A day of varied domesticity
Garden: We have 4 enormous tubs, 3 large pots, and a couple of middling sized pots filled with potting mix and/or various vegetable matter. For the big tubs, I raked up a heap of leaf litter and filled them 1/3 with that, 1/3 with chopped lucerne, and 1/3 with organic potting mix. There’s more lucerne...
Grounded (free scarf pattern)
I was on vacation and stopped by a yarn store (as you do). This Spud and Chloe yarn called to me. I wanted something with a bit of a vintage feel, easy enough to knit on the go without needing to carry a pattern with me. The result was “Grounded”, a simple lace scarf with...
Uses for leftover bits of Kureyon
I’m making a Lizard Ridge blanket out of Noro Kureyon, and the result is I’ve got a bag full of odds and ends of yarn, not quite enough to make another square, but too much to throw out. A couple of weeks ago I sat down and made some random stuff out of these leftover...
FO: Feather and fan shawl
I posted this a while ago as a WIP, but forgot to mention I’d finished it. The shawl is the Icelandic feather and fan one from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”, knitted in New Lanark Mills’ aran-weight wool in (IIRC) gritstone. It was left over from an earlier cardigan. The shawl starts in a fairly standard...
FOs: two baktus scarves
Baktus is a scarf pattern that originated with Scandinavian knitting bloggers and has been very popular this year. You take a ball of sock yarn, cast on four stitches, and increase gradually until you’ve used just under half the ball (judging by weight), then decrease at the same rate. I’ve knitted two so far. The...
FO alert: sockses
The red ones in the middle are the new ones. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit tweed, so as you can probably see the red yarn has black and brown tweedy flecks in it. I really liked it, and would happily knit more socks with it. The pattern is just my personal basic sock pattern...
Knitting update
It’s ages since I posted about my knitting. And my WIPs have kind of multiplied. Oops. Recently finished: Two dishcloths in this vile pinky red colour. I like them because they’re the same colour as Dreamwidth‘s “Tropospherical red” site theme. A shawl, from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”. It’s the lacy prairie shawl. A simple triangular...
2008 knitting round-up
Here’s what I knitted in 2008: 1. Monochrome afghan, 2. Finished, Yoda is, 3. Scrubby, 4. Gah!, 5. Hot water bottle cover for Erica, 6. Baby socks, 7. Big green cowl action shot, 8. Submarine cable socks, 9. Sock in progress, 10. Cowl, 11. Green hat, 12. Vest – complete, 13. Noro striped scarf, 14....
A finished sweater. I mean jumper. Or rather, vest.
Way back at the start of the year I said that this year should be a year of sweaters, or jumpers as we call them in Australia. I’d tried to knit a couple of jumpers before, but something always went wrong. Now with the help of Ravelry I felt a lot more confident, so I...
Too many socks!
I finished the navy striped socks (photo later, once they’re out of the wash). Then for some reason I cast on 3 more pairs. The first were the Froot Loops, which I started on wooden needles so I could knit them on the plane to England. The second were these Ringwood pattern socks from Nancy...
Environmentally friendly yarns
I want to start using more ecologically sound yarns, so I’m researching what’s available. Here’s a list of what I’ve found so far. All these yarns claim to be environmentally friendly and use minimal chemical processing on the yarn; those that are bolded are organic. I’m limiting the list to yarns that I’m interested in...
