Happy New Year to one and all!
Hope you all had a truly marvellous Christmas and New Year.
This year I decided against making resolutions as such, but mentally made a list of little things I wanted to achieve rather than a list of things I want to give up.
Number one on that list was to get to grips with knitting, in particular fairisle.
I already knew the basic knit one, purl one malarks, and having knitted a variety of snake scarves in the past involving stripes, wondered 'how hard can it be?'
Not that hard it turns out. This was my first attempt:
Having figured out you've gotta twist the wool in the back to stop it getting too tight and too messy, I had a go at a snow flake design I copied from my slippers, and added my own heart...
I will at some point do some more pattern on this, but I was so excited, that I've abandoned it for the time being, and started an anchor pattern:
I'm trying to decide between making it into a bag, or making lots more in different colours, and stitching them together to make a blanket.
Now all I can think about is knitting. Today I'm attempting to start my tax return, but all I can think about is patterns.
Anyway, I guess I'd better get back to those receipts for now...
Knit one, purl one lovings
xx
Hope you all had a truly marvellous Christmas and New Year.
This year I decided against making resolutions as such, but mentally made a list of little things I wanted to achieve rather than a list of things I want to give up.
Number one on that list was to get to grips with knitting, in particular fairisle.
I already knew the basic knit one, purl one malarks, and having knitted a variety of snake scarves in the past involving stripes, wondered 'how hard can it be?'
Not that hard it turns out. This was my first attempt:
Having figured out you've gotta twist the wool in the back to stop it getting too tight and too messy, I had a go at a snow flake design I copied from my slippers, and added my own heart...
I will at some point do some more pattern on this, but I was so excited, that I've abandoned it for the time being, and started an anchor pattern:
I'm trying to decide between making it into a bag, or making lots more in different colours, and stitching them together to make a blanket.
Now all I can think about is knitting. Today I'm attempting to start my tax return, but all I can think about is patterns.
Anyway, I guess I'd better get back to those receipts for now...
Knit one, purl one lovings
xx
