Not knitting related

I have been knitting a lot recently, but I have no new photos because my camera isn't behaving to well and there isn't anything that interesting.

Instead we have pictures of my new hair!



It's much much shorter than I am used to having it, but I really like it.

Knitting wise, I have been doing a lot of shopping. I have brought 15 skeins in the last week and a half. 2 skeins of gorgeous Rowan 4ply soft, which I intended to knit Hedera with, although there are also some lace sock patterns in Socks Socks Socks - we'll see how it goes. I also brought some angora to test out, because I have actually fallen for a sweater pattern (actually, it's a cardigan - the point is, it's a garment, it requires more han 5 balls of yarn and seaming - I never thought I'd see the day when I'd even consider making such a thing) and a kilogram of wool/acrylic yarn that I brought solely because it was on sale, but I will make a fun blanket out of. Finally, I got a second skein of marble yarn so I have enough to knit a long scarf. I love this yarn. It's cheap and it's acylic, but it's soft and has beautiful, slow changing colours. I want to make another multi-directional scarf out of the berries colourway (see link), but I feel bad having the same scarf twice, although obviously the Noro Aurora would be very different in both look and feel to the marble.

I finished my Aurora multi-directional scarf, but messed up the final decrease section because I was rushing and watching Spooks on TV. It shouldn't be too hard to unravelling and fix, but urgh, hate frogging, so I will sulk at it for a while first.

All that sparkles...

Seems I am not that good at blogging.

I have been very busy, but I have also got some knitting done. Some of which I even managed to photograph today!

Firstly, today I started a multi-directional scarf in Noro Aurora.



It's sparkly. Despite this, I really really like it. The yarn is sort of a pain to knit with though - very stiff and unyielding and I've found a problem where the middle of the skein just isn't as nice and colourful as the oustide bits.

You can see in the first picture that my third triangle is pretty grey and dull. The problem is the rest of the skein looks the same. It has some nice dark purple, but none of the other colours appear to be there - it's just shades of grey and purple. See:



I've actually knit another triangle since I took this photo a few hours ago, and the purple looks good, but looking at the rest of the skein, I'm thinking I might switch now to avoid a great grey chunk in the middle of the scarf. I have three balls of Aurora, but all different shades. I was always planning to use them all as I think they'll blend pretty well and I'll get greater variation, but it's annoying having to switch mid-skein and have more ends to deal with. I am bad, historically, at dealing with ends.

2 examples of things that have been sitting on my desk for quite literally weeks that are all but finished apart from a few ends to weave in. We're not talkign sweater or fair-isle quantities of ends, either. These are scarves. I'm just lazy about anything involving anything that looks like a sewing needle.

Ugly coloured brioche-stitch scarf that I only weaved in the (2) ends for so I could take this photo. Has been sitting on my desk for weeks:



My finally finished So-Called Scarf met a similar fate. This one has more ends because there was a messy bit in the yarn, but it's hardly an epic project. I still haven't dealt with it - you can see the ends in the picture.



I don't like this as much off the needles as I did on. For one, I made it too long. Secondly, there are odd variations in the yarn, where bits of it are lighter than others. I'll wear it, but I don't think I'll live in it.

Finally (or at least, finally of things I photographed, not finally of things I've knit since I last updated), we have a Leisel Scarf, which I am liking.



If it turns out well it's going to my grandmother for Christmas. Otherwise I shall keep it. I have higher standards for other people than I do myself, though I also seem to have a much higher rate of disasters when I knit for other people.