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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
“…on end of the rainbow with a fortune to win; it’s so different from the world I’m living in…
Tag: Yellow
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies
Flowers On The Wall
The Name
Flowers On The Wall by The Statler Brothers
While the first thought that came to mind was Gryffindor, but in keeping with my naming conventions, I went with Flowers On The Wall, as the colors remind me of a sunflower.
The Scarf
Dimensions: 4 x 64 inches
Knit cast-on of nine stitches, worked in garter, alternating colors every two rows throughout. I might add fringe as I have an excess of yellow.
The Yarn
Lion Brand Hometown USA
Color: 219 Norfolk Merlot & 158 Pittsburgh Yellow; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: Super Bulky
I love this yarn for it’s softness and twist/ply. However, I won’t buy again unless I check the yardage. I had the yellow from a friend donation. I went JOANN‘s to buy a complimentary color. I did not notice until I got home that the yardage was different on the new skein: 64 merlot yards versus 84 yellow yards.
The perfect comment on modern economics: the cost of stuff keeps going up and they are giving us less. Disgusting!
What Difference Does It Make?
The Name
What Difference Does It Make? by The Smiths
I thought I was knitting along just fine and dandy until I noticed I had missed a stitch and thrown my seed stitch pattern off…grr! After making a stitch and resuming, my second thought was “what difference does it make?” No one will “see” the errors, especially with such a busy yarn?
The Cowl
Dimensions: 26-inch diameter x 5.5-inch width
Knit cast on 80 on a US 15-24-inch needle, and worked seed stitch throughout. Purl bind off.
The Yarn
Lion Brand Jiffy Thick & Quick
Color: 208 Rocky Mountains; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: 6, Super Bulky
Pussycat Meow
The Name
Pussycat Meow by Deee-Lite
Another tush that needs some cush!
The Tush Cush
Dimensions: 15 inches square
This time I created in double crochet for faster turnaround. It still took just as long as the single crochet, only because I had to recall to memory my Solid Granny Square pattern. Maybe I better write it down before dementia sets in.
Yarn
Caron Simply Soft
Color: Black; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: 4, Worsted
Red Heart Super Saver
Color: Yellow*; Content: 100% Acrylic; Weight: 4, Worsted
Those are the only two I could come close to guessing. All other yarns – red, orange, green-purple multicolor, red-blue multicolor, tan, pink, brown – were deemed by me, as worsted and man-made fibers, except the gold lace crocheted together with the black Caron.
Bread And Butter
The Name
Bread And Butter by The Newbeats
This was the closest I was able to associate with my music library, after searching yellow, plaid, gingham, square, checkers and finally butter.
The Afghan
Dimensions: 30 x 33 inches
This is my first plaid/gingham attempt. Being the king of scraps, I was had plenty of yellow scraps to work with. And because I like a challenge, even it is a coincidence, I am digging the gradients in this design: midtone: hue shift and undertone: light to dark – a gradi-plaid, ginghad, plaham?
The Yarn
Super Yarn Mart! Odd Balls
Color: Lemon Meringue*
Content: 100% miscellaneous odd lots of undetemined fiber content
Bucilla softex
Color: 26 [Butterscotch*]
Content: 100% Dupont Orlon Acrylic Fibre
All yarns were worsted/aran weights. I did not keep good track of the unlabeled yarns, as this was a learning project. All colors fall within the yellow-orange spectrum, including some self-named colors: Buttercup* and Gold.*
Below is the palette I worked from, incorporating lightest shades first.
Mellow Yellow
The Name
Mellow Yellow by Donovan
The association should be evident: yellow scarf; yellow name.
The Scarf
Dimensions: 4 x 68 inches
Cast on 16 stitches. Knit in garter. I started alternating Red Heart and Schachenmayr every two rows for eight repeats. Next I alternated Unknown yellow with Red Heart, followed by Unknown yellow alt Schachenmayr, Unknown yellow alt Unknown brown, Unknown brown alt Schachenmayr; and then back down the spectrum, and then up one more time.
The Yarns
Red Heart Sport
Color: 0230 Yellow
Content: 100% Acrylic
Weight: 2, Sport
Schachenmayr nomotto Brazilia Lungo
Color: 222
Content: 100% Polyester
Weight: 5, Bulky
Unknown Yellow
Color: Butterscotch*
Content: 100% Acrylic
Weight: 4, Worsted
Unknown Brown
Color: Caramel*
Content: 100% Acrylic
Weight: 4, Worsted
* Color name assignment per Hooker Leo, absent yarn label
