Susan at “The Princess Speaks” has announced a knit along, and I joined; you can too. In The Hoodie for people who want to knit any hoodie pattern they can find. Both machine and hand knitters can join.
The Princess has set down some rules, for those who join. I don’t want to give them all away, but if you want to knit this hoodie using $5,000,000,000 worth of Noro Silk Garden, don’t join this knit along. This knit-a-long is for those who aren’t ashamed to buy their yarn at Walmart.
Susan is knitting her hoodie from Caron Super Soft, which she found in a bargain bin at some craft store using some pattern she found somewhere. (I speculate it’s a free pattern). I plan to add a hood to my sideways knit raglan pattern, and use the same mystery acrylic I used for my beer socks. The yarn is an unlabeled mystery acrylic, and I didn’t spent much money.
If I have any yarn left over, I may need to knit Colocha a sweater and her own beer sock. What could be more fey than an adult and her doll wearing matching sweaters and holding beer dressed in matching socks?
So, if you want to knit a hoodie and chat as you knit, join us.
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Dear Lucia:
It is my position that http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/index.php?p=92#comments is completely cruel. I think it is unfair to impose one’s poor fashion sense on a newborn. No offense to your mother, as I am sure she meant “papoose” instead of poncho and paoose’s are completely cute.
Also, I wanted to say that I agree that five billion dollars for some noro k yarn is too much. Brian and I are completely fond of acrylic, especially for baby. There was a woman at knit nyc awhile ago who had knitted this adorable baby shirt thing with a white heart intarsiaed in the front. In angora. Right where the vomit goes.
Anyway, I do not buy yarn at wallmart because I don’t shop there, but I totally get it at LCSs and also many other cheap retailers (Smiley’s yarns in Queens, e.g.).
I remain ever jealous of your knitting machine. And also, the comments screen on your website on my browser at home and at work is funny. The sidebar you have completely covers over half of my comment so I am typing along and have a lot of typos because I can’t read half of it as I’m typing. It is super weird and I blame it on some sort of weird table-related html thingy.
I remain a big fan of yours Lucia, even as we differ re: Ponchos and now Wallmart.
Love,
Bevin
Comment by bevin (24 comments.) — 2/23/2005 @ 9:34 am
I am totally not ashamed to say that I buy yarn from AC Moore and Michaels and the like. I do not shop at Walmart, but if I did I would totally buy yarn there. I am a fan of the inexpensive yarn. Fiber snobs are completely troubling unto me. I feel like knitting something in a luxury fiber should be just that. A luxury to be indulged in occasionally like champaign. Otherwise my hobby would totally become cost prohibitive.
Comment by Sooner (4 comments.) — 2/23/2005 @ 10:24 am
Cruel?
That child needs to learn to dress like a world leader!
Comment by lucia — 2/23/2005 @ 10:48 am
Bevin,
I apologize for the comment screen. I’m also sure it’s a weird html-css-blog template interaction. Unfortunately, it looks fine when viewed in all four of my browsers. That means I can’t fix it.
I will blame Microsoft!
Comment by lucia — 2/23/2005 @ 10:52 am