Nuclear Knits: Where knitting is the bomb!

Another one down!!  1090 yards of glorious windy valley Muskox yarn.  I bought this year probably 15 years ago at the Toas Wool Festival.  II’ve thought over the years about making something amazing with it and finally decided.  Took a while to get this project done - nearly a month - but so worth it!!!

Project Details: First off this is the second time I've made this and I love it even more the second time. I used Wooley Wonka lace yarn (holding two strands together). I also used beads on the triple decrease. Don't you think it makes the color of the yarn pop? I started on November 4th and finished on January 31. I used size 5 needles and the tiniest darn crochet hook on the planet. I can pretty much promise you I'll be making it again sometime!

I love putting FO in the subject line. Makes me feel like I've done something good! Project Details: Started on March 6th and finished on June 5th. Longer than one would think - but this was the car or doctor's office project. Not something I worked on all the time. I used 6 skeins of Bristol Yarn Gallery Buckingham Fingering alpaca yarn held together. Well I held two strands together (not all 6 at one time). This gave me the weight I wanted and it still drapes well I think. The pattern is really only 2 sentences long. I used size 7 needles and didn't change anything from the pattern. It was really a fun project!

A few years ago I bought this alpaca silk yarn that I just love. The feeling of it is amazing. The problem is that I have nearly 2000 yards of fingering weight yarn. Now for a shawl that might be fine (but we all know how long it takes me to knit up a shawl). I've had the pattern for the Stupidly Simple Triangle Scarf printed out for the past few months and I've been trying to decide what yarn to use. Either I have too little of a yarn or it isn't the right gauge. Then it hit me. Take the yarn I love and double it up. It would be thick enough for the pattern, I'd get to use all 2000 yards of it, and I get to make a pattern I've been dieing to try out. In the end, this is what you have. I'm just a short way into it, but I'm just loving every minute of knitting it up. It is silly easy, which makes it perfect for TV watching!