Monthly Archives: July 2007

Knitting In The Dark

To escape the heat we packed ourselves into the car yesterday and drove to Flagstaff. For our outdoors activity of the day, we drove about 15 miles or so north of Flagstaff and got to the Lava River Cave:

Entrance to Lava River Cave in Arizona

This cave is about a mile long and is actually a a lava tube that was formed some 700,000 years ago by the cooling of molting lava from a near by volcano. If you want more details just click the name above the photo.

You go down quite a steep rocky kind of tunnel path and get into the darkness, quite an adventure. The thing that I liked the most about this cave is the temperature it was Cold such a nice change after the long long hot days that we have here these days.

It is of course, quite dark inside:

Sitting inside the Lava River Cave of northern Arizona

To let you see more of the cave I used photoshop:

Lava River Cave

Oh yes and among other things (walking, cooling off, getting all stressed at some very low point of the cave) I also did a bit of knitting while my dearest was busy photographing:

Knitting in the dark

Do you see my very practical knitting pouch:

The most dedicated knitter

It is a fancy bag of a Crown Royal Bottle – an excellent way to make everyone in the family happy :)

And if you are wondering, I made only one small mistake and had to rip off just a few stitches and it is all because of this stitch: Garter Rib in the round, it slows me down all the time and make me rip and knit and knit and rip even in full light, I suspect it just wants my undivided attention that’s all! And no, I don’t usually carry my knitting with me when we hike, I just was not sure I am going to enter the cave (I don’t particularly care for closed dark places) so I took the sock with me and when I saw the entrance and decided to go in I just put it in my pocket,,,

I think this is the weirdest place I ever knitted in, what do you think?

My Multicolour Scarf

It is oppressively hot outside. I find myself wondering yet again what exactly I am doing here. Oh well, it happens every summer. It will probably pass coming November (I Hope).

The freckles keep coming out. This yarn’s colours show themselves much better while it is knitted, I have great fun with it, thank you Carol.

My latest creation just finished drying so let me present to you: my version of the popular chevron scarf:

Multi Colour Scarf

Yarn: Koigu KPPPM
Colours:151865 and D121X387 (they are not very clear) 1 each
Needles: Addi Turbo Lace 3.75 mm (US5)
Pattern: I used the zigzag pattern from the famous Jay Walker socks
Measurements: 9 cm (3.5″) width and a very long length,,, hehehehe,,,
(199 cm = 78.5″)

Knitting the Koigu is amazing, the colours keep changing and although the 2 colours looked completely different in the skeins, knitting them I sometimes had to check that I did not make a mistake and did change the colour when I needed to :)

It is a present for a very dear friend of mine. I hope it will arrive safely, in time and most important that she will love it.

Oh I almost forgot, my new header is the back side (I refuse to call it wrong, it is not wrong, so I will use the Hebrew terms of back and front of a knitted garment if you don’t mind) of this scarf. I love both sides of this pattern in the Koigu, what do you think?