Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Perhaps I shall call it The Round Tuit...

'Course, if I were going to call it the "round" tuit, I really should be making it, uh, a CIRCLE-ISH shape, instead of a bunch of long RECTANGLES sewn together. And "square" tuit really doesn't have the same 'hehe, see what I did there? Because I finally got aROUND to it?!' punch. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I don't WANT a *round* blanket - I want a *square* one.

I know. I too shudder at the life-or-death Drama of this. Although I'm sure I will be RICH after selling the rights to my life's story to Hollywood.

Ahem. Aaaaaaaanyway - you know how after you've made a pair of socks, there always seems to be JUST ENOUGH yarn left over the you can't bear to (gasp!) throw it away, but at the same time there really isn't enough to DO anything with it, so, you put the micro-ball of scraps into a box or bag somewhere for, like, eight years, and then it gets to the point where you've tripped over the box one time too many and so you say to yourself, "Self! That's it! The time is NOW! I'm going to just...cast on 40 stitiches and knit strips in plain garter grabbing whatever random ball comes to hand as each one runs out until it is GONE!"?

Point. Reached.


8 comments:

RobinH said...

Huh. Actually I hadn't thought of that. I'd been considering the mitred-square thing, but the last one took two years and I finally said "aughhhh" and knit a few inches of border and called it done. And it was only a baby blanket.

Strips, now. Withough two ends per teensy-weensy square. That I might be able to do something with... Nice idea, thanks!

RobinH said...

Huh. Actually I hadn't thought of that. I'd been considering the mitred-square thing, but the last one took two years and I finally said "aughhhh" and knit a few inches of border and called it done. And it was only a baby blanket.

Strips, now. Withough two ends per teensy-weensy square. That I might be able to do something with... Nice idea, thanks!

Michael Irwin said...

Nice. Tola knits Monster Socks ('cos they're supposedly as neat, tidy, and pretty as monsters should be), or knubbelchen (little knobbly people with hats) from them. Personally, I'm in favour of the Monsters, 'cos they're usually for me.

Nancy G said...

Hexipuffs are my latest use for scrap sock yarn. Addictive little suckers, those...

Tola said...

like Mike says, i make Monstersocks, and Knubbelchen, and Hexipuffs. i cannot bear to throw away a yard of sock yard.

Nicole said...

I started my hexipuffs back in January. I have a little wooden box near my knitting chair with a sachet of lavener in it that I throw them into when they're done. Those are addictive.

PipneyJane said...

You are a brave woman knitting a sock-leftovers blanket.

I either knit fingerless mitts with the leftovers from socks or I knit another pair of sock legs (if the yarn is patterned) and then use cream for the feet.

- Pam

Steph B said...

What the heck is a hexipuff? Inquiring minds...