Saturday, February 03, 2007

Jo is a lemming (another Calorimetry)

I couldn't help myself. After seeing so many beautiful Calorimetries (I'm assuming that must be the plural) on other blogs such as Cristi's, Bezzie's, and CooknKnit's, I knew I had to become a lemming and make one of my own.

Wait a second! That article says lemmings do not all throw themselves off cliffs... way to ruin my entire metaphor, Wikipedia.

Anyway - here is my Calorimetry:



I knit it from a skein of Berroco's Foliage in Japanese Maple I bought up in Duncan, BC over Christmas. As you can see, the colour is redder than the shade card leads you to believe. The pattern was a very quick knit - I started about 8:30pm last night and was finished after lunch today. The button is courtesy of my mother-in-law's tin of buttons. I had to go down to size 6 needles to get gauge, but other than that, everything was knit as per the pattern.

I had intended to wait until tomorrow when I was a bit more gussied up for the picture - but I was so happy with how it turned out that I had Andrew take a picture of me wearing it... unbrushed, napped-in hair and all:



Maybe I will have him take a better picture tomorrow for posterity...

8 comments:

Bezzie said...

It looks great on you! And I realy like the way the middle reds separated like that--cool!
Welcome to the cool kids' club! ;-)

tara said...

I really like that. Wish i could knit.

LadyLungDoc said...

It looks like a set of lips when it's laid flat like that.

Zonda said...

Looks great! Your's looks even more like a set of lips then mine! :)

Batty said...

Great color choice! I think I'm going to follow you over that cliff...

turtlegirl76 said...

It looks great! I love the berry color on you. It looks fab with your hair.

SuzannaBanana said...

Neat! I wouldn't take another picture. That one's too cute.

(Suzanne runs to catch up with other lemmings...)

Anonymous said...

Well there, SP!

Your little red headband is lovely, lovely on you!

Just letting you know that a special SP package just for you will be heading your way sometime this week!

-JoLovey (SP)