Small triangular shawl from handspun yarn. I made this from the BFL tops that I was given when I was learning to spin. I made a 2ply of roughly 18 WPI with it. Another project that took a long time to come to fruition. I had a couple of false starts with this but it went very quickly once I made my mind up to settle to it.
FO: Pink Swallowtail Shawl
A second Swallowtail Shawl, much finer than the first - and pretty in pink... Details and gallery.
Cracking on
Still suffering from this wretched tiredness that has bugged me all week, but have been able to push myself to achieve some positive outcomes today. Made tomato pasta (tagliatelle) for dinner, and a chilli, tomato and prawn sauce to go with it. The lawn was mowed, though not by me - I just cleaned up …
Did I say..?
Did I mention that when I was skeining the grey 4ply, a moth dropped out of my swift? A MOTH. I quickly eBay-ed an order of Rentokil moth-killer strips. Six twin packs, in fact. I now have to consider the best way to deploy them, and then get on with it! Also, did I remember …
New Vistas
It has been quite a week. At the weekend I had my broken washing line repaired, so I seized advantage of the better weather and did laundry. Loads and loads of it. Day after day… as weather permitted. We have suffered a great deal of har recently, and also had heavy rainfall one day (don’t …
FO: Man Sweater
DK man's sweater in New Lanark Donegal Silk Tweed. This project took a long time to come to fruition, though the actual knitting was very fast. Enjoyable knit, I would make it again. Mr L loves it. I gave him the sweater to try on for size as I finished seaming it. It took a long time to get it back from him for washing.