I have a lot of knitting projects going at the moment. Regular readers of this blog know that’s not at all unusual, but these projects seems to have a theme. They are all rainbow projects. Even better, I have plans for more rainbow to go into these projects. I have a master plan for this rainbow stuff, and if it works out, it’s going to be awesome!
Here are the parts of my super-awesome rainbow knitting plan:
1) Socks–I love the Stroll Tonal sock yarn from KnitPicks. It’s beautiful and soft and somehow socks I make in it knit up quickly. (I think it’s the subtly changing colors. They stimulate my ADHD brain just enough to keep me fascinated so that I keep going to see how the colors blend together.) In the fall I ordered the pale green (Springtime) and the pink (Queen Anne, which is why I ordered it even though I’m not a big pink person) colorways. I finished one green sock and one pink sock recently and have the matches on the needles. I also recently ordered the light purple (Blue Violet, which looks more like Amethyst in my opinion) and the yellow (Golden Glow) colorways, and have those first socks on the needles. In the same order, I got a Stroll Handpaint colorway called Lullaby that’s a deep blue with light blue and purple in it. That’s turning into a sock too. I have more Tonal yarn in my cart on KnitPicks, waiting to be purchased when the time is right. My plan for all these colored socks? A rainbow of tonal socks for me. That’s right–all for me. I’ve given away every pair of socks I finished before now, and these are all for me.
2) Giant blanket–I’ve been wavering for a while on this project. I blogged a while ago about the giant rainbow log cabin blanket I was working on. At first I thought it would be all for me. Then I thought I’d just stop with one square and give it to Nicole for the new baby. Now I’m back on the “all for me, all for me” side of the thing. (I’ve already made a lovely blanket for the new baby, and I’ll whip up some booties and a hat at some point, and maybe a sweater eventually.) I’ve started the second and third squares, but am stuck because I ran out of the colors I need next. My plan, once I get more yarn, is to make those two big squares, sew them together, and then pick up and knit a border around the entire blanket. The border will be light purple and dark purple and then one garter ridge of each of the rainbow colors. It will be enormous, I will probably fuss a great deal about it when the time comes to knit the thing, and I am really looking forward to the finished product. It’s going to be enormous. The first finished square right now, without the border on it, covers my lap pretty well, even when I’m sitting cross-legged. My goal is a blanket that will cover all of me when I lay down, the kind of thing I can take along to Cedar as extra warmth. It’s all in Lion Brand Wool-Ease THick and Quick, so it’s just one big squishy blanket of warmth and wonder.
3) Possible leftovers rainbow scarf–there’s quite a bit of the tonal yarn left from the socks, so I may try to turn it into a rainbow scarf, but at the moment I’m not officially including this in the Rainbow Plan.
4) Other–Knit Picks has a new yarn line called Chroma, which has 2 beautiful rainbow colorways that I may buy at some point to make some sort of rainbowy goodness project.
