of lunchtimes this week.  I will give it to Juanita either this afternoon or this weekend. 

The Carnival Scarf is almost finished, also.  The colors are really pretty and I think adding the fringe will really "make" this scarf, as it did in the India Sunset scarf.  Also, I arrived home from work Tuesday night to find a package from Smiley's Yarns at my door!  It was full of Patons Divine in the color Amethyst Allure.  It is for a sweater pattern that I absolutely fell in love with in the September issue of Creative Knitting magazine.  It is on page 20, and it is called Autumn Warmth.  I would love to knit this up for myself this winter.  Lately, if I don't get to knit at least a few minutes a day, I feel like I am missing something!  It really is true what they say about knitting being "Zen."  It is very relaxing to me.  Besides knitting at lunchtime every day, I also enjoy knitting for a while right before bedtime.  I used to read then, but lately knitting has been taking over.  The combination of incense burning, relaxing music playing and knitting needles clicking is irresistable!  Or should I say addictive!  Anyway, I am hooked on the experience. 

One last note -- non knitting related.  Remember the 4th Bob Ross painting class I took?  I mentioned it a few entries ago and said that I planned to give the painting to a dear friend for her birthday.  Well, yesterday I gave it to her.  She loved it!  It is a painting of the nearby Crabtree Falls in Nelson County, Virginia.  It is one of Debbie's very favorite places.  I have posted a picture of it above after Juanita's scarf. 

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