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Baby things and shawls

A couple of baby hats

These only took a few hours, but OF COURSE I had a lot of reknitting to do. It was only when I entered the project on ravelry that I ralised I'd been working with a dk yarn, and attempting to get a 4ply tension. Ooops.

A baby cardigan

Not a success.  It's top down, and with no fronts means that there's lots of stress under the armholes. In cotton Not Good.  I don't particularly think it's a great shape either. Now a shorter, shrug like baby cardigan would be great. 

And shawls. 

I've frogged my plae blue Seasilk shawl, Twice. Given up now, am very fed up with pale blue Seasilk!

So I've picked up my So I Gather.  Wool, and not pale! This small shawl is started at one end, you knit until you're nearly out of yarn and cast off, so I should be able to use it all up.

This is bedtime on Tuesday:

On top, the shawl, on bottom, the sock blank. 

This is on my to-do list for July. Three evenings left (as of Wednesday monring).  Imagine my dismay when I weighed the sock blank - 50g!  Halfway there. i could have sworn that I was more like 70T done!

I'm a bit more hopeful this morning. I managed to knit 17g last night (no mean feat when I have just a little knitting time) and we're now left with just this much sock blank.

Tonight, the boring dark plain bit, and tomorrow I'll be back in bright!

On the needles

Which means that I don't have anything finished..  Well, I do, that frontless baby cardigan, but I keep forgetting to take photos before work! I plan to knit a few basic baby hats as well, one in blue and one in pink.  Just have to find time to do it!

I've really only worked on my Fine Sands cardigan and a small shawl this past week.

Fine Sands - now separated sleeves from body and am working on the body. It's just stocking stitch, with a pattern row every six rows. A bit boring, but handy for mindless knitting. 

My samll shawl has morphed from Nature's Lace to Beautiful Cobweb over the weekend.  I found the yarn/stitch pattern combination of Nature's Lace a bit frustrating. When the stitches slid off the needles (too short - 60cm!) I gave up and remembered that I had intended to knit Beautiful Cobweb!  And it's going so much better. The garter stitch section. increase row and set up row are all done. Just the more interesting lace bit left. No photos yet... 

And socks. Plain grey socks. Very boring.  

I'm going to concentrate on my shawl until it's finished and then do a few baby hats. It's Seasilk and if I remember correctly, it might take a day to dry. Wonder if I can knit it all by Saturday??  

 

 

Havra Shawl

Here's my Havra Shawl, which was Shetland Trader's MKAL  in June. 

The yarn's Skein Queen's cashmere and is buttery soft. I can't wait for winter so that I can wrap it around my neck!

It's surprisingly larger than I thought, as I knitted the small size and ran out of the first shade of yarn, ended up knitting 1.5 repeats less than the small size. I had to fiddle aroun with the stitch count for the next clue, but it's all worked out well. 

There's a little bit of yarn overing, but this is mostly a textured shawl, with twisted ribbing. I won't be doing any ptbl in the near future!

Stretching myself too thinly

Knitting progress is Nil.  I'm fluttering between too many WIPs.  Those days of multiple WIPs are long gone. It freaks me out to have more than two or three these days!  And my old, tired brain takes more time to pick up where I left off.  I really ought to make notes!

So time to plan!  

Instead of knitting aimlessly, I shall try to stick to a plan.

1) Finish my frontless baby cardigan (Baby Vertebrae).  I've knitted and reknitted this baby cardigan and this is the second time I've knitted this pattern. The first time I didn't like the picked up bands. Too much stress under the sleeves and this cotton yarn doesn't forgive. This time I've knitted as I go, and am knitting a garter band rather than a ribbed band. no point in cotton.  I made a mistake near the bottom hem, did a row in reverse st st, so I've repeated my err

or. Let's call it a modification!  

2) Knit the plain section of my Nature's Lace shawl. It's languishing!

3) Take photos of my MKAL shawl. Let's hope it's not too windy!

4) Cast on a baby hat (or two).  I need to get these finished by the end of the month. 

5) Knit on MrC's surprise socks. Very boring colour this time around, so will knit in small doses. The yarn is Lorna's Laces and the colour is Pinstripe. Dark grey. Plain.

I'm going to refrain from working on So I gather shawl and the striped jumper I started/  Let's get a few things FINISHED (or closer to finished).  And take some progress photos. 

 

June knitting and July knitting goals

June was not a productive month!  I spent one whole week knitting only to frog EVERYTHING I'd worked on!

Soooo, how did I do? 

1) Finish or frog Quick Sand.  Done!  I finished this and am glad that I did. It's very easy to wear and stays on the shoulders. 

 

2)  Stitchnerd June KAL - Wraptastic. Done!

3) Shetland Trader's MKAL. Done!  I kept up too, and the shawl is finished and blocked, just needs blogging. 

4) Baby cardigan. FAIL.  This was one of the ripped WIPs.  

5) Continue on the striped jumper (NOT) or start a new garment - done! I'vc cast on the DK version of Quick Sand called Fine Sand.  Only one ball knitted so far, but I've started.

6) So I Gather shawl - FAIL!  It was cast on in May and I haven't worked on it since.  Still sitting in the knitting basket!

I hope that I can do better in July!

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1) Shetland Trader's MKAL. 

FINISH

2) So I gather shawl,.

3) That baby cardigan which I didn't manage to knit in June. I started yet another one a few days ago.

START AND FINISH

4) Stitchnerd's July KAL,  The theme is Old, Ne, Borrowed and Blue.

CONTINUE

5) Fine Sands cardigan. I'm using Linen Drape. Love the fabric, loathe the knitting. Glad I destashed the other four lots I had!

START

6) shhhh A pair of socks. Boring greys. 

7) Surprise!  That means I havn't made up my mind!

Am sure that this is do-able ... ... ...