Next Knitting Project…

February 19, 2011 at 10:14 am (Uncategorized)
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These are the completed socks for Tom.  I was hoping to drive up and see him this weekend… but I suspect the wind might push my little Neon car past his place altogether!  So the socks get a truck ride via Canada Post.  *sigh*

Yes, I have started a lovely plain grey sock for myself… and I’ve also started a shawl.

Our local knitting guild: Elgin Knitting Goddess’, are doing a knit-a-long of this seemingly simple shawl.  Just a six row repeat.   So a pattern was handed out.  Cool!  I thought I’d use a sock yarn I had picked up in Toronto at the Creative Festival a couple of years ago.

A few dozen ‘un-knittings’ later and some cross discussions resulted in some interesting similar mistakes.   I’ve sorted mine out to just be a four row repeat, while others have altered the sixth row from a knit on the wrong side to a purl.  I look forward to seeing our glorious shawls side by side.

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February 8, 2010 at 6:16 pm (Uncategorized)
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Over the weekend I had been trying my hand at knitting a charted shawl.  The yarn I chose was a beautiful dark green and was very fine.  I’ve never followed a chart before, so this is a personal challenge for me.  After many starts and repairs, slipped stitches and restarts, I had a good 7 inches of the lovely lacy shawl when the whole works slid off the needle in mid-row and unravelled before I could save it!  With a ‘grrr’ I started over … again, but it kept sliding off my comfortable Aero 3.25mm circular needle.  I figured I would have to switch to bamboo or rosewood needles, but not today.  The challenge is doing the pattern from a graph.  I’m just going to start over with a different yarn.  ‘Sigh.’  I’ll let you know how it goes.

Monday Night Quilting Classes:

Wow!  We’ve done 2 Barn Door blocks, a Prairie Flower block, 2 Appliqués (1 heart and 1 shamrock), and a Canadian Garden block.  Tonight we will be doing a Foundation Braid block 2 times.  The colours everyone has been using are brilliant!  I went with a green colour wave, because green is my favourite and we’ll be done this runner before St Pat’s Day.  It just works for me.  I designed this runner to be done in a single colour wave with a feature fabric, a light, a dark and 4 medium shades.  Reds would make a great Valentine runner.   No one in the classes picked reds!  Mostly they went with their own thing and I am always enchanted by the diversity of colours.  Of course, green is best!

Keepin’ in stitches!

Carrie

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