Archive for June, 2008
Prize
Let’s talk about yarn….again. Not mine this time. This is for whoever wins of my competition. Natural Dye Studio sock yarn. Along with this…..
…….Fyberspates laceweight. Come on, you know you want it! Less than 4 hours to guess.
Back tomorrow with the details of the winner and my Woolfest yarn haul!
eta Competition now closed. Well done [...]
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Important stuff
The knitters in this house are a little excited today. We’ll be setting off for Woolfest in about 4 hours, and Lily and I can’t wait to meet some other knitters/bloggers. Apart from my mum, we pretty much knit in isolation at the moment. I’ve been unsuccessful in forcing encouraging any of my friends into [...]
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Trekking
Not a lot of pattern to see yet, but eventually this will be Crosshatch Lace from More Sensational Knitted Socks. The yarn, which is Trekking XXL is without doubt my favourite machine-dyed sock yarn. Yarn snobbery aside, it’s a nice stress free experience knitting with this. Hand-dyed yarns are beautiful but there’s always the issue of [...]
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A competition
I seem to have a real blue thing going on at the moment. This is the upper half of Favour - where all the action is. It was such a relief to get to the cabling after the seemingly endless bottom half! I’m loving the way the cables look, and they should stand out even more [...]
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Concentration
You can see it on her face can’t you?
Lily has her first dressage test tomorrow morning. As we still haven’t found her another pony she is riding a mare that belongs to someone else. By all accounts Bailey is a bit of a ‘whizzier’ ride than Lily is used to so fingers crossed everyone that she doesn’t [...]
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Kidlin
So I’ve finally found a pattern for the Kidlin. I pored over Victorian lace Today for ages but all the patterns in there include knitted on borders. I don’t much fancy trying to pick up hundreds of stitches with this hairy yarn so I’ve cast on for Icarus instead. It’ll be a relaxing mindless knit for [...]
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Just plain
I’ve given up trying to find a pattern to suit this yarn. After 4 different patterns (all of which were totally obscured by the colour changes) I’ve finally got the message that sometimes simple is best. And knitting a plain sock can be quite therapeutic I think. This is nearly the last of the Natural Dye Studio [...]
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Vertical waffle
Pattern: Vertical Waffle from More Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch.
Yarn: The Natural Dye Studio. Blue-faced Leicester.
Needles: 2.5mm
I very nearly caught the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome with these. I’m not normally susceptible to it, but I didn’t exactly fall in love with either the yarn or the pattern. That said, I quite like the finished [...]
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Brea
Oh how I do torment my children! Doesn’t she look a doll?
Pattern: Brea
Yarn: Rowan all-seasons cotton. Dusk. 2 skeins.
Needles: 5mm.
Modification: I used a medium-weight interfacing on the lining.
OK…so hands up anyone who laughed out loud when I said I chose this project for ‘instant gratification’! Why oh why did I choose the lining of this [...]
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Unknown territory
This is Brea. I cast on for this in the middle of preparing last nights dinner. You know. Like you do. Surprisingly, I knit one half of the bag within a few hours. I forced myself to do the gusset next, as a few hundred rows of moss stitch left till the end would see this project festering well [...]
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