Posted in FO's, Knitting on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In my current drive to finish up some projects, the Fairisle Vest is done.
Pattern: RALPH from Rowan Classic Summer (modified)
Needles: 2.75 and 3.25mm CircularYarn: Soft Shetland by Lang Yarns
The pictures are of my usual quality.
Well, I modified almost all of this pattern with the exception of the fairisle design and even then I swapped [...]
Posted in Just life, Knitting on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, the cat knows what to do..
I did let her sit there for a while I admit. I just didn’t have the heart to throw her off seeing as the weather is being so awful, even though she had just come in from the garden and was rather wet! She had been chasing off another [...]
Posted in Home education, Knitting on July 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to the inspirational thought of Sarah, I steamed the sweater a little to see if would improve the look of the three colour section. It did. It probably will benefit from a good soak but at least it has proved to me that all is not lost and has inspired me on. Thanks Sarah.
After [...]
Posted in Knitting on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ll make this quick as I should really be doing other things such as teaching, (or my version of it anyway) but, is it traditional to have three colours in a row when knitting fairisle? Or when the designer states ‘Fairisle, based on a very traditional shetland pattern’ am I taking this whole traditional bit [...]
Posted in Just life, Knitting on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am nearly there with the shawl, and almost there with the back of the handspun sweater. I also have one bobbin to go to finish spinning for the sweet pea sock, but, I had a bad day Thursday and not much of a better one on Friday (visiting a very sick father is not [...]
Posted in Knitting on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I must admit that I am a little uncomfortable with calling this a ‘Shetland Shawl’ as technically it is a ‘Shetland patterned shawl’ as it is knitted from merino, but perhaps I’m just being picky.
I finished the body of the shawl on Friday evening. I didn’t get much more of anything done over the weekend, [...]
Posted in Knitting, Socks, Spinning on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ending up as Sweet Peas.And no, there are no flowers in this post.
Dyeing and I are uncomfortable bed fellows. I’m not good with colour, as I think I’ve said, but from time to time I get the urge to dye something. I’ve dyed wool tops, silk yarn and sock yarn, all are still in my [...]
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