3rd attempt at spinning Merino top
All three spun tops knitted together
So I knit starting with the 3rd attempt and finishing at the 1st. You can see I’ve gone from a horribly overspun yarn to a ridiculously slubby, underspun yarn. Arrgh!
I’m looking for a sock pattern that I can knit using Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock yarn [...]
Was great! (When I finally got there, after getting lost in Clapham Common and phoning my mum asking for help) There were some lovely stalls, and such nice people too. I met the lovely Nush, whose mum made the best cupcakes I think I’ve ever tasted. Seriously, they were DELICIOUS! I sat at Nush’s stall for a while and we tried to do some [...]
It was brilliant!
Click this image to see the whole photo set.
I loved it! My mum and I met Rachel John, who is an extreme knitter - she was knitting a rug with 60 strands! There was a second set of needles and pile of yarns, and people could sit down and knit a row. I was too [...]
Branching Out
Finished! I’m so happy with how this turned out - blocking worked a treat. I was quite nervous about blocking, but it aaall went OK.
Knitting and Stitching Show, tomorrow! So very excited - hopefully I’ll have lots to blog about when I get home.
I think that’s about it for now…
x
Edit: Finally! And please excuse my [...]
Branching Out
I LOVE this colour! Knitting this has been an endurance test. It’s been knitted, ripped out, re-knitted, hurled across the room in anguish, and knitted some more. Only a few more repeats to go, but I don’t want to touch it because I’ve dropped a stitch somewhere in the last repeat and I [...]
|
