Saturday Sock

It's happened, I've succumbed to the lure of hand knitted socks. I fear it could be a slippery slope. This is the only photo I've got of the one I'm knitting but it's a lot further on now, I've done the heel and everything! The yarn is Jamboree by Colinette and the pattern is the one which came on the skein label!



I'm knitting it using two circular needles, it is rather fun!

FO Friday, Drop Stitch Scarf

I cast on this scarf literally YEARS ago. The yarn was spun by Sarah at Babylonglegs and is called April Showers. I'd never knitted handspun before and was advised (I think by Sarah although it was so long ago I can't remember!) that something like the Drop Stitch scarf pattern would be very good for showing the yarn off to it's best advantage.



Well I cast on, I knitted a few rows and I got tired of it. I didn't like knitting it on straight needles and at the time the only circular needles I had were 40cm ones which were too short to be comfortable. The scarf and yarn when into a bag and got forgotten about.



Whilst knitting the MKAL cardigan I reached a point where I was ahead of the pattern clues and wanted something mindless to knit at the same time. I had originally planned on knitting my Paprika cardigan but I wanted a break from pink! Then I remembered the scarf and got it out.



My knitting speed has obviously increased over the years. I was also much better at remembering the pattern so didn't need to keep checking and counting which row I was on. This time round the scarf flowed quickly.



Before I knew it I'd finished the skein of yarn and I am so pleased with the finished result :-) For once I'm actually looking forward to the Winter so that I can wear it!

FO Friday Bloom

Ok, the photos are quite frankly rubbish. I'm sorry! I wasn't feeling very well when I took the first one and the second two were taken in a hurry before a certain young lady grabbed my camera. However I think they are just about ok for you to see what the Bloom pattern looks like so I'm afraid you'll have to make do!



I still need to get a ribbon to thread through the eyelets round the bodice but I'm letting her wear it now because I'm nice like that ;-)



Would you believe that this little girl is just 5 days shy of her first birthday? Nope, neither do I. I must have forgotten when she was born and made a mistake somewhere. She can't be a year old already???



(disclaimer the sweet wrapper is from my Mother's day chocolates at the weekend and she only got to have a little bit of a chocolate. She likes throwing the wrappers around and scrunching them up to listen to the sound they make. I'm not a completely negligent mother, honest!)


Anyways, thank you for looking at my photos :-) I need to go change a certain young lady's nappy and then to start preparing lunch. This afternoon my eldest two children have a dance festival at school so Mr Soaring Sheep is coming home from work early and we're going to go watch. My daughter's class is doing an "English dance" and my son's is doing a "Chinese Dragon dance". My son is going to be part of the dragon and is very excited about it :-)

WIP Wednesday

Ok, it's a little later in the day than normal but here is a photo of one of my current WIP's. I also have two cardigans on the needles but one is waiting until I've finished the Mystery KAL and the other (the MKAL) has been put on a shelf in disgust. It's a beautiful pattern and I've been enjoying knitting it but just counted the stitches today and realised I've missed an increase somewhere with doing the raglan increases so have to frog it back. The lace work wasn't a problem at all, basic KFB raglan increases in stockinette are apparently beyond me. URGH!


Anyway, here is what I've been working on in between pattern clues. It's a drop stitch scarf using Babylongleg's beautiful handspun yarn. I started it years ago but decided to pick it up again and it's whizzing along now, clearly I'm a fast knitter than I used to be lol. I'm also a looser knitter as the start of the scarf is narrower than the rest of it, should I frog and reknit?



It needs blocking to fully open up the pattern but it's so pretty :-)

And just for fun, here's a yarn connoisseur



Mmm Babylonglegs handspun....

MIA

*waves* I'm still here. We've been a bit ill this week, two children last weekend and then the other two and I have been ill this week. Not been doing a lot of anything other than trying to take it easy and feel better. Fingers crossed we're on the up now.

I have an FO to show off at some point (Ava's Bloom dress) and I have two WIP's at the moment. One is my Paprika cardigan which I couldn't resist casting on and the other is my mystery KAL cardigan. I've not finished the first clue yet so I'm hoping I can get it done tomorrow as it's Mother's day.

I'm going to do some knitting now whilst DP makes me a tiramisu and a moussaka for tomorrow, lucky me :-D