If you've been to enough Kindergarten recitals, you've probably heard this song. This and the chorus in Beethoven's 9th are guaranteed to bring tears to my eyes. Our music teacher always works this into the K-3 performances and the sight of all those little hands doing the gestures with great passion but totally out of sync gets me every year.
I'm gonna wrap myself in paper;
I'm gonna dab myself with glue.
Stick some stamps on top of my head;
I'm gonna mail myself to you!
When you see me in your mailbox,
cut the string and let me out.
Wipe the glue off my fingers,
and stick some bubblegum in my mouth!
So, why was I singing this song this morning? Well, while engaging a very relaxing KID FREE (school's back in session - yippee) game of Nancy the Knit Stylist (my dream career you know) I couldn't stop that song in my head and it morphed to I'm gonna wrap myself in Colinette, Rowan and Koigu...
Koigu Charlotte's Web is almost complete! Just started merging the last ball on the right. After 10 more merged rows there will be 16 rows of just the blue and then I'll be done. Of course, as many of you know, it gets much slower at the end. Not planning on doing fringe, so I still need to pick my bindoff pattern, which may add a little knit time. I'm weighing each ball after that color is done and will post my totals when finished so those of you with leftover sock yarn can see if it might work into a Charlotte somehow. I think by forgoing fringe one might get two, or at least close to two, Charlotte's out of 5 skeins.
This poor Colinette wrap has been on the needles since last spring, so I think it deserves to be finished up. I've made it my car knitting now, which should help. No pattern, I just CO a bunch of stitches on 10's and am alternating Colinette Giotto (1 hank) and Colinette Enigma (1 hank) with Classic Elite Avignon Cotton Silk (3 balls) running between each row of the Colinettes (whose name I've been misspelling with two L's all this time! Sorry, will change). It's all garter stitch and I'm just knitting until the yarn runs out. Couldn't be easier, but now I'm thinking of doing short rows to shape the shoulders so it hangs better. Can't have things too easy huh?
Cozy in Rowan Summer Tweed has not been forgotten either.
Doesn't it look nice against our spiffy new chair? Married over 8 years and we finally bought living room chairs! We agreed immediately on them and the sale was made in about 10 minutes with the kids in tow - miracles do happen!
I'm almost finished with the fifth ball with three remaining, but may stop if I feel it's gotten to a length I like. Jen on the Cozy KAL posted a photo of her Summer Tweed version using only six balls and it made a perfect shoulder wrap when fixed with a pin.
Oh heck, let's put all this talk of design aside and tell the truth - after ball six I'll stop when I'm so sick of it I can't imagine another repeat. Pathetic but true.
Jen reports that it does indeed wash to a softer hand, which I've heard elsewhere about Summer Tweed. Also planning to block it hard to bring out the pattern.
Finally, a wrap to be:
A very kind knitblogger sent this Zephyr laceweight silk/wool to me. The amazing thing is that I'd just ordered Fiber Trends' Pacific Northwest Shawl pattern. Karma? Serendipity? Athena is happy with me? All I know is that it looked so beautiful on August the orange boy lounging in the morning sun, until...
The Colinette wrap is beatiful. It's knit side-to-side, right? The green shawl you are wearing in the photo is gorgeous, too. I'm not sure which I like more.
Posted by: Colleen | April 12, 2005 at 12:28 PM
Oh Colleen, if only that was me wearing that green shawl - at this point is just a twinkle in my knitter's eye.
The Colinette is indeed knitted side-to-side.
Posted by: Nancy | April 12, 2005 at 01:59 PM
Charlotte's web is coming along beautifully! I love the colors you chose!
Posted by: Moni | April 12, 2005 at 04:19 PM
Wow, it's a Wench Wraporama! and they all look great. I've been eying up Cozy, yours looks fabulous.... so many knits...so little time.....
Posted by: sallys | April 12, 2005 at 04:57 PM
That's a wrap! Gorgeous projects!
Posted by: Julia | April 12, 2005 at 05:38 PM
Beautiful shawls and wraps - my fave is the colinette one, even though it is simple, it is just gorgeous!
Posted by: erin | April 12, 2005 at 05:58 PM
August - you naughty kitty! Although who could resist that gorgeous yarn? If someone set it on me while I was sleeping, I'd probably get a little excited too. The color you chose for Cozy is absolutely gorgeous! Such good taste - love the new chair too. And the Colinette wrap...I just love it all.
Posted by: Vicki | April 13, 2005 at 07:58 AM
I don't know that you're going to get that yarn back from the cat . . . but I hope so! It's going to look fabulous. Glad you like it!
Posted by: Deb | April 13, 2005 at 08:38 AM
Oh Dear! Bad kitty, bad, bad kitty. Love the shawls. Do you have a shawl closet? Just wondering. I really should make one shawl - FBS was just a scarf. I signed up the the Cozi KAL, but can't decide what yarn to use that is economical.
Posted by: Julia | April 13, 2005 at 11:04 AM
All your projects look great! I made a poncho thing outa' Summer Tweed, washed it, and it bled like crazy! Other than that, it did soften up a bit. Good luck.
Cute kitty!
Posted by: heather | April 13, 2005 at 02:36 PM
wow, everything looks beautiful. love the shawl. wonderful colors.
Posted by: froggy | April 13, 2005 at 06:33 PM
What beautiful wrappy goodness. :) Our kindergarten is half-day and I must say, it shows. No music, no art, no PE. It's a bit frustrating. :(
I love your idea of making Cozy with summer tweed, I think I'll do the same!
Posted by: Liz | April 14, 2005 at 07:37 AM
simply stunning. all of the wraps are simply gorgeous. your blog is a delightful meal for the eyes!!
Posted by: michelle | April 17, 2005 at 09:30 AM