13 Aug 2010

Recent knits

Now that im half way through the summer holidays, Ive been busy knitting away and trying new things, particularly lace knitting.

This is my current progress on the Wakefield Diagonal Lace Scarf by Melissa LaBarre here, which I though would be a good start for a beginner like me...and it is! I think it will look a bit better once blocked...hopefully

Ive also been making a bunny that is not yet finished but will post photos once its completed. Only have the fabric on the ears left to complete.

I have recently completed some yoga socks (Knit Today issue 44 spring 2010) for my friends bday....which was back in March!! I had completed the one sock for her bday and gave an I.O.U for the second one. I feel really bad that its taken so long! It was the first sock I had ever knitted and with 4 colours, which I cut after each colour change and had to weave in the ends after knitting. I now realize that there are better ways to do this now and am wiser from the experience however intend to start making people present weeeeeeell before their bdays! Ive learnt my lesson hopefully.

Here is a shrug I started in the Easter holidays and have started on again. Its the Five-way-cable-shrug by Lily M Chin here. I like the fact that it has buttons that allow you to change the way you wear it. Hopefully it will be done for winter considering how fast I knit LOL

A couple of older knits I have done were the cider jumper for my fiance Elliot here which was done over a couple of nights in the pub on our camping holiday in Easter. It was freezing cold..especially in the tent and the only warmth I got those two weeks was in the on site pub which had a large open log fire and made lush hot chocolates with marshmallows and cream mmmmm!



The fingerless mitts below are the Fethcing pattern by Cheryl Niamath from Knitty here that are very popular and so fun to knit! It was the first project i did with cables...and my first mitts!