knitting on

As promised, the photo of the three-yarn seed-stitch scarf. It's soft, it's got lots of navy in it. It's manly, right?







Hope so, because I have a lot of that mottled navy and burgundy silkl, and I'm on a roll. I got the yarn at a bit of a discount because the skeins were fairly tangled. I look upon tangles as a form of meditation, and spent most of the afternoon yesterday hanging tangled skeins on the swift, and walking around and around it, carefully working the slowly growing ball of yarn in and out of the snarls. Took me hours, but I wound up with six balls of silk to knit with. And I was listening to Terry Pratchet's "Carpe Jugulum" on the i-pod, so both left and right brain were happily entertained.

I knit a sweater out of this yarn as well, an am somewhat dismayed at how much bias stockinette sags in silk. It clings quite affectionately, too. You can almost see the bones in my bra. It may well be re-knit into something less revealing.