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March 11, 2007


I Hate Yarn

Only, not so much today, because we have (bad) pictures! More digital fun!

Sadly, my carelessness in not selecting photogenic yarns, not to mention my complete lack of photographic knowledge (beyond "point-and-shoot") means few of these pictures are actually that interesting to look at.

It's not easy to see, but this is the crochet pattern I discovered a few weeks ago and that I'm using most often at the moment.

A light blue scarf and a close-up of the pattern (and I have no idea why the blue turned almost-neon in that picture.)

A cherry-and-white scarf and a close-up of the pattern, one I think came out well.

And, as I've droned on about at length, I've done some knitting recently.

A medium blue scarf was my first attempt at making fringe.

Here's that brown-and-white "dirty" yarn scarf. The color doesn't look right, but the place where the color seems to be blurring at the bottom of the first picture is the spot where the yarn unexpectedly variegated into a solid cream for a few rows. The yarn itself was much prettier skeined than worked.

That impossible-to-work pastel yarn and a close-up that gives you a better sense of the colors, although neither captures the weird and lumpy texture of the yarn

Let me assure you that the rows are as even as it was possible to make them. The places where they look uneven is due to lumps in the yarn. It's actually some kind of coarse, white yarn with a variegated pastel ribbon-and-thread combination string textured into the fiber of the yarn. I should have looked at it a lost more closely before I bought it.

That funky gray-and-black yarn didn't photograph well (believe it or not, that was a color picture when I started) although I promise you the scarf is light as a feather and soft as down.

Neither does the prettiest yarn I've worked with, the variegated blue-to-lavender yarn. That's disappointing to me. This really was a rich, soft yarn to use in a scarf, but maybe the colors were too subtle for this little camera. While blurry, this gives you a slightly better idea of the colors (Its too light and the purples still don't show, but whatever….)

posted by AnneZook on 03.11.07 at 07:02 PM





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