Finished Object: Kriya
Stats:
Pattern: Kriya Yoga Mat Bag (Ravelry link) or direct .pdf download.
Needles: US 8 (5.0 mm)
Yarn: Cascade 220 Wool, 1 skein pink, 1 skein brown (most of both skeins was used)
Mods: Erm. No, I guess not.
Thoughts: Combining cabling and stranded color work isn’t hard, per se, but it’s a little like learning to drive a stick shift. You know how to do the things, but putting them all together at once feels a little confusing at first. It flowed into a very simple rhythm after a short period of time, though. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about colored cable work and am definitely pleased with this, so I’m sure that there is more of this type of knitting in the future. My little swatch even got some use.
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Remember when I mentioned getting stuck rubbernecking in the drama threads on Ravelry? For a short time after that they seemed to subside, which was nice because I got a lot of gardening done. Well, they’re back and they’re bigger and better (worse) than ever. I know it’s sort of idiotic to read those things, but I’m coming to terms with it. I love gossip and drama when they have nothing to do with me. There, I’ve admitted it. I don’t participate, I just lurk and secretly pick sides and sneer and snort to myself about the ridiculousness of it all. I was speaking to a friend about this and she feels the same way-as long as it doesn’t touch her, she likes to watch it from the sidelines. We got to talking about how much of it there is lately (a seemingly inordinate amount, but not as much as some other fora, I suppose.), how to find it (You know the person who deals with all the big trouble? Read all their posts.), and how wouldn’t it be nice if there was some central collection place for those of us who like to silently read up on the latest dramatic offerings like cheap pulp fiction. Admit it. You do it, too. I know that when there are 40 voices and 602 readers that there are a lot of people doing it besides me. So I got to thinking that we need a Ravlery Rubberneckers Group for staying abreast of the latest melodramatic offerings from the amateur actors, devising RavDrama drinking games and to discuss the basics of surviving the marathon reading required. This was a joke, but I get closer to actually doing it with every passing hour. EDIT: I did it. Join, you know you wanna.
I started my new job, which was basically the same job but a new location and more working, but might be morphing into an actual new job. I expect to be very busy for the next couple weeks at least. I’d like to call it yarn money, but the lack of knitting time and abundance of stash and queued up projects really probably means it won’t result in yarn collecting. Or at least, that’s what I thought until I caught wind of a new yarn shop IN. MY. TOWN. This may not mean much to you, but we don’t even have a liquor store here, only one grocery store, one fast food restaurant and a whole lotta farms. I will make time to install myself in it and report back.
Meanwhile, I’m stitching away productively on the Wank It! and soon I’ll be beginning Moroccan Days/Arabian Nights. Just the process of choosing yarn and beads has been epic so I can only imagine what I’ll be putting myself through with the execution. Another “Jen takes the hard route for the sake of a wild idea” project. There’s also a little Hyrna Hergobar in the very near future-and that is one that I’ve been absolutely dying to knit ever since I saw Claudia’s. It’s one of those things that has stayed with me, haunting me all this time. I keep changing my mind about the yarn, though, so it’s anyone’s guess right now what it’s going to look like. I’m more excited about my upcoming projects than I’ve been in a long time.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Ok I’ll bite, whats the new drama on Rav?
May 9th, 2008 at 6:51 am
*Snort* Drinking game. I love it!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Wow! That’s some impressive knitting.
I need to get on Ravelry more often. I want to read some drama! I want to lurk or stir the pot. Sign me up!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:50 am
If you start such a group, I may just have to join. I’ve finally weaned myself off the Super Mega Drama Thread, but I seem to have replaced that addiction with All the Other Wank.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:14 am
I think the RavRubberneckers is a great idea!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Oh wow, that’s gorgeous! I haven’t seen that pattern before, but I think it’s definitely going to be making it’s way into my queue now! You did an incredible job.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:58 am
That is some awesome knitting. It looks just fabulous.
I like to read the drama threads too, for the same reason I like to read the Barbeque Pit on another message board I visit. People with strong opinions and people who act crazy just fascinate me. I could watch them for hours. From a safe distance, that is.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Your Kriya kicks ass!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thank you. Thank you for taking the hard route for the sake of a wild idea. Someone’s got to do it!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:51 am
gawd, it’s like you have the lamp burning into the top of my head - or a quiet whisper from behind the confessional shade - OKAY, MAKE IT STOP - I’LL ADMIT IT - I SOMETIMES DO IT, TOO.
Gotta go eat some chocolate and recover….
May 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I think the rubbernecker group is a great idea, because I’m hooked on those types of threads, too. That stupid MCY thread has kept me more entertained than anything else lately. It’s like message board crack.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am
You moved into a town without a liquor store?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Oh and do the rubbernecking group. Because I hear all sorts of people talking about all the drama, but I have no idea how to find it.
Ok. I could probably find it if I put my mind to it. But there’s yarn and patterns there too and they’re shiny and distracting.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I would totally join a Ravelry Drama-Watchers’ Group…I was thinking of starting my own, actually, and naming it “Trainwreck Spotting.” If you need another mod…I’m just sayin’.
That yoga mat is gorgeous…I’ll definitely have to look into combining colorwork and cables.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Cool…I’ll go make the banner!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
If you start that group, please let me know. I’d like to be a member of a group that doesn’t make me want to tear my hair out.
I love that bag. Would I have to take up yoga to knit it? ;^)
May 9th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
That is a fabulous pattern. I may need to knit it. I think I have some yarn I would like to use for it. However, I will be unable to list it on Ravelry until after I gift them because the recipients know what I am up to over there. Maybe I should just make them for myself.
Sometimes I have to stay away from that stuff when it messes with my mind and mood or I am escaping too much from life. I stick with a tv soap opera or two, and it drains less. Then there are times when my crazy is so strong that I have to leave those alone, too. Still, I like the idea of the group you’re formulating.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
The knitting is awesome, but what brought me to comment is the idea of a drama lurkers group…if you make one I am so in….. and now I am off to seek out the latest and greatest in soap without the teevee…
May 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Kriya is lovely. I wasn’t even aware of drama(s) at Ravelry. I’m so out of the loop!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Gorgeous knit. I can drive a stick (and a motorcycle, which is the same thing, but with your FEET!), but I can’t imagine cabling and colorwork at the same time. Of course, that may have something to do with never having cabled…
I like your RRG idea; I haven’t been following, but I’ll join like the lemming I am!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
It just looks awesome.
And I have joined the rubberneckers.
Anything you two are involved in has got to be worth looking into.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Very beautiful bag. Love how it turned out.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Lovely bag. I am so glad you included what it’s actually FOR in your specs, ’cause I was wondering.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Kriya is absolutely gorgeous! What is it with you and La and cables? You both do such pretty things with them. And you know I love the colorwork. Not so much the yoga though. =P
I joined that group so fast I think I got whiplash.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I joined the rubberneckers! I kept seeing people talk about the dramas but was usually lost on what was going on, though I did actually know the mystery lace fiasco.
Grats on the job stuff.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I joined the group, too. Hopefully now I can witness train wrecks closer to when they actually occur, while the gossip about them is still relevant. While I’m not out riding my bike, that is.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
You know what would be great? A podcast. That way I could be filled in on the drama while I’m riding my bike. Just read the drama threads to me. That’d be great.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Ooh, the pretty. Cables, that is. Gorgeous yoga bag you have there.
And the trainspotting Ravgroup ya just started? Texas gold.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Hyrna! Fun pattern, don’t get freaked out by the Icelandic.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I’m not a big drama person, so I probably would only stop in when I needed a dose of drama (a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…). I really only go on Ravelry to see what might happen with a pattern if I make it with a different yarn.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Too funny about the Rubberneckers group! That bag is gorgeous and is making me think about colored cables much more favorably.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
For someone who claims not much knitting time, you’re sure cranking out some nice knits! Oh, I came, I saw, I joined. I love that shit!
May 14th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Jeez. Now I’ll never get any knitting done.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Cool! I love it!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Kriya rocks! I’m off to add it to my Rav que…