FishyKissKnits

Beach Knitting

Anyone who knows me, is aware of the fact that I don't go ANYWHERE without my knitting.  That includes the pool, the beach, car, airplane - doesn't matter.  It's like a security blanket for me.  Having said that however, I have to mention that some locations require much more 'set-up' time than others.

The beach is one of those locations.  Here, the sand and salt water can be a very real problem if you aren't careful.  I've dropped many balls of yarn in the sand, and can attest to the difficulty of getting out those tiny little grains.  My solution - I keep everything except the piece on the needles in a bag, tied up in the umbrella stand, out of reach of sand and surf.  If works quite well, but the problem is that progress is slow.  Every row, or so, you have to get up and pull more yarn from the skein, straighten things out, make any notes that are required to keep count etc.  Most people would consider this too complicated to be workable.  Not me.  There is NOTHING that compares to the splendor of knitting on the beach.  And here's proof.  When you look up - this is what you see:

 

Rainbow Progress

Here's a updated photo on the progress of my sweater/cardi.  I'm pretty sure it's going to be a cardi, or else I'll have to gift it because it won't fit me as a sweater.  I love the colours together, although I had to do a bit of tinking, because I didn't like the way the light pink knit up with the other colours.  I do like the results now.  I've also altered my original idea to work strictly with a fibonaci sequence.  I have to be a bit more particular about the colours that have larger stipes.

Knitted Wordle

My son put me onto this site.  He did a post on Wordle on his site Redbudd.  I was intrigued and wanted to see what it would do with a website of words, so I used my own.  Here are 3 different versions of what it came up with.  It's customizable, and I didn't spent very long putting any of it together - like changing colours.  All I did was randomize it.  Very cool.  I think it's so interesting that the 2nd image it came up with is in the shape of a fish - seeing as the name of my blog is fishykissknits!

Colourful Progress

I'm sitting at Chapters having my latte, and decided to give my hands a rest.  Progress is good on the cardigan.  I've used 5 of the 10 colours and am planning to steek the front to the armholes.  This is in keeping with my plan to use at least one new technique with each project in 2011.

The photo is of my progress so far, using my iPhone camera.  Colours are very jewel-like in reality.

Rainbows of Colour - Please help me Choose

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So here's the dilemma.  I have 4 different layouts of graduated colour for my next project.  It will be a ripple stitch cardigan or sweater, with the colours as shown in the above photos.  I photographed them making only one change in each.  At 4 o'clock - either a red or orange.  At 11 o'clock either a teal or aqua.  It's difficult to decide, but if I use all of the colours, it's too much, so 2 of them have to be eliminated.  Let me know what you think by commenting and voting either - a, b, c, or d.  I'd appreciate the help!