..and a mini rant.
Perusing the upcoming patterns from Interweave, and making a list of necessities for those projects that catch my eye. This is not an unusual activity when I suffer some knitting ADD. This is a stress induced occupation, because though Ella is coming along beautifully, I am having all kinds of gauge issues with Grace. Though the swatch might have been spot on, I am finding the actually knitting of the pattern to be fairly loose and without body. My fear being that if I continue with this current gauge, I will end up with a lovely soft jacket sized stadium blanket. Very soft and warm, but no body to speak of. Have to start again. This time I will being trying US 6 on the ribbing, and US 7 on to body. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
In my wanderings, I ran across this Interweave knit project. My ADD kicked into high gear, all thought of Grace flew right out of my head and I began looking for the yarn to make these lovlies!
Mowat Mukluks Jennifer L. Appleby
Its love I tell you! Love a first site!
The six skeins of Plymouth Galway shouldn't be hard to come by, and I'm thinking that Cascade 220 would make a good substitution. Either way six skeins at $6 apiece won't be too hard to swallow. But the six skeins of Plymouth Foxy? The yummy, soft and fuzzy, but less than usually cheesy specialty yarn that retails for $27.99 a skein?!?
What's that all about?
But I just gotta have them. Have to! Any yarn subs anyone can recommend? Anyone at all?
Comments (3)
i do think the cascade 220 will sub for the galway and give you more color options. but the novelty yarn? clueless! what about that "faux furry" stuff used in knitty's vegan fox? is it a close approximation?
Posted by amanda | November 21, 2005 9:20 AM
Posted on November 21, 2005 09:20
Sorry you are having issues with Grace. Do you think it could be the yarn itself and not necessarily the gauge?
Those mukluks are pretty darn cute. Do you sew leather to the bottom of the muklucks?
Posted by Gracie | November 21, 2005 1:41 PM
Posted on November 21, 2005 13:41
I agonized when I discovered the cost of Foxy, but slept on it only one night... This morning I pulled from my stash a couple of skeins of Erdal Eyelash Tweed in color Bone-68 (bone with black for an overall medium to dark warm color.) I used this stuff last Xmas to make coonskin caps from knitty and was very happy with the fur effect. The eyelash is 3/4" to 1" long, and the tweed coloration creates a very natural depth of tone. Also, it is 100% polyester so there is no "Look at me - I'm synthetic!" shine. I don't believe it will be a ringer for real fur, but I plan to use it double and am confident that I will end up with a very attractive and affordable pair of mukluks! 80 yards=$6.90 :>) Glad you posted!
Posted by ellen | December 10, 2005 8:36 AM
Posted on December 10, 2005 08:36