New hair and Hobby

[missmiah]

Yesterday was a busy day.

rewil and I went to get my hair done. Yeah, she sat there for two hours reading and laughing at me while I got my hair dyed and cut.

For the first time in nearly twelve years I am not a redhead. True, there is red in my hair, but those are lowlights. I have... brown hair.

Just realized this means all my "me" icons are out of date. And I also just realized I'm too lazy to worry about changing them.

Anyway - this brown with subtle red is what I've been calling my "training hair". One of the ladies at the salon had hair color that I loved but didn't think I could pull off with my coloring so this is sort of an in between color to prep me for the drastic change, if I decide to try it. If having this medium brown color is too dark for me then next month it's back to my ever faithful red.

In other news I've decided to learn to knit. cptn_oblivious had been making noises about a Doctor Who scarf for a few years now and while I could crochet him one I thought it might be better if I made an effort to knit it. Which means learning to knit. Also - this thing is probably going to end up somewhere between 10 and 15 feet or longer, hence my need to learn how to knit NOW.

Yesterday I bought Knitting & Crocheting for Dummies and last night while rewil and I watched Wolf Creek and Hostel - oddly enough, very similar plots with the whole backpacking campery death thing, quite the coincidence on that rental front - I learned how to do a two strand cast on and made headway on the whole garterstitch thing. Today I even managed to produce several inches of practice whatever without gaining or losing a stitch. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot for the mysteries of purling. By the end of the week I should have changing yarn and binding off down and in theory scarf production could begin next week.

For some reason it's taking me longer to get through this knitting thing then it did to learn how to crochet - got that in a day. Of course I learned that right about the same time I first became a redhead, so...

Comments

[revena.livejournal.com]

I recommend knitting the Dr. Who scarf in the round, when you get there. Now that I've done a few different scarf projects, I can say with confidence that it will be less of a pain in the ass, as you won't have to seam it, and can just carry colors up the inside instead of weaving in ends.

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

In the round - would this be something tube like?

My sad little idiots guide here says nothing about in the round. Do you know of some place that has instructions?

[revena.livejournal.com]

It is indeed something tube-like, and is done on needles that are connected with a length of plastic or wire or whatever.

I will poke around and see if I can find a tutorial for it, but it's not that hard to figure out, once you've got basic knitting and purling down. If you get your hands on circular needles, you'll cast on, and then go "Oh, I see," I suspect.

[revena.livejournal.com]

http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/advanced_techniques/ has a good video showing the circular needle thing.

I assume you've already seen this: http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/index.html

If not, that might be a help to you, as well.

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links.

Yeah, I've been looking at the Doctor Who site, trying to get the husband to pick a season for his scarf. I think he's wanting something from around Seasons 12-14 but he's not sure yet. Then I need to find the appropriate colors, or as close as possible, at the Hobby Lobby and hope for the best.

It occurred to me that it probably would be cheaper to buy a scarf than to make one when all is said and done, but I'm trying to do the loving personalized thing.

Found a Pattern Yet?

[alex-shultz.livejournal.com]

Congrats on beginning to learn to knit.

I don't know if you have found a pattern for the scarf or not.

http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/instruct.html

There's some pattern info on the left side of the page for each of the scarves used in the different seasons.

If only you had some episodes of Tom Baker's Doctor Who to watch so that you could get a better look at the scarves in action. But there's probably no way to ever do that. ...sigh...