More backlog...
Sunday, February 05, 2006
I wanted to quickly share this photo of a quick project I did at the beginning of January. This was a gift for my mom's group post-holiday party where we played that game where you pick numbers and steal, swap, trade gifts. I know there are several names for this but none of them ever seem to stick in my mind.
This is Paton's Classic Merino Wool dyed with unsweetened drink mix packets purchased at Aldi. One of the rules of our gift swap was that items needed to be either handmade, inexpensive (under $10) or second hand. This fit all three of the options, as I also gave the needles pictured. Those were mine, bought from the Target dollar spot when they were $.25. I found them too rough so I sanded them down, whitewashed the shafts and painted the ends. The yarn was bought on sale for about $4 and the Aldi drink mixes are 12 packets for $.69. I think I used 4 packets, 2 each of the berry and grape flavors.
I like how it turned out! Enjoy!
That's all for now. Coming soon, my re-evaluated knitting queue...
