skein

Mid week catch-up

I finished the knitting on Audrey in Unst over the weekend.  I need to darn in the ends, and give it a good blocking. It seems quite small!  I know it's meant to be fitted, but still...  I've ordered 12 buttons today, so this will be done very soon. I just forgot to take a photo.

Sock knitting is progressing slowly,  Who knew it took so long to knit a plain sock>  These are for Mr.C>, but I think he may be disappointed in the lack of brightness.  Just a splash of yellow, one of his favourite colours.

And I've started a garment!  Not one for me, but one for an 18 month old little girl.  I'm knitting at a slightly tighter tension, so I've gone up to a 2 year old size.  Probably more useful for the late summer, in a larger size. I'm thinking of just knitting elbow length sleeves too, so she can wear it for longer.  You can't really see much from this photo, but it's a top down cardigan with ruffled sections, a bit like the Tea Leaves cardigan. I'm using some stashed Louisa Harding Kashmir, in a red-pink colour. Very easy knitting.

And i've swatched for my next adult garment. I'm pretty sure that I can get tension in Kauni for my sleeveless top, but the other one, a yellow summer cardigan, was hopelessly out in tension. I've washed it and will measure it to see if it's grown 50% in row tension!

Kujeillen Mitts

Pattern: Kujeillen Mitts, part of the ravelry FGF group May KAL

Start/finish: 6-11 May

Needles: 2.5mm

Yarn:  Yarn Yard;s SSS2 yarn.  I'm falling behind, this is the February yarn!

A quick, easy knit. I completely messed up the narrow pattern panel though!  The amoujtn of time I spent dropping and reknitting stitches, and still managed to have a loose stitch sticking out when I'd finished!  I had to go back in and try to catch it and somehow secure it. Bah!  Good job these are mine!

This is the yarn from last month's frogged Mystery cowl, much better uese of it with these mitts. 

 

Not much knitting done at all this week

I've not accomplished much at all this week.  Last night I was fuming at the lack of wifi and how frustrating it is trying to call helplines, or grapple with a mountain of twisted leads. 

I have a sock in progress though. Just a plain ribbed, top down sock for Mr C.   That's yellow, not orange by the way!

Audrey's second sleeve is nearly done. Just 12 more cuff rows to go. This weekend I'll tackle the borders.  Dare I hope that I'll finish the knitting this weekend???

I quite fancy casting on another gament but can't make up my mind whether to opt for a yellowy summery cardigan or a woolly one.  I plan, at some stage this year, to knit a So Not Me garment.  The style isn't one I would normally choose (sleeveless) and the colours are certainly Not Me - creams and mustard!  But I really liked the pattern photo, in that colour, so went and bought the the samel colours.  I really ought to be knitting from stash..

A few weeks ago I was on ravelry searching for a project I'd knitted a few years ago, and have decided to do a weekly post on projects revisited. Not necessarily those which are much-loved, or difficult, or time consuming, but whatever takes my fancy. I've been a member of ravelry since 2007, so have lots of projects there, and possibly more elsewhere, It seems a shame to knit then blog and then forget about them all.  Some I can't even remember knitting!  So I'll be thinking of that over the next week, see what happens and how I'll sift through the ravelry projects. I just hope I have tagged things! 

Audrey in Unst progess

I've had a pretty productive weekend.   I finished the mitts I was working on, and tried to take some photos yesterday, but they were out of focus and looked a bit big on my hands. I think that's down to wearing them when they were still wet!  Stretchy wool!  I'll try to get some more this week, when they're dry!  Meanwhile we have a photo of the first mitt off the needles as a teaser.

Yesterday I had more Audrey progress.  I've finished the first sleeve and started the second. They're narrow and shortish, so they don't take much time once I get on with it.   Hopinv to finish the second sleeve this week, ready for just the bands at the weekend. Getting there...

I tried it on last night and it's a bit worrying, it seems to be all the wrong shape and was ridign up at the back. I hope it's down to no bands!  Still resisting the urge to cast on the next cardigan.

Apart from Audrey I have only plain socks on the go!  Time to scout around for a baby cardigna for a quick mid year gift to someone.

 

 

 

Audrey progress (or lack of!)

I had plans. Which would have meant comfortably finishing Audrey in May.

Plans involved using the weekends, when there was natural light, for the bits of knitting which involved picking up stitches.

So, last weekend went well.  I picked up the stitches for the sleeve and started the short rowing sleeve cap shaping (which is dead easy).  I intended to knit this first sleeve during the week, ready to pick up stitches for the second sleeve this weekend.

I've done hardly any sleeve knitting though!

Actually, at this stage I have another 29 rows of stocking stitch, and 36 rows of twisted ribbing to go (if my row tension is ok). 

However, at midnight last night I took a good look at the knitting and made one of those middle of the night decisions. I wasn't taken by the fake seam purl stitch on the sleeve. Before frogging back to the start of the sleeve I thought I'd try dropping the stitch down and crocheting the stitch as a knit stitch. A tiny trial showed it looked better than the purl stitch (especially when stretched out) and I'm sure after a few washes it will even out.  So I dropped the stitch,  Not just down the sleeve, but continued down the fake side seams too!

 

In hindsight I could have done a ptbl, which would have been tighter than a purl,, but I'm not going to do that now!

Let's see how much I can knit tonight! I won't start another cardigan until it's done!