Monogamous Knitting

 

This last 10 days or so I have been mostly knitting on my Bluiri Cardigan I so want this cardi that I've been knitting and knitting. I'm using Adriafil Knitcol which I love, but which has caused a problem I may not be able to live with. It has pooled. One side of the front looks very different from the other front. I didn't notice it until I took a photo to send to my sister. It was so obvious. Since I've done the icord edging all round it it doesn't look as bad so I'll get the sleeves done and then decide whether or not to keep it.

Although monogamous knitting is fine and dandy I did decide to take a break yesterday and knit up this hat. It took no time at all,  just a couple of hours. It's the Snap Hat by Tin Can Knits, using in my case, 2 strands of different yarn for a marled effect on 5.5mm needles. Quick, easy and very satisfying. Its a great stash buster and definitely useful for my hats for the homeless challenge this year.

Wherever you are and whatever you are doing I hope you have a good week.

What's On My Needles?

 Another grey day here in Worcestershire. I have spent the morning dyeing up some more gradient with speckles yarn, in a glorious pink this time. It's still in the slow cooker getting all steamy.

Two projects are occupying my knitting time at the moment. Firstly I'm knitting up some of my own dyed yarn with my own pattern. Hopefully this will be a sample for kits. It's the Ten Bump Shawl  which I created to show off the Urth Yarns that my sister and I have a shop shelf for at Cromford Mill, Derbyshire in Weaveknitit. The yarn is a 4 ply in the colour 'Dahlia Garden'.

The second WIP is the socks I put on last weeks post. Still knitting but I have put in the short row heel, not on the pattern but the heel I prefer, and am working my way down the foot. They will be finished very soon.

There is one more WIP which I could finish today if I got on with it,  As this needs to be done by Saturday, it's for my granddaughter, and I'm seeing her on Sunday I really should get on with it.

Grey Monday

 Tis a very grey and dull day here in Worcestershire, I was thinking of going outside to clear out the greenhouse today but the weather is so bleugh that I'm not feeling the love for that idea. Instead I have been playing with my dye pots. Two skeins of dip dyed red and green, a skein of aran I used to mop up excess dye from the pot and a dye mop, all drying.

The day is so grey that this photograph of my Easy Mosaic Socks, free pattern, courtesy of Winwick Mum. Makes the solid colour look blue. It is infact a gorgeous turquoise, this is a lovely quick and easy knit to brighten up a dull day. This is the pattern that many knitters have chosen to take part in the Winter Haven KAL Hopefully  the sun will shine again and then I shall take another picture to show off the colours.

This post is a tentative step towards increasing my presence on the webs as I try to launch my embryonic yarn dyeing business. Nothing to see yet but soon I hope to have an Etsy shop open and lovely yarns to look at and purchase.