My Knitting Collection

(From Left to Right)
The gaudy green and pink basket is mainly for my odds and ends, which I keep in my office next to my desk. It holds my needles that aren't getting much use, photocopied patterns, leftover yarn. When I'm not using my Stitch N' Bitch book I sometimes stick it in there - I also signed out a Knitting for Dummies book from the library, but haven't referred to it much. In the left basket you'll also see a bunch of knitting notecards that I received from a friend - there's four different cards, featuring a poncho, a tank top, a sweater and a scarf. I'm thinking I might include a handwritten card when I'm giving something I've knitted as a gift - maybe with the care instructions written inside?

In the background is the yellow scarf I made for a friends birthday on Monday - my first time working with a merino wool - I'm recovering from a really bad rash right now, and I'm wondering if it was the wool, so I might be off merino for a while now. To the right of the scarf is the afghan I knitted, that was featured on my other blog, covering my friend's baby who was sleeping on the lounger on my patio.




The middle basket (shown above by itself) I keep stored under a chair in my living room - it's where I've been keeping the extra yarn for projects I'm working on, as well as the squares I am knitting for a quilt. I keep some of my extra needles in there - my other pair of circulars are at the bottom (green) and at that top are my bamboo and clunky blue aluminum. The ball of yarn is Patons Decor - it's the only yarn that I've used that doesn't seem to aggravate my skin so I use it A LOT. It's 75% acrylic and 25% wool, so not the best quality, but it knits up fairly soft and washes well. Also in the basket are my scissors and my jar of Burt's Bees Almond Milk hand cream, which I use while knitting when my hands dry out.




The far right basket (shown above by itself) is where I keep the projects I'm working on - it sits on the floor next to the sofa in the family room, where I seem to do most of my knitting, except when I'm commuting to work, in which case I grab something when I'm running out the door. Right now I'm working on a purple square for my quilt (#24/100) and also a blue scarf for my friend that gave me the knitting cards (I am using Paton Shetland Chunky for it, size 13 needles and it's knitting up FAST). You can barely see the 13s sticking out, but you can see the mauve aluminums, size 15 - the biggest needles I have.

Apparently, I'm Interchangeable

What kind of knitting needles are you?
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You are interchangeable.Fun, free, and into everything, you've got every eventuality covered and every opportunity just has to be taken. Every fiber is wonderful, and every day is a new beginning. You are good at so many things, it's amazing, but you can easily lose your place and forget to show up. They have row counters for people like you!



I haven't had the chance to try interchangeables but they idea of them is cool - apparently, it's a kit with all your different sizes of needle points and then you have different sizes of plastic cord that attach to the needles. So you can, you know, interchange them :).

A fellow knitter I know bought herself a pair off Ebay and loves them - they're expensive though, I think like $50-$60, but the good thing about them is you can travel on airplanes with them because they're plastic and they clear security. The plastic factor is probably the only reason I'm not coveting a pair - I like big clunky metal or aluminum needles that make a lot of noise - I find that yarn slides so much more easily on metal than plastic. When I'm knitting with plastic it seems like I'm spending more time rubbing my needles with wax then actually knitting. Sneaking knitting onboard an airplane though - that just sounds way too tempting - all that precious knitting time! - I might just have to try my friend's interchangeables and see if I can get around their plasticitity.