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...
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...
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...
Knitting update
Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this. Here are some of my recent knitting projects: This is a top-down hat knitting according to the recipe in Barbara Walker’s “Knitting From the Top Down”. Only I made it too big, so I just kept going and going until it came down to around...
WIP Wednesday
Apparently one is meant to post one’s knitting works in progress on Wednesdays, so here are mine. Purple waterfall scarf/sleeveless vest Gave up on this and ripped it out. I’ll never wear it because the wool’s a bit too scratchy. Plus it was too wide and chunky and I was getting bored with it. Instead...
