The knitting part of Hey Teach is done. This is number 7 of 12. Just buttons and seaming and it's finished! I'll probably do that next weekend. It's been more knitting than anticipated, the back has been knitted twice (i.e. frogged and reknitted) and the sleeves were partially frogged too. I thought I'd knit 3/4 sleeves, had a change of heart and went for elbow length instead, had another change of heart and went shorter, about 2.5" longer than the short sleeves in the pattern.
The colour is purple! Not as blue as in this photo. Blame it on the evening light.
Now onto number 8. It's cast on and it's Tide, by Louise Harding, knitted in her Glisten yarn which is a type of ribbon yarn, not my favourite to knit with. It unravels madly, it's slow knitting and my tension is to pot! I could of course put it in a bag, or in a pop sock, but I can't be bothered.
One more thing about this yarn ... ... ... it's sparkly! I don't know if it's that obvious in this close up.
It's been on my list for ages, so I'm pleased that it's finally on the needles. At the moment I'm liking the knitting, but this may change, once the novelty has worn off, and I'm on the boring stocking stitch bit!
Ooh the hey teach is gorgeous! How on earth do you knit that fast? I'll send you my WIPs for the ravelry wrestlemania LOL. The tide cardi looks like if will be a lovely cool cover up too :o)
Posted by: Fiona | July 03, 2009 at 09:02 PM