Stash busting

I started another pair of Tofutsie socks with another limited edition colourway, blue, black and white. Not happy Jan.....I pulled the yarn out from the centre of the ball to get started and guess what I had a knot, yep a bloody knot a few metres into the ball, not happy at all. You pay $25 for a ball of yarn, and I don't expect to have a knot, not in the whole ball. I expect to get a full ball of yarn and NO joins. But back the real world or slackness of things in the world, and you get KNOTS.

Anyway got the shits with that and put it down, got it out the next day or so and started the sock, messed up the pattern, it is a naughts and crosses cable pattern, I crossed instead of naughting, so ripped back to beginning.

I then checked out the lovely green cane basket of yarn I won last year at CR&K Daisy Design's knitting camp at Mt Keira Scout Camp, which has one ball of alot of lovely different types of yarn, knitters heaven, and got out a few balls, got onto Ravelry and checked out what people had made with the yarns, then found a headband pattern for one ball, and it happens to be on knitty.com this time it is the "Quant" headband. It is an entralac pattern, bonus for me as I have always wanted to try that type of pattern, and it really suits the Noro Silk Garden yarn. I myself have always thought that Noro was a bit rough to feel, but it was really nice to knit. It only took 2 nights and a quick finish off on the I-cord the next morning to finish it.

Another yarn in the basket was Shepherd Pipkin, I had two balls of the same colour, and knitted it into a child's hat, it will probably be for the Guardian charity knitting that goes to Mongolia and similar countries.

So now I am back on the tofutsie socks, just on the band at the moment.