Kirsty Knits!

August 20, 2005

comments [General] — Administrator @ 11:32 am

Think I’ve un-moderated the comments. Sorry bout that, didn’t realise it did that by default!

Started my minisweater the other day which is coming along nicely. Probably about half done although last night I noticed I’d made a mistake on about the 9th row! Argh. Although it’s in the black so you can’t really notice it and tbh I’m not going to fret about it. Certainly not going to start over!

Trying to get together a list of what I want to knit and see what yarn I have for each project. So much to do and so little time!

Nikki, I’ll copy you that pattern if that’s ok. I’m knitting a sweater out of the book too so need it around.

August 19, 2005

Shopping [General, Stash!] — Administrator @ 5:39 pm

The other day I went to Coldspring Mill near Bradford and as a result the yarn stash has increased quite a bit!

Picked up some unlabelled Debbie Bliss wool on cones. Only small amounts though, but I’m hoping to make a minisweater with them both.

That’s the black and blue big cones in the pic. I’ve already started on the black minisweater :) Hoping I have enough wool for it though, but maybe I can just do shorter sleeves if I run out. The other bits were a tiny bit of light blue DB merino chunky which I think I’ll do a felted purse or something with and also some unknown beige yarn and a small ball of mohair that I managed to get for free as the nice man couldn’t be bothered to enter an amount for it!

This is some lovely Elsebeth Lavoid wool in a dark brown colour. It’s 50% Alpaca and 50% Merino and it’s lovely and soft. I’m going to make a long cardigan for me from a pattern in a Rowan magazine. If I find a pic I’ll post it.

And last but not least is some of this:

Which I think I’ll make a shawl with. I’d like to make the Clapotis but I’m not sure. Might do a test square to see how it knits up.

Loopy scarf [Finished Objects] — Administrator @ 5:27 pm

This scarf was made with Colinette Fandango yarn which is a cotton chenille. Is lovely wool, but I was getting fed up of the needles I had. Really could use Addi circulars for everything I think! I love how it turned out, and I’m even thinking about making another one at some point in a different colour :)

Alex modelling the loopy scarf

Knitting [Uncategorized] — Administrator @ 3:19 pm

Recently discovered knitting again due to some of my friends doing it and also the purchase last year of some lovely Colinette wool for a hat. Since then I’ve had a few different projects on the go which I’ll blog here :)

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