Sunday, January 05, 2025

Red, Red, Red

I finished up some red scarves since I last posted! 

Taking a look back, I was sure I had blogged about some of these, but it seems not! Here's the latest five scarves for World AIDS Day.

90gr


60gr

70gr

100gr


114gr
These five scarves were either out of the Bernat Super Value I picked up in the summer, or some old, shiny, slippery red yarn from the stash. The Bernat is actually quite nice when worked loosely and washed/dried.  All together, they weigh 434gr.

While on our cruise, there was a knitting/crocheting group that met up every other day or so. It was a ship run event, so a member of the Happenings Cast would be the host. I only got to go 3 times, I think. It conflicted with lectures I wanted to go to. One of the ladies learned how to make these little octopus, which is Virgin Voyages mascot (though for our ship, technically it's a robin egg's blue, but red is more synonymous with VV. She loaned me a hook and yarn, showed me how, and off I went. I made 3 in the last couple days of the cruise. They take about an hour each. I did the eyes once I got home. I did three different eyes because I couldn't decide. A vote in a FB crochet group said the ones on the right were best.  Megan took that one. They weigh about 10gr each, in a worsted weight (30gr total). 

On Boxing Day we went up to my Mom's in Bancroft. The girls wanted to go to Stedman's the next day, for old times' sake. It was fun. I bought 2 balls of Kroy sock yarn to make gloves, and I actually just did make them! That was 100gr, for $8.99 each, I don't think the tax break applies to yarn, so $20.32.

Yarn In:  2090gr + 100gr = 2190gr
Yarn Out: 464gr + 2055gr = 2519gr
Balance: 329gr more OUT than in
Costs: $20.32 + $44.55 = $64.87