What I made, by Sharon

I finished Tir Chonail a week and a half ago, but I couldn't blog about it until I had taken photos and these proved difficult to secure. Kate Davies took photos of this as a wrap , but it's not. It's a blanket. Yes, you can wrap it around yourself, but it's still a blanket. I tried to replicate her wrap photos: It wasn't good. I promise I am actually wearing a dress under there. I didn't want to take outside photos, because it's a blanket. Should I wrap it around a tree? Place it on a hedge? (Actually, now I think about it, this would make an amazing picnic blanket) This is my favourite photo, but isn't perfect for showing the actual finished blanket, although it does show how pretty Juniper is: The wrap up of the project is that it was a whole lot of fun to knit. I went down a needle size, and increased it by a repeat in all directions, giving a finished size of 1 meter by 1.07. Instead of doing the steek sandw...

I'm not sure there is anything much more to be said about my Rams and Yowes blanket, except I finished it, blocked it and I love it. I love the front, I love the back, I love the fact that it is 9 natural sheepy colours and matches my cats. I love the way it looks hanging over the back of my rocking chair. I knit the pattern pretty much as written, although I didn't pick up as many stitches for the border - a ratio of one to one, which is what the pattern called for given many people a wavy border, so I followed my feeling and picked up fewer stitches. It came out quite well. The other thing I did was not purling the border. the method i used was not perfect, and if I was to do it again I would certainly try a different method. This took me a month of continuous, monogamous knitting and I loved every stitch of it. I love Kate Davies ' designs, her attention to detail and eye for colour and this blanket has only deepened my love for her and her design ...

I don't know what's going on with the finishing things that I failed to tell you I was starting, but that seems to be a thing right now. Over the long weekend I knit myself another Kate Davies hat, this time Snawheid . You may ask why, since I just finished one that I love ( epostrophheid ) We are having a particularly cold start to winter and I wanted a hat to wear under my helmet and at crossfit , so something a bit thinner and more close fitting. And here it is:  As always, Kate Davies obsessive attention to detail leads to stunning, meticulous designs. Looks at the decreases on the top of this hat: Tell me you could wack a great big pom-pom on top of that incredible colourwork detailing? I love it. I used Jameson and Smith for the background, and Little Dipper yarns for the colour work. I can't get over how vibrant and lovely that colour is. The main noteworthy thing about this pattern is that I knit it straight from my tablet, because i fo...

At Richmond Knitters on Monday night I mentioned that I am "working" on a sock yarn blanket. Working in the broadest sense of the word. I've blogged about it exactly once , way back in 2011, and rarely add even the odd square. Yesterday I went to Traralgon for work - two hours there and two hours back - so I got the Fair Isle socks finished,    And I thought it would be really fun to use the three colours on the socks for three adjoining squares.  So I did. The blanket is slowly growing, I think I might be somewhere near the halfway point. Obviously it would grow faster if I knit on it more often, although now is not the time really, since it's the middle of summer and has finally become hot. At the very least, I want to get in the a habit of knitting a square every time I finish a four ply project. By my calculation last year I used a total of 23 different sock weight yarns, on jumpers, shawls and of course socks. So this year I am aimi...