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Follow my Arrow MKAL progress

Three clues knitted.

 

Clue one - option B

Prety regualr shape.

Then onto clue 2.  Option B.

This has short rows in garter stitch.  I keep checking and rechecking the pattern.  All of the short rows are on one side, which makes me uneasy. I love symmetry!  Hope this is correct...

Last night I finished clue 3, option B. There wasn't much difference in the patterns this week, both lace (though my scrunched up shawl isn't showing any lace!).  

I took this photo before leaving for work.  Curtains still closed, and the colours look so different.  The grey has a touch of pink in it, but (on my monitor at least) it looks quite pale blue.

Just two more clues to go, I think!

NaKniMitMo Nordasno mittens

 

My second pair for NaKniMitMo!  These are the Nordasno mittens.  

 I was a winner in last year's NaKniMitMo, and won this lovely kit from Nordic Fiber Arts.  I've waited until this year's NaKniMitMo before starting these, well worth the wait, and a quick knit too.  

 I've had to take an indoor photo - missed the opportunity to take one on Saturday, when we had actual sunshine.  Oh well.  I've also failed in the blocking stage, toom, buy it means you can see the side pattern!  I've been wearing them this week, our weather's been a bit chilly.

The yarn is Rauma 3ply Strikkegarn and is wonderful for mittens. quite a sturdy little yarn. 

Well, no more mittens knitted this month.   I had a Mystery Mitten on the go, but kept dithering about the yarn choices, and making so many mistakes I cut the yarn and pulled them off the needles!  So I'm back to just three WIPS - Babette, Kraka and the MKAL Follow my Arrow.  Will I last?????

Love them!

NaKniMitMo Myrten Mittens

These have been finished for a few weeks, but I've been too disorganised to get around to washingthem and then bringing them into work for a daylight photo 

Finally!  My Myrten mittens!

 

The yarn is Easyknits Big Boy.   It's like a heavy 4ply, not quite a sportweight, though I have used it at a l

fore. 

Stay tuned - I have antoher finished pair!  I'm now in a rush to get them posted and up on ravelry before the end of NaKniMitMo!

 

Knitting catch up

My mitten nitting for NaKniMitMo is progressing. Not quickly, but I reckon that I'll be able to knit three pairs this month.  
Still waiting for #1 pair to dry, the Myrten Mittens.

The first mitten for pair #2 is finished.  I started the decreases three rows earlier, as I thought that they'd be too long. Not.  I should have put the thumb stitches on a needle and tried them on properly!  I think I'll leave them as is, as the edns are darned. in.  Love the thumb!

Needless to say that they need a bit of blocking.

And I've started a third pair!  These ones are a MKAL in the I Love Mittens ravelry group.  I bought the pattern, but abandoned them on my first attempt. I've since looked at spoilers and restarted them this weekend.  Just the cuffs done so far.

Finally, a non mitten project.  This is another MKAL, this time a shawl. It's Ysolda's Follow your Arrow shawl.  Each of the five clues has two options, so there's 32 variations.  

Clue 1, option B,  The colours aren't as contrasting as they seem to be in the photo. 

Clue 2 is in my inbox, better get a move on!

Naknimitmo

I've finished the first pair of mittens (I need to wash them and get photos, please wish for a dry and bright day!) and I'm onto my second pair now. They're the Nordasno Mittens, a prize from last year's NaKniMitMo! 

It's a kit, and I must say, I really like this Rauma 3ply Strikkegarn, it's great for stranded mittens.  I opted for black mitten with white foreground, and I'm pleased with the results so far.  It's quite a sturdy yarn and as it's about dk weight, means that the mittens should be fairly quick to knit.  This is my progress in two work-day evenings, with not a lot of knitting time. 

Back of hand

Palm of the hand

Can you see that it has a  sort of thumb gusset?  But no stitches on hold  as you'd usually have, with a lesser number for the hand.  I don't htink it's going to make much difference though.  

I intend starting a third pair this weekend!

Boo Humbug!

At last!  The weater held and we could go outside and take a few photos of this scarf.  Though a bit too cold to hang around...

 

This was a Booknits KAL in December, a great way to relax before Christmas.   I used the yarn specified, thought I'd treat myself. It's Fyberspates Faery Wings 4ply, a silk/kid mohair blend.  The colour is MAGENTA and not hot pink as it looks in these photos!   The yarn is surprisingly not at all itchy.  Unlike Rowan's Kid Silk Haze, which I find irritates me, this feels lovely and soft against the skin.

The length is variable in the central section of the scarf. I chose to make mine long, and used the entire first skein.  It's long.

I can wear it doubled

But I'm more likely to wear it wrapped around my neck

Though possibly TWICE around the neck, so that I can admire the lace and beadwork a bit better.

Because that's the best bit, the lovely lace and beads!  

 

I suspect that there may be more Booknits knitting in my future. 

NaKniMitMo

It's January, which means NaKniMitMo, a month of knitting mittens! 

I can't believe that it's the 10th and I've really not done much knitting at all.  Just one and a bit mittens, so far.  OK, I don't do much during the week, but I've had three whole days to knit,   

These are the Myrten mittens, which have been I didn't get around to knitting last January.  I keep going wrong, yet the pattern is very easy, just follwing a simple chart with two colours!

And of course I have only  indoor photos.  

One down

and a bit of the second mitten

My weekend plans are to finish these mittens, start another pair, and possilby take some photos of my Noo Humbug scarf, weather permitting.  

Better Together Shawl

 

Finally, photos of my December Mystery Shawl KAL. Better Together.   I finished this on 15th December, but have only just managed to get outside and take some photos, with daylight, no rain and a little bit of wind!  Really, it has been too dark, wet and windy on my days not at work!

Anyway here she is.   

This was the first of four MKALs.  The next one starts in February.

I used up some stashed anonymous wool, always a good thing. 

It's a garter stitch shawl, easy knitting as long as you keep your eye out for the slipped stitches,  with two options for the top part of the shawl, either garter/slipped or garter/travelling stitches.  It's alwso bottom up, a huge pain when starting but I really LOVE decreasing as my motivation to a new project wains.

And you really can't notice the last two rows (before working in just one coour) is a different shade, can you?  I ran out of the burgundy yarn, but found one very similar!