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Friday, 26 August 2011

Rainbow hat

Just finished this off tonight for a ranibow themed swap over at the Creative Living forum:

I've not been a huge fam of knitting 'tape' yarns before, but this one was really nice to knit with, slightly stretchy, so will keep its shape really well. Still have another ball and a bit left, not sure what to do with it, might knit a hat for myself! lol

Feather and fan scarf

An old favourite of mine, knitted many times; this in a shaded pure wool, lovely to knit with. For sale in my online shop Pocaid:
http://pocaid.blogspot.com/


Sunday, 21 August 2011

Erin

This is a beautiful pattern from Louisa Harding's new book 'Knitting in the Details'. I started it eysterday, too it out in the car, and due to a fortuituous very long detour, got the body of it done before I got home, and the crown last night; embroidered the daisies this afternoon. Very pleased with it :)

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Nettle dyed shawl

Finally got around to finishng this today lol Typical of a UFO, all it needed was the ends of the border joining and the ends darned in,now done. Elizabeth Zimmerman pattern from her Knitter's  Almanac. It's almost 30'' across. I knitted it in lamswool, gleaned from a long ago visit to the Scrapstore, then washed it, and dyed it whole with nettles, alum mordant. Lidght unevenness due to dyeing it whole instead of yarn first, but not unattractive, and an intrinsic part of the process of handmade. I love it. :)

Sunday, 3 July 2011

The irony of summer knitting..........

Designing a pattern for a winter hat, now on the needles................

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Update...........

Well now. Yorkshire didn't work out, ended in tears and bitterness, none of my doing. In a nutsehll, back in Dorset, sorting out an off-grid living space for myself, on my own. In the meantime, knitting socks until my stash reappears from Yorkshire, hopefully quite soon!

Monday, 4 April 2011

I'm still here!

I'm still around, still knitting, ofcourse. Private life has undergone major upheavals - marriage over and I've moved up to Yorkshire. I'm afraid blogging has taken a bit of a back seat up until now, but I'm getting back in the blogging groove, and want to get all my blogs and things updated as soon as I can. I'm busy knitting away for stocking an internet shop -possibly Etsy or Folksy, but haven't decided for definite yet, or it might be something independent of them. I've also got a meeting soon with a local knnitwear company to enquire about handknitting for them, will see what transpires with that. Watch this tension square-shaped space lol