No movies this week! But I’ve finished and mailed a few things including:

This striped scarf is intended for a good friend in Montreal, who I’ve kept in touch with thanks to the power of the internoot.

Yarn: Noro Kureyon, two different colourways (one browny, and one cheery ball)

Pattern: Just a k3p1/p3k1 repeat, and switching balls every two rows. It was kind of curling up on me big time, until I blocked it! Yay! I think I might have preferred the mistake rib version I saw in Last Minute Knitted gifts, but I started this before I saw that.

I also finished today a christmas gift:

Yarn: Mission Falls 1824 Cotton doubled up.

Pattern: Home Debbie Bliss book.

It was a great way to get rid of the stray ball of yarn I wasn’t sure what to do with in my stash. I have barely any of the ball left over. Maybe enough for a finger puppet. I’m pairing this washcloth with a little soap I found in Aix-en-Provence in October for a cute little gift.

While I was making cookies today, I was inspired to see what I can do to Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora and my Cascade 220 with KoolAid:

What do we have here? I took some Cascade 220 in a heathered green and tried to dye it with green & icy blue kool-aid. (That’s the top row). Then I also took some Debbie Bliss cotton Angora and tried with green, icy blue & cherry kool-aid.

I wasn’t sure the cotton angora would do anything as I understood cotton wasn’t supposed to dye well with kool-aid, but the angora really helped out here. When I look closely I can see the lighter fibers, which I can only assume is the cotton. I only tried short little pieces of yarn, and they unravelled a bit after being microwaved. I’m a bit concerned dying a whole ball might wreck it? I might just go for it. I want to make the wine & roses handwarmers, and I’m thinking of the light blue or limey green.

Also have two new skeins of merino to make endpaper mitts when I’m done all these christmas presents and my phildar sweater!

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