Time flies

A week since I last posted! I can't believe how time is flying. A sure sign that I'm getting old, it's whizzing by faster and faster.

I planned to post on Friday, but work intervened, and I've been away from the computer all weekend.  My camera was loaned to someone at work, who's managed to run the battery down.  I'm hoping that there's enough juice left for photos.

Knitting isn't really progressing.  I've three current wips which are all stocking stitch, as are my Vera socks, which is making me feel as if I only have one wip on the go - disastrous for me!   

The West Side Raglan (summer tweed, horrible to knit with) is slowly progressing. Here's the back. I've about 4 inches to do on the front before I hit the raglan shaping.  It was overcast and raining yesterday, so this is as near as I could get to an outdoors shot, at the front door! It's called the flung-on-the-floor shot, by the looks of it.

One of the Vera socks is finished.

I'm about to start the ribbed bottom on Something Red.

Decision time. 

I'm trying to finish one stashbusting project each month.  Henley, West Side Raglan and Something Red are all from stash, so now I have to decide which one I'll work on this week and finish........ and it's Something Red (because All Seasons Cotton is easier to work on than Summer Tweed, and I'm further on with this than the Henley top). Look out for an FO later on this week!

I found time to sit down and read Mason Dixon Knitting this weekend - what a treat!  The patterns are pretty basic and tend to be dishcloths, rugs, blanket squares - all very easy for anyone who isn't a beginner knitter, but the book's a delight to read, very humourous with lots of knitting tales and anecdotes. What's a knitter to do but start yet another project?  Off I went to the stash and found a couple of cones of texere cotton.

This will be a cotton rug for the bathroom at the stashflat. Next on the list are some more washcloths of course!

 

Comments

[Tracy]

Good choice with the ASC, you'll have that done and dusted in no time at all, no sweat! I do like Summer Tweed though, which reminds me, I have a nice little pile of the oatmeal colour upstairs.....

[francoise]

You're doing well with your stash-busting! Can't wait to see your FO soon...

[Mary]

Give me ASC over Summer Tweed any day - I can't stand knitting with Summer Tweed, although the colours are great. Look forward to seeing the finished rug as well.

[Brigid]

I like your rug. I've enjoyed reading the MDK book very much. As you say, the patterns are simple, but they're well chosen to be things that should actually work and look good. I played with a log cabin square and soon realised that you need the weights of the different colours to be the same - ideally all the same brand, I suppose. Using up odd balls didn't quite work!

[Linda]

Strangely, different colours of Summer Tweed feel different to me, while knitting. They were bought in different years, so maybe they changed the recipe. The more modern two, in Kim Hargreaves kits, felt fine, but the green one in discotinued Salad feels awful and scratchy. I think the newer ASC feels different too- more squeaky and synthetic. I'm sure Rowan wouldn't admit it, though.

[Jill]

That's odd, Linda - I've just finished a child's hooded top in ASC - most of it was done in old ASC from stash, but I bought two balls to do some stripes, and they felt quite different, as you say much more squeaky/plastic. I even looked at the ball band to see if Rowan had sneaked in a higher proportion of acrylic, but the recipe is the same.