I heart my stash

I went through all my wool this afternoon just to make myself aware of what is in there again! I love my wool. I had such a nice hour looking through it all and remembering where and why I bought it. I have my lovely wool from Peru, although I actually bought nicer Peruvian stuff at Mascos! There is the gorgeous ball of Danish wool from you, 2 skeins of organic cotton in a lovely pale green for a soon-to-be-little-person, and quite a bit more besides. A LOT of my wool is from Mel. I'm not sure introducing me to Southseas was a sensible idea.

I am finally on the decrease section of my Saroyan, so hopefully (illness allowing) I will be finished within a week. Then I can start something new!

Number Twelve

Had a quiet morning doing some knitting. Have got 2 more repeats to finish off the increase section, I like how it's looking so far. Is yours quite curly? I suppose blocking will fix that. Sick of all my wool at the moment so am paying a visit to Mascoes (sp?) today and having a coffee with my sister while I'm in town. How did the Swedish lesson go?

Saturday morning re-do

So, I have finally got going with the scarf! I started using 6mm needles but it looked loose and gappy so I have done the same as you and gone down to a 5mm. This is much better, and means I get to use my bamboo needles rather than the steel ones which sound like teeth grinding together when you knit. I should get another couple of repeats done today, it's a good pattern isn't it?

So far I have only had one moment of confusion on the last row, where I thought 'bind off 3' meant the next 3 stitches, not including the one already purled. Oops.

This is all I got

I'm happy with how this is coming together. The pattern is really easy to follow for an idiot like me. And this wool is perfect for the project.

LYS

This place has great capacity to bring cheer to my day. I thought you might like to see it. The picture's a bit dark unfortunately as it was quite late in the day, and it started snowing while I was taking the photo.

As I mentioned, I wasn't too happy with my swatch in the merino-silk, so I bought this instead.

I think the colour is more Mum. Again, not a great photo because taken at night, but it's a pretty muted blue-grey. Best thing is that it was only SEK 20 a skein (NZD $4.00)!

Knit-a-long

One big ball of wool ready to be knitted into a Saroyan!