Knitting

For some light relief from the shawl, I made a pumpkin.  This project has been waiting around for a couple of years.  The yarn is soft but splits easily and it makes for a nice weathered pumpkin look.  I made the smallest size which used less than one ball of

Finished the plain section of my Seraphim shawl on Friday and started the first of four charts.  I knit tightly (continental knitting is helping fix that) and I don't want to run out of yarn, so I cut out one 12 row repeat in the plain section.  Plus,

Made it over three-quarters of the way through the plain rows of Seraphim.  If it's done by October 1st I will enter it in the Loopy Ewe Q3 challenge.  Mum taught me to knit with the right needle held like a pencil, but that doesn't work

The Forest Canopy shawl is dead, long live the Seraphim shawl!  This will be my first MimKnits pattern and my first charted lace.  A little nervous about that one. I ordered four skein of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Pine from the Loopy Ewe on Friday morning, and

Finished the Panda Monkey socks a couple of weeks ago, and I'm all socked out for a bit.  They turned out well despite the splitty yarn. Yarn: Crystal Palace Panda Cotton in strawberry limeade and sprite green, from the Loopy Ewe. Pattern: Monkey with a picot hemmed cuff.

The Forest Canopy shawl bit the dust.  The yarn is back in the box waiting for a new project.  Tried to start a lace scarf with some of my handspun and ran into problems (wooden needles that cracked, two different patterns that didn't look good) so that got

Swatched for the Forest Canopy shawl at knitting morning on Saturday and got gauge with the needle size in the pattern.  I'm usually wildly off, could have been the cookie-and-hot-chocolate breakfast that day.  Messed up the second pattern repeat and had to rip out and restart on Sunday

The first package for the Loopy Ewe Sock Club arrived on Tuesday. It was nicely put together in a zipped plastic Loopy Ewe Sock Club bag.  The yarn feels soft, slippery, and it looks shiny.  The colours are great, but my skein has a knot join in it.  Hopefully it