Finished this sweet, dinky cardi with 4ply and 3mm needles.
Just because...
It's been a while, and in a month where I don't seem to be able to settle on anything, it's no surprise that I have started and not finished several projects.
Mr B wanted another waist coat. So I found a pattern in a magazine on 'readly' and away we go in this broken rib, shawl collar piece (which I am sure he will never wear, but does keep me occupied). The original uses double double knit which seemed like too much faff when I can just get a lovely cotton aran, slightly tweedy and nothing like that dreadful melange which the designer used.
Not so long ago, I tried a chevron scarf pattern, but just couldn't make the pattern work.
It was based on this scarf. Except I knit (knitted, knat?) the return row instead of pattern (patterned, patterning?) it, so the zig-zags are a bit less pointy.
I am a firm believer that sometimes a fabric, or pattern, or yarn, just doesn't want to become what you want it to become. At this point you can continue fighting, making mistakes, pulling down, tearing seams, and re-knitting or take the moral high ground, admit deafeat and move on.
Anyway, the red scarf was frogged and then I found this lovely bamboo mix sock yarn and thought it might work well with this pattern (I've lost the ball band so I can't tell you what it is, but I do know it wasn't cheap) and it feels so much softer and nicer to work with.
I also felt that Bobby Dazzler Knits may be due a revival; albeit on a smaller (much smaller) scale.
So I have picked up tiny needles, 4 ply yarn and a tiny baby pattern for an inconceivably cute and imperceptably perfect project. Which can be found here at archive.org.
The archive really is another free resource which you should check out if you get a spare moment.
So ends an indecisive but vaguely productive month. Roll on summer.
Alfie redux
.... well that didn't go according to plan
The yarn overs just looked too 'loopy' and uneven for my liking.
I can't be the only person who struggles with this. In a lace pattern they look fine, but if I try to create an even line, it looks like a drunk chimp has been at the knitting.
So down it came and is now creating this piece of loveliness
Finished
Knitted up because Mr B was feeling slightly left out.
A King Cole pattern bought from Wool Warehouse, which can be found here.
Bipolar
The problem with bipolar, for me, is the fluctuations in my energy levels.
This ties directly to my ability to finish any project I am working on.
But it is only recently that I realised, even when my energy levels are up, I don't seem to be able to finish said project.
I always want to move onto the next one.
Something new, shiny and stimulating.
My husband has a lovely boss.
Really, she puts up with almost as many of his shenanigans as I do.
They were visiting an educational setting somewhere a while ago and she fell in love with a knitted fox head mounted on the wall.
Thus I was introduced to FAUX TAXIDERMY!
It's a thing people.
Knitted heads of various animals, hung up on the wall.
I felt she needed a prize for employing and working with said husband, and so the fox project was born.
Two days knitting and one constructing and here we are.
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