Procrastinator ! ! !

Procrastination, I'm good at it.

I've been putting off posting a pic of my Fair Isle Practice piece.

Don't get me wrong.  I enjoyed this bit of learning

and have adopted this method of taking care of the 'floats' on the back of my work

while carrying one yarn across a number of stitches.

But just didn't want to post a photo to the blog

that I'm not in love with.

The class is on CreativeBug

and is taught by Brandon Mably.

His classes can be found by clicking on the link toward the bottom of the CreeativeBug home page under "Instructors".

Since I used fingering weight yarn and small needles instead of the 

worsted weight yarn and size 8 needles in the tutorial

the pattern on the front side does not impress me.

Much too large a pattern for such a small area.

The suggested use of making 'magic balls' of yarn from leftover scraps

was not to my usual way of choosing colors. 

The contrast in the beginning rows isn't to my liking.

After seeing that

I just went to my leftovers to pick and use

colors with enough contrast 

to tell the background from the flowers.

At any rate, here it is .

Enough Procrastination ! ! !

As you can see contrast is non-existent in several rows in the beginning [bottom of pic].

The gaping hole in the center flower 

[first row of flowers]

I didn't see it until two or three rows later.

- the instructor of this class, said not to worry,

no ripping back,

just continue and learn from it.

Now the back is a whole 'nother matter.

The beginning rows aren't so great

but just look at those rows in the second half of this swatch.

Very neat, indeed ! ! !

No Looking For A Darning Needle

No Weaving in All Those Pesky Ends

All of that is taken care of by 

knitting in the end of the old yarn

 and the beginning of the new yarn

as the rows are worked.

Just maybe a snip or two along the way.

I'm impressed on how easily Brandon was able to show me how to do this technique.

I had tried this particular way of carrying the floats

but it just didn't take.

Now I can use this in just about any piece I knit.

This orange-cuff sock is just another version of my previous Broken Seed Stitch sox.

Just replacing the cuff color from the white does change the entire look.

I think I love it ! ! ! ! 

Our temp this afternoon

is a balmy 71 degrees F 

I think we can live with that.

We're sitting here in the dining room

keeping eye on the birdies feeding

from our deck feeders.

Oh, I don't want to not mention 

that dang pesky squirrel

who thinks all the 

premium black sunflower seeds

were set out just for him.

The grass is definitely turning green

and soon Spring Blossoms will abound.

hugs 'n smiles,

Gerry