I've finally finished (more or less) uploading at least basic details of all my projects and stash to Ravelry, and, tormented by those fourteen works in progress on my projects page, have taken advantage of the warm weather and spent some time in the garden with my knitting. A little progress has been made on the seasilk Forest Canopy, but two ( Read more... )

In between making bags and finishing cardigans, I've been having another stab at getting on with my oldest Work In Progress, the Victoria Stole from Rowan 39. I started it just over a year ago, and have had occasional attempts at getting on with it during the year, but it had stalled for ages at 142 rows (out of 500). About a month ago I had a real ( Read more... )

Regular readers may recall that I started making Rambling Rose from Rowan Magazine 39 just over a year ago, but after doing the back and one front I cast on the second front then decided that the thought of six more inches of rib on 2.25mm needles was just too soul destroying to contemplate. So I put it in a box, and, um, left it there for nearly a ( Read more... )

As well as buying yarn, I have been knitting. Sadly not as fast as I've been buying, but I'm doing my best....

Strictly not in order of finishing, firstly I've done the pairs to three of the socks I did in January


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Yes, I know, I wasn't going to buy any more yarn until I'd used a sizable proportion of my stash, but I've been feeling down, and when I feel down, I go shopping. I seem to have acquired this lot since my last stash post -


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I've had an urge to knit Birch from Rowan 34 for a while now, largely as a challenge, and because many other people have done. I wasn't about to spend £10 on the book just for the one pattern, but by a lucky serendipity it was included in the four books for £10 offer that Rowan recently had. So now I have the pattern, and after an accident ( Read more... )