Recent success with my skeins has fired my enthusiasm for knitting with my handspun. The first project is to be a Fafner cushion, from Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns for Knitting book. Currently in Beta, I am knitting a practice piece with my Cheviot 2 ply. I cast it on last night and have almost finished …
Madness
I begin to doubt my sanity in attempting this second Hamsa scarf. Eight rows. EIGHT rows, that's all I have managed. It's not the sum total of knitted/tinked rows by any means. *sigh* It's mainly a matter of eyesight, available light, and fiddly-slippery-ness. I a knitting on 2.75mm bamboo needles, which are far too blunt …
A Tumult of Waves
Finished Object! Morning Surf Scarf pattern, adapted for size only. Knitted in Colourmart Cashmere 2/28 NM, held double. Seven colours, mixed in various combinations. Blocked to 74" by 15.5". Ravelry project: A Tumult of Waves Made for the Item from 100 gms Wool class in the annual show, 1st August 2008. Entered despite a glaring …
Show Day
Three Firsts, and two Thirds. Not a bad haul. Sadly, only one Third with my knitting - the drop stitch wrap that I laboured on at the last minute. I guess it must have been worth it. Also a Third for one of my photographs. Another photo took a First, as did one of my …
Ravelympics?
A quick look at Ravelry shows that I now have just the one WIP. The BSJ needs a few rows to see it finished - maybe half an hour's work. I could cast on a new project. Or I could sign up for the WIPS wrestling event in the Ravelympics and tackle some of my …
Almost ready
I gave up on the Morning Surf wrap at 9:30 this morning, and washed and blocked it. It blocked to 74" by 16", which is just about the right length but 3 inches or so too narrow, really. It's dry now and labelled and packed. Photos after the Show. Sadly, I found a large and …