I was so bloody creative this weekend. Yay.

I finished my sari-silk wrist-warmers this weekend. And spent Sunday wearing them because it was a freakin’ -40° C outside Sunday morning.

And then I wore them at work today. And one of the PMs admired them, calling them ‘hardcore’.

It’s a modification of Cheryl Niamath’s ‘Fetching’ pattern, published in knitty. Except that because I was using the recycled sari silk, which is very wiry and expands the guage, I knitted it in 36 stitches. And because the silk’s thickness was too variable to count on my guage I used a 1×1 rib for maximum stretchiness. And because it was too fuzzy to make cables very visible, I replaced all the cabling rows with [*k2, yfwd rep from *] — which was still not very visible, but had the effect of slightly loosening the cuff.

Now, I have three more balls of sari-silk, but they’re all kind of different tones. I’ve been kind of torn. Do I want leg-warmers? Or do I want to knit them all into a little vest. I’m thinking preppy, scoop-necked, the kind of thing you’d wear over a white shirt. But colorful and fuzzy. Whatever I do, I’ll have to stripe it to make up for the non-matchingness of the combined yarns.

See actually, this picture does a better job of showing how the colors change:

And that’s all within one ball. The other balls are quite different – one is slightly red, one is kind of peachy and one is kind of turquoisey, as much as any of them can be categorized in one color.