Meme Again

julia sucked me in on this one.  i haven't posted my answers until now because this one was actually hard.  for me anyway.   thanks julia! 

What is your all time favorite yarn to knit with?  i don't have a favorite brand.  i love all of the noros because i'm a sucker for variegated color.  and i just bought a skein of marabrigo which is the softest thing ever.  and i like yarn that many knit bloggers would spit at.  *spit*  but i think that the one thing that all of my favorite yarns have in common, other than wonderfully vivid color, is that they tend to be wool or a wool blend.    i'm making fuzzy feet in lamb's pride right now  and i'm loving it.  so yeah it's wool.  it's nice and springy, and if it isn't too scratchy and passes the face rub test, i love it.

Favorite needles?  i'm not really all that picky.  i have a large  collection of aluminum straights.  and i have a pair of inox needles that i got from france years ago (i probably stole them from my mother) that i really like.  lately i've enjoyed knitting on bamboo.  and of course my denises.   

The worst thing you've ever knit?  well i've been knitting off and on since i was 8 so there's plenty of "worst."  how about the worst thing i ever knit that shouldn't have been horrible?  i had a hell of a time with bonne marie's  sitcom chic.   i had all sorts of technical difficulties knitting it up and ended up frogging 3 times.  i don't know why.  it certainly wasn't the most challenging sweater i'd ever knit and it was a well written pattern, but we just weren't connecting.  maybe it was the bright pink cotton-ease that was causing me grief ?  anyway, the finished product also didn't lift my skirt up.  i wore it once to work, hated wearing it, came home, and frogged it for good.

Most valuable knitting technique?  unknitting. when i figured out how all of the stitches interlinked and figured out that i could unknit or use a crochet hook to grab lost stitches, etc., that was like an epiphany.  i no longer had to frog the whole damn thing or run to my mom to fix it.

Your most favorite knit pattern? (maybe you don't like wearing it...but it was the most fun to knit)

it took forever to make but when i finished it i felt such a sense of pride.  it had lace.  it was made with much smaller needles than i was used to and i even modified the pattern a bit.  it's the white sweater in this earlier post.

Best knit book or magazine?  i really like interweave knits.  it's consistently good.   i have a bagillion books but my favorites have to be the 4 alice starmores i have in my collection -- the celtic collection, fishermen's sweaters, aran knitting, book of fair isle knitting.  i bought them ages ago and i read them like novels.  but other than knit up practice swatches, i have never made anything from them.  i don't have the patience. 

Your favorite knitwear designer?  no one in particular.  although i do think teva durham is a wonderfully creative designer.  and i'm always in awe of what annie modesitt and kate gilbert come up with.  such talented women.  i'm a little jealous.

Your favorite knit blogs?  i'm very visual and i have a short attention span, so my favorite  blogs (other than those of people i have a real or internets only relationship) tend to crammed with wonderful photographs.   some of my favorites lately have been wee wonderfuls, juju loves polka dots , and yarnstorm.   they aren't so much knit blogs as craft blogs but there is knitting in there sometimes. 

The knit item you wear the most? (how about a picture of it!)  my current wardrobe of scarves.  and come winter i'll be wearing my big ass 15 year old gray intarsia cabled roll neck monster sweater.  it's perfect for slipping over sweaters and going for a walk.  it's the gray sweater here.  i wear the blue one too.

ok, i've got to get my butt to work.  if you haven't done this meme, then i tag you.  have a great day.

julia sucked me in on this one.  i haven't posted my answers until now because this one was actually hard.  for me anyway.   thanks julia! 

What is your all time favorite yarn to knit with?  i don't have a favorite brand.  i love all of the noros because i'm a sucker for variegated color.  and i just bought a skein of marabrigo which is the softest thing ever.  and i like yarn that many knit bloggers would spit at.  *spit*  but i think that the one thing that all of my favorite yarns have in common, other than wonderfully vivid color, is that they tend to be wool or a wool blend.    i'm making fuzzy feet in lamb's pride right now  and i'm loving it.  so yeah it's wool.  it's nice and springy, and if it isn't too scratchy and passes the face rub test, i love it.

Favorite needles?  i'm not really all that picky.  i have a large  collection of aluminum straights.  and i have a pair of inox needles that i got from france years ago (i probably stole them from my mother) that i really like.  lately i've enjoyed knitting on bamboo.  and of course my denises.   

The worst thing you've ever knit?  well i've been knitting off and on since i was 8 so there's plenty of "worst."  how about the worst thing i ever knit that shouldn't have been horrible?  i had a hell of a time with bonne marie's  sitcom chic.   i had all sorts of technical difficulties knitting it up and ended up frogging 3 times.  i don't know why.  it certainly wasn't the most challenging sweater i'd ever knit and it was a well written pattern, but we just weren't connecting.  maybe it was the bright pink cotton-ease that was causing me grief ?  anyway, the finished product also didn't lift my skirt up.  i wore it once to work, hated wearing it, came home, and frogged it for good.

Most valuable knitting technique?  unknitting. when i figured out how all of the stitches interlinked and figured out that i could unknit or use a crochet hook to grab lost stitches, etc., that was like an epiphany.  i no longer had to frog the whole damn thing or run to my mom to fix it.

Your most favorite knit pattern? (maybe you don't like wearing it...but it was the most fun to knit)

it took forever to make but when i finished it i felt such a sense of pride.  it had lace.  it was made with much smaller needles than i was used to and i even modified the pattern a bit.  it's the white sweater in this earlier post.

Best knit book or magazine?  i really like interweave knits.  it's consistently good.   i have a bagillion books but my favorites have to be the 4 alice starmores i have in my collection -- the celtic collection, fishermen's sweaters, aran knitting, book of fair isle knitting.  i bought them ages ago and i read them like novels.  but other than knit up practice swatches, i have never made anything from them.  i don't have the patience. 

Your favorite knitwear designer?  no one in particular.  although i do think teva durham is a wonderfully creative designer.  and i'm always in awe of what annie modesitt and kate gilbert come up with.  such talented women.  i'm a little jealous.

Your favorite knit blogs?  i'm very visual and i have a short attention span, so my favorite  blogs (other than those of people i have a real or internets only relationship) tend to crammed with wonderful photographs.   some of my favorites lately have been wee wonderfuls, juju loves polka dots , and yarnstorm.   they aren't so much knit blogs as craft blogs but there is knitting in there sometimes. 

The knit item you wear the most? (how about a picture of it!)  my current wardrobe of scarves.  and come winter i'll be wearing my big ass 15 year old gray intarsia cabled roll neck monster sweater.  it's perfect for slipping over sweaters and going for a walk.  it's the gray sweater here.  i wear the blue one too.

ok, i've got to get my butt to work.  if you haven't done this meme, then i tag you.  have a great day.