In which I actually knit something and also find some yellow and orange around the house

Yes, the slightly misshapen object below is a “necklace” for my iPod shuffle, based on Kristi’s Nano Necklace. All the lumpy lopsidedness is my own doing – Kristi’s Nano Necklace is gorgeous! What I needed was something to hold my shuffle while I walk around the Lakes this spring and what I got is very functional for that purpose. It was knit flat on an Addi Turbo 2mm for the body and Inox steel 1.75mm for the i-cord. The yarn is Regia Cotton Jacquard leftover from the first pair of fingering weight socks I ever knit (awwwww…..).

Please excuse the lighting – it was a bit dark outside when I finished…

Moving right along to Project Spectrum’s April colors of yellow and orange, Peeve started things out right by sending me this fabulous color appropriate card:

See Chaos there in the middle, begging? I think he’s flanked by Jeanne’s cats Bugsy and Pud. 🙂

I didn’t think I had much yellow and orange around and feared I would be reduced to taking pictures of the lemon dish soap and the Saran Wrap box. However, I did find a few things. Here’s a little cat sculpture that usually sits way up high, out of Chaos’ reach:

And here’s most of the yellow and orange media I found. Heck, there’s even some yellow in the upholstery on my futon couch that I hadn’t really noticed before:

“Whoa, what’s all this stuff on the coffee table?!”

“And the winner of the Chaos Booker Sniffer Prize is Children of God Go Bowling by Shannon Olson!”

32 thoughts on “In which I actually knit something and also find some yellow and orange around the house”

  1. Dear Chaos,
    I’m glad you have generally decent sniffer sense, however, don’t you know that sequels are never as good as originals? Tell your human to go find the original Shannon Olson book for you to sniff.
    Yours,
    A friend with dogs

  2. Chris – great pictures. I love that postcard! Perfect…….with Chaos right there in the middle!

    And thanks for the link to the Nano cover. I think my IPOD mini needs one of them there things………(can you tell I’ve been in the country, or whatnot?)

  3. Your Shuffle Necklace is great! I like the stripey effect of that yarn.

    I thought Yellow and Orange was going to be rough aside from DH and I’s love of orange/rust clothing, but I’m finding much more of that than I would have thought!

  4. I’ve really enjoyed how Project Spectrum has made me look for specific colors. Last month I felt surrounded by red and pink. This month I feel the same way about yellow and orange. It’s so cool!

  5. I didn’t think I had much yellow or orange round the house but now I’ve seen your entry, I realise that there is lots of it!
    Chaos looks very curious today!

  6. You should let Chaos choose your reading for a month & see what happens. Perhaps he’s really an erudite medieval scholar trapped in the body of a cat. 😉

  7. Lovely card! Tell Chaos to come over here and sniff out what I should make for dinner tonight, what movie Hoop and I should watch, and what clothes I should wear tomorrow. 😉

  8. Thanks for posting that link to the Nano-Necklace. I just got one for the b-day, was experimenting how to manuever the thing around, and bam! that is just PERFECT.

  9. I think a lot of people are finding the same thing – lots of yellow and they never noticed it before… I think it is just because it is a great complementary color. Thanks for showing some of the colors in your world! Chaos is a very literate cat! 🙂

  10. if i were spectruming, i’d have to take pics of my saran wrap! good thing i didn’t join. the big question is if you’re going to knit anything with orange or yellow in it?

  11. today i wore my bright yellow rain slicker (or as we say in new england, my slickah) and paid for parking by taking money out of my orange wallet. it is pretty cool though the way each month’s colors make you notice the color in your world even when you didn’t think you had any.

  12. I didn’t join Project Spectrum because I knew I didn’t have enough orange and yellow and red to get it all done. You’re scoffing, but it’s true.

    Chaos gives you the same sort of looks my cats give me when I take knitting photos. “What the hell is she up to NOW? Can’t she see it would be wiser to just feed the cats?”

  13. The Shuffle Tote is darling. Now I must have one, I usually just stick mine in my pocket and try not to swing my arms to broadly when I walk…

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