Suelas Shoes and Sangria

When I originally packed my Suelas shoes into my suitcase It never occurred to me just how fun taking product shots on the road could be. Here I am wearing my Mustard Corte Shoes whilst drinking Sangria. (yes the Sangria drinking was necessary for the photo shoot)

These shoes are comfortable for walking and made with leather inner made made leather upper and rubber soles. Even though they are flat i found walking in them to be same as all my other flats.

They are bright enough to stand out with the simplest of clothing making me feel fashion forward (even in unwashed jeans and un-ironed suitcase clothing)

I also packed the Blue and cream Barka Shoe as shown here which I featured in my seaside outings to the coast of Spain. Check out the no Football sign which made us laugh little seeing as football crazed Spain is. (it might have been all the sangria at lunch that made it funny)

So for travelling with style I would (without hesitation) give these shoes a thumbs up, they held there own on the cobbled roads with just a few scuffs here and there. The main joy with these foldable shoes is that they allowed me the freedom to pack several different styles of shoes because of how little space they took up in my luggage and purse.

Here is my original post about these Suelas shoes in “travelling-with-kids-whats-in-my-suitcase” blog post.

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If you’ve been around here long, you know that I’m in a perpetual battle with my stash. I feel like I haven’t bought yarn in years unless I needed it for a specific project. I knit fairly a lot, and crochet some, too, but it feels like my stash never gets any smaller.

It’s not just the unused balls of yarn that are a problem. In fact, maybe a bigger issue is all the odd balls and leftover bits that seem to pile up without any effort. Even though I love scrappy projects (and knit a whole sweater dress with scraps earlier this year) it still feels like a never-ending quest to use up all the little bits.

So I’m always on the lookout for good patterns that are made to use of the extra bits of yarn. If they are super easy, too, that’s so much the better.

So it is with the Lalu Scarf by Sheena Stone. This any yarn, any gauge pattern is designed to use up whatever scraps you have on hand (assuming they’re mostly the same weight or can be held double to make the same weight).

It’s a tube scarf worked in the round, and she specifically notes that she works it outside in, so the back of the scarf is on the outside as you knit. The needle tips are on the part of the circle farthest away from you as you knit.

It also has an attached I-cord edging, which sounds really time consuming but does give the edges a nice, finished look.

The way the colors are changed as you knit you don’t really need a lot of each color. It would probably be good if you had at least enough of a color to complete one round, but you can change colors more often than every round if you need to because you’re using all your tiny bits.

Grab the free pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sheena Stone.]

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