Menonday Art Vibe; Henry Kondracki Peeks
Continuing this mini-exhibition of the Edinburgh painter's works, I think you will have no trouble recognising this great landmark, the Forth Rail Bridge. An iconic feature of the Scottish landscape for some 160 years, there have been many renditions and depictions, but this is as good as any. I know this angle well, viewed from South Queensferry, looking across the Firth of Forth towards the north, and Dalgetty Bay.
Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches
I teased you on Thursday with a slightly off-the-wall image... it involved some camo-adjacent looking yarn.
It's Hobbii Silly Socks, 75% superwash Merino, 25% polyamide, and it worked up dreamily. As you can tell from the swatch shots, I worked it quite tightly on a size 4mm ... Tunisian hook. Yup, not knitted, as you might think from that 'right side' - only the reverse side indicates something different. This is, though, called the knit stitch in Tunisian style crochet - for obvious reasons!
I bought the yarn in a large order from Hobbii a few years ago. It's been waiting. When my siblings were here and saw the jumper I made Mac1, I offered if they wanted anything. Mac2 sorted through the various mini-scarves and opted for the long turquoise one with the curly ends. Mac3 spotted this yarn peeking out of one of my many bags of stash, and I could see he was taken with it. He likes to wear neck gaiters (or buffs, as he calls them), so I set to it. It will get posted to him for his birthday at the end of the month.
Being sock yarn, it's a fingering-weight skein with wonderful loft. It's also very warm. Working with a quality yarn like this is pleasing beyond words. Above you see the finished item in its full 'buff' mode. On Thursday, I showed how it could be brought up balaclava-style for the more wintry weather. It can be rolled so that it is not quite so bulky around the neck, displaying the reverse side, which I think is as attractive a stitch pattern as the standard knit look.
In that same folded formation, it makes a decent headband, too... and then, of course, I couldn't resist checking out its "toque potential"!
I quite like that French Revolutionary dangle! I will be working something like this again for myself because I found myself wanting to keep wearing it. I don't have that same yarn (although I could order it... but no... stash overload!)
Anyway, there's another use for sock yarn you don't want to make socks with!
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