Ode to Caron Simply Soft
My brain is broken.
It's beginning to look a lot like a brown Christmas here in Minnesota, all of our snow seems to have gone to Kansas, judging by the stock footage on the news. Our Christmas tree looks lovely:
And I have finished three pairs of mittens. More or less. Or at least the knitting part. That counts, right? Getting mittens to match has proven more than a little problematic. I still have ends to weave in on the lotus mittens.
And I have to create a button and button loop on the "alpaca" flip tops.
Now those... lovelies I'm proud of. As I sat down to dinner with my friends, Gingersnap Mitten recipient looked at the flip tops and said "How is that harder than mine?" And I said, "Well, there are 8 cables in both of your mittens. There are 27 cables in one of these." That's right, I counted. Here they are in all their knotted glory:
The flip tops and the Lotus mittens were both knit out of Caron Simply Soft, which is one of my favorite yarns. Yarn snobs may be horrified, because Simply Soft is 100% acrylic. This is actually an advantage with me as one of the people I knit most for (My mother) is allergic to wool, and there aren't many good options outside of cotton. This is not the nasty acrylic you inherited from your grandmother. It feels a lot like wool yarn, but it doesn't catch on your chapped hands, or get itchy when you've worn the fuzz off. Not that there's not fuzz, because there is.
Add to this that simply soft comes in a huge range of colors at my Joann's, and I'm sold. And now they come in Simply Soft Lite. Do not be fooled, this is a fingering weight yarn, but it is also lovely and is turning into a lovely glove.
Wait? Did I say glove?
This is the part where my brain explodes. You see I gave my mother the same opportunity I gave my friends, choose a pattern. Since she is my mother, and she gave birth to me and raised me and now financially supports me, she got to choose gloves, with fingers. Fingers scare me. She has chosen a lovely lace patterned glove made out of fingering weight black yarn, with written line by line instructions split in two places.
It will be a Christmas Miracle if it gets done by the holiday.
It's beginning to look a lot like a brown Christmas here in Minnesota, all of our snow seems to have gone to Kansas, judging by the stock footage on the news. Our Christmas tree looks lovely:
And I have to create a button and button loop on the "alpaca" flip tops.
Now those... lovelies I'm proud of. As I sat down to dinner with my friends, Gingersnap Mitten recipient looked at the flip tops and said "How is that harder than mine?" And I said, "Well, there are 8 cables in both of your mittens. There are 27 cables in one of these." That's right, I counted. Here they are in all their knotted glory:
The flip tops and the Lotus mittens were both knit out of Caron Simply Soft, which is one of my favorite yarns. Yarn snobs may be horrified, because Simply Soft is 100% acrylic. This is actually an advantage with me as one of the people I knit most for (My mother) is allergic to wool, and there aren't many good options outside of cotton. This is not the nasty acrylic you inherited from your grandmother. It feels a lot like wool yarn, but it doesn't catch on your chapped hands, or get itchy when you've worn the fuzz off. Not that there's not fuzz, because there is.
Add to this that simply soft comes in a huge range of colors at my Joann's, and I'm sold. And now they come in Simply Soft Lite. Do not be fooled, this is a fingering weight yarn, but it is also lovely and is turning into a lovely glove.
Wait? Did I say glove?
This is the part where my brain explodes. You see I gave my mother the same opportunity I gave my friends, choose a pattern. Since she is my mother, and she gave birth to me and raised me and now financially supports me, she got to choose gloves, with fingers. Fingers scare me. She has chosen a lovely lace patterned glove made out of fingering weight black yarn, with written line by line instructions split in two places.
It will be a Christmas Miracle if it gets done by the holiday.
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