Life on the 59th Parallel
Posted in Knitting, Sanday Show, Sheep, Spinning on Dec 5th, 2009
At last I’m getting around to posting photos of the completed Jacob Waistcoat. It was fun to knit and even got a prize at the Sanday Show! The pattern needed a little correction, but it knitted up quickly and I may make another soon.
I’ve finished the Jacob waistcoat! It’s been a bit of an off-on project – very quick to knit when I got down to it.
It’s going in the Annual Show on Friday. I’ll put up photos after that.
Posted in Knitting on Mar 8th, 2009
Started the right front of the waistcoat last night. Lovely simple pattern, knits up a treat, starting with one stitch, increasing two stitches each RS row, get to row 23, have the correct number of stitches on the needle (25). Pattern now changes a little, decreasing one stitch at the beginning of each RS row [...]
The back of the waistcoat was finished last night, and I wondered what would be the best back-drop for a photo. Having just run the hoover over it, Tan’s Vetbed sprang to mind, so I spread the back on the Vetbed…
Then she got comfortable!
We negotiated – i.e. she had a cuddle, then I got the [...]
I had hoped to finish the back last night, but other necessary things got in the way.
However, I’ve got this far. I’m sure the shape will sort itself out once it’s blocked!
Whilst surfing online knitting patterns recently I succumbed to Rick Mondragon’s Bias knit vest. I’ve been looking for something to knit my 3-ply Navajo-plyed Jacob into and decided that this was it.
It needs 6mm needles and I was fairly sure that the pair of wooden ones extracted from my needle bag were 6mm, although I [...]
OK, I’ve finished the pair of Ryeland socks – which ended up with a good bit of Jacob in the second sock!
I’ve now started knitting another pair using the Magic Loop method. It’ll be interesting to see how they come out.
Well, I’ve been spinning a fleece that was given to me last year – a ‘Shetland cross’ which has turned out to be a very nice fleece. I’ve knitted a lacy scarf from some of it that I had rainbow-dyed. Photos are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64772397@N00/
I’ll add a photo of the finished scarf (yes it is finished) [...]