Movie knitting
As you might remember, I have been at the movie theater 5 times in the past couple of weeks:
Sweeney Todd
Juno
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything
and of course at the movies you need knitting, right? Stockinette knitting? So of course I had to start a new project. I actually only knit this at the last 3 movies, but it’s done! Presenting the Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet:
It was funny, because of the two other groups that were with us at the Veggie Tales movie (not as bad as I might have expected), one of the moms was a knitter too! She came up to me in the beginning and said she should have brought her knitting too, and we commiserated on the need for knitting while watching a movie. Of course this was also the first time I actually lost my yarn while in the theater, but I had to chase after IM who kept running around. Got to love kids movies.
Here’s another interesting fact. You probably won’t believe this, but this “capelet” (shortened raglan, of course) was knit with two different yarns! When I was looking for a quick project to bring to the movies, I grabbed this Schoeller and Stahl Volare Mouline that I bought in Portland, and since the original was knit with 1 1/2 skeins of Rowan Polar, I thought my 3 skeins of Volare would be fine.
Uh, no. I ran out near the end, and was thinking about using a contrasting color, probably black, but wasn’t sure. I went into my stash, and lo and behold this Online Montana was almost exactly the same color!
It is nicer, actually, as it is 50% wool and 50% acrylic, while the Volare is 25% wool and 75% acrylic, but really at home and even sometimes outside I couldn’t tell the difference! Can you?
There is a very slight difference, besides materials, and that is the Montana has a stripe of orange/brown along with the red, purple and pink but it is so close! And I used up 4 balls of stash! (Don’t ask about the destashing I helped someone out with last week … more to come on that.) I’m working on fingerless gloves with the remaining Montana, if there is enough.
I feel so prolific this year!
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I’ve never knit during a movie at a theater before. Of course, I haven’t been to a theater in a while. Very cute capelet! I’m glad you found a suitable yarn in your stash.
Oh, lucky you found something suitable!! Hmm, maybe it isn’t so bad adding to your stash as part of helping someone else destash.
Wow! You are on a knitting roll! That caplet is really cool looking, I could NOT tell it was different yarns! SO neat!
Never have knit in a theater, but then again I haven’t been to a movie in a while.