Over The Rainbow
13 Oct 2009 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: color, mini mochi, noro, yarn
Lately I’ve become obsessed with color. A few months ago, I made a Noro striped scarf, which turned out fabulous, and after having discovered Mini Mochi at my LYS, I started making Eunny’s famous Endpaper Mitts in the Jungle colorway paired in black. The colors of both these products are amazing, and I bow down to the dyers’ genius. But.
Noro Kureyon is quite possibly the worst yarn I have ever knit with. It is poorly spun, coarse, and loaded with vegetable matter. There’s no way I would knit a shirt out of that stuff. As another knitter who has worked with it put it, it’s like “knitting with steel wool.”
When I saw the Mini Mochi, it looked more promising. It ha a nice, even thickness and was very warm and fuzzy. The problems began when I had to frog my project. The yarn almost disintegrated into an unworkable fluff. I decided to ball it and start from the other end only to discover it was knotted togeter in about three different places. I hate that; when I accidentally knot the yarn myself it’s frustrating, I don’t really need someone else to do this for me.
Despite all my complaints, I just purchased two balls of Noro Kureyon Sock to make, well, socks. Why? Because I will gladly pick out vegetable matter and work in a couple knots to make such beautiful FO’s. Maybe some other knitter are not really to work with such low quality, but I am. I mean come on, look at these.
What I’ve been doing lately.
19 Aug 2009 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: FO, knitting, noro, scarf
A knitting blog isn’t complete without update’s on the authors’ works in progress (WIP’s) or finished objects (FO’s). So here we go!
I went on a very long plane trip recently, and needed a project that was simple enough to fly without a pattern, but interesting enough to keep me, well, interested! Thankfully Ravelry came to a rescue, and after a forum post (Ravelry login required), I decided on the notorious Striped Noro Scarf, written up by BrooklynTweed himself.
Four skeins of Noro Kureyon (colors 226, 229, and 40) and many hours later, I was done and despite naysayers I proudly wear it in Hawai’i, where I live. Some photos (I apologize for the harshness of some of the stripes, I promise it’s not like that in real life)
This scarf worked up like a dream, and I had no problems taken my knitting on the plane, having done my best to comply with TSA regulations. I used size 8 bamboo circulars, and didn’t bring any scissors or other sharp implements. In fact the only grief I got were from fellow passengers, who tried to convince me that I wouldn’t need a wool scarf in Hawai’i (on a plane to the east coast).
-Purl Girl
