Knitting

Thank you for all the comments, the sock yarn was mailed out to the winner on Monday 18th April. I was going out of town this weekend, and I wanted to start a pair of socks to take with me.  I pulled the best sock yarn I own out of

It may come as a surprise, but I do own an ironing board.  Comes in handy for photo shoots, blocking recalcitrant scarves, storing things on, all kinds of uses.  Even ironing occasionally.  This is the first Fair Isle I ever did, impaled on the ironing board.  It really worked, after

This is the Fair Isle pulsewarmer so far: It's made using Dale of Norway Falk, a superwash DK weight yarn with a picture of a falcon on the label.  I think the grey is a little thicker than the blue.  Note the absence of gaping holes at the

I wasn't going to post about this until I'd got some decent results.  I knitted something three times tonight and ripped it out three times, but I'm happy with it.  I'm working on my first Fair Isle project (cue dramatic music for

That bow scarf that was going so well?  I finished it.  Then I tried it on, realised it was too wide and ripped it back.  Kept the first leaf part and the slot, but not much else.  But there's good news.  Stress-induced knitting has made up at least

The Bowtie scarf is coming along nicely: I had to modify the pattern to get the slot to look decent.  Ended up going down four needle sizes (from a size 7 to a size 3) for the row before and after and using thread instead of a stitch holder to

Finished the Hurry Up Spring Armwarmers: I used 2 skeins of Noro Kureyon #88, size 7 and 8 dpns, and liberal amounts of yarn splicing.  There was one knot in my two skeins, which was removed and the ends spliced back together.  They felt less-than-soft, so they're now

This is the first completed Hurry Up Spring Armwarmer.  I haven't sewn in the ends yet, and it's hard to take a decent photo of your right hand.  It's fuzzy, but the colours are more or less right. The observant may notice the purple