Dudes! We’re running up the Art Museum stairs! We’re chasing a chicken! Burgess Meredith is spitting at us with his half-eye! It’s TRAINING TIME!
Rest assured, no photographers were harmed by the ultraviolet glow coming off the Neon Pink Falk.
I received my yarn yesterday, from a lovely shop in Wisconsin, Yarns By Design. Prompt, friendly, and the woman I spoke to you used to live in MY neighborhood. She also told me that if I had any problems with colors running, I should promptly send back the yarn. Good customer service goes a long way in my book.
So here we go! I cast on a swatch last night – late – but so far so good. The Xs on either side of the garter stitch edging are a bit wonky, but the ones in the middle are pretty good. I’m using some kind of mutant combination knitting that is so completely awkward it qualifies for a special version of the Olympics. (Insert Ann and her fake Boston accent!) I’m thinking things will be much easier when I start knitting in the round. So far I like it! I think I might do one mitten with the pink as the main color and one mitten with navy as the main color – just to make things really wild and crazy. So far so good with the yarn – the fabric is nice and thick and I think they will make nice warm mittens – even though it hasn’t been cold enough to wear mittens.
I will be in Philadelphia, home of Rocky, when I cast on this Friday. I can guarantee, at least once or twice in the knitting of these mittens, I will be screaming ADRIAN! ADRIAN! at the top of my lungs. Even if I don’t really need too. 😉
PS! Is there a Team Philly Button? Do I need to make one? I think casting on in the City of Brotherly Love qualifies for team membership. C’mon on out you Broad Street Bullies! Where are you?
Well, crap, if you were going to bet at Doyle’s for the opening ceremonies, you could have screamed it in my face!
Damn, that’s some bright pink yarn. The blue does tone it down some, though.
Very preppy. More Main Line than Rocky, donchta think? (ducking)
LOVE the hot pink / navy blue combination–it really pops. Very clever of you to put those two colors together. What a great pair of mittens these will be!
These mittens are going to be great! I’ll be around to fulfill my official duties as a spectator while you’re knitting them!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but, if you’re going to be knitting in the round shouldn’t your swatch also be in the round? Just sayin’…
That yarn is AWESOME! I love the navy and pink – what’s the point of navy if you can’t spice it up a bit? The swatch looks good and knitting in the round will be a lot easier (clearly, the one stranded knitting project I’ve done makes me an expert on this topic – snort). Although the experts told me circular beats dpns, and I figure dpns have to beat straights (sounds like a poker lesson).
Do you have SnB Nation? My tip for pseudo circular swatching is in there…
That pink. Whoa. Do you have sunglasses at the ready?!
You must knit them as opposites! It would be so cool!!
Me, me, I need a Philly button! And while, as a main line resident, I take umbrage at rock chick’s comment, I have to admit I see a lot of that pink being worn around here. But, in skull mittens, it’s very cool. I’m adapting the pattern to make one of my girls skull socks in black and neon pink. The other is getting a hat version with green aliens instead of skulls.
Love your enthusiasm…….Man, that pink gives me an ice-cream headache kind of feeling…….bright, for sure……
Hey, I kept forgetting to ask you…. I’ll be in Philly at the end of March visiting a friend (she actually lives in Bryn Athyn and teaches at the Cathedral School there, but we’re planning to go into Philly. Is there something I should see or do, and can you recommend any LYS’s? I like to get souvenir sock yarn on each trip. The museum you linked to looks cool! TEXTILES!
Ohh, I want to visit my Grandma just to go to that store. The store is literally around the corner from her house! It’s a pity she doesn’t knit, and I don’t have the guts to ask her to walk in there and buy me something. 😉
I’m going to be a sloth, sitting on the sidelines, cheering you on. I love the opposites idea…then you’ll know which one is for the right hand and which for the left. Huh? Well, do it anyway.
Great idea to do opposites, Cara – they’ll be super-custom that way. Add me to the sloth list sitting on the sidelines cheering you on. 🙂
Love the colors! You wearing sun glasses while you knit these or what? And why, oh why, does Ann have a phony Boston accent?
Great color combo! I love the hot pink. Even though it hurts my eyes. Or maybe because…
love the that pink!
I know that wendy over at knitandthecity.blogspot.com was looking for philly teammates
So does this mean there will also be “Special Olympic Knitters”? Just kidding, there is NO wrong way to knit.
Dang, now I have that Rocky sock in my head 🙂
That’s very very pink. Love it!
hey Muffy? I think Rock Chick may be right.
I haven’t seen a Team Philly button, but such a thing would be nice.
The opposite-colored mittens sound great.
Wow! You knit lovely socks.
Thanks for the help in finding the “just the right pattern”.
I like this internet thing.
That yarn store is like 15 minutes from my parents house and a five minute walk from my ex-boyfriends house. I live in Madison now, but when I went to visit my parents a couple of weeks ago I dragged my Mom there. It was a super nice store with lots of good yarn and really friendly people working there. It made me sad that I didn’t pick up knitting until I moved away from that area.
I love the navy and hot pink!