Today I finally got some good knitting time in.
I casted on and bound off, the Sparkly Tudora, a present for a friend that was supposed to have been made months ago but I kept sitting on since I knew I wasn’t going to see him anytime soon.
He wears mostly black so but is fond of high avant garde fashion and etc so I looked for a black sparkly yarn and I think Patons Brilliant was perfect. It’s glitzy but not over the top. I just hope it’s not too rough for him but he’s the kind to suffer for fashion anyways.
The only other thing I did was to lose the patience battle on waiting for the ball winder that was arriving the next day. I dug out the cone yarn of a mystery icy aqua color fingering weight yarn I got from Ebay a couple years ago (seller: knititems, he still sells it).
Recently I figured out the trick of winding your own center-pull balls by folding a piece of paper into a 2-3″ stick and running the yarn down the inside of it before starting to wind the ball around the paper itself. When you get a nice ball going, you can pull out the paper (from the direction that the yarn end is hanging out of) and then wind up the “loose” edges left behind. You end up with nice balls with a piece of yarn sticking out of it coming from the center.
I made two as the yarn will be doubled for the Moon Beads pattern (by Lily Chin, published in Wrap Style by Interweave Press, I hope to make the Tapestry Garden one too someday), a beaded cowl that will be my “Balance Beads” and “Cowl Jump” event entry for Ravelympics.