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 …
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Sky and Water II
It’s done, and blocking – to 9″ by 46″ Photo in artificial lighting, with flash. I’ll try to get daylight shots later. It was a bit of a marathon :-} Onward! I shall try to finish the second Morning Surf tomorrow, but it’s only half done, maybe less.
Sky and Water II
Sky and Water II is on the way and I have cast on and knit the first pattern repeat. I chose a blue/grey shade this time. I shall need to complete at least one pattern repeat a day. Judging by today’s performance, that’s aiming high. It’s funny – the first scarf caused me very few …
No prizes for guessing
Nobody guessed why “Sky and Water” before the scarf was finished (Yay – I get to keep all of my cashmere!), and now that I have set up a new Ravelry project for the second version and have Sky and Water I and Sky and Water II in place, it should be pretty obvious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_and_Water_II …
Some FOs
Water and Sky looks fantastic. It weighs just 18 grams, and therefore cost me a snip of a £1.26. It’s very inexpertly blocked, but I didn’t see much point in wasting effort on it, plus putting it under too much tension would have made the hole worse. If I can repair it well, then I …
Tragedy
I washed and blocked my scarf and socks today. The socks are much improved for it. The scarf? Well, basically it looks terrific. But I found a hole! About one quarter in from one end – a large hole with around four stitches running. I have no idea if I am skilled enough to repair …