Here we see 4 hours of knitting the classic "feather and fan" pattern, in Alpaca Peru on 8mm needles. This is my swatch for the Knitting Olympics and it doesn't work. Dang. After consulting with the nice LYS-lady, I will re-swatch on 5mm needles and add an extra pattern repeat. If that doesn't work, I will re-swatch on 4mm needles and cuss a lot. But I will be ready for the Olympics. The pleasant surprise of this is that FnF is really simple and relaxing to do, once you get into the rhythm of it. Yay for that!
In other news, Jen's Baby Blanket is officially a Finished Object! Here's an up-close of it, showing the yarn label ("Melody" by Patons) and the seed stitch which is pretty cushy in this yarn.
Here's a shot of the whole blanket, draped over the loveseat in the sunroom - note that it is in fact sunny! Saturday was a lovely day. The yellow doesn't show very well in the pictures but it's a true lemon-yellow yellow, which looks like a very small box of crayons with the red and blue. I love it, I hope Jen does too.
Also in FOG-land, here's the hat I made for Peter's mom (aka MIL2B). She declared it "gorgeous" and her "favourite colour" (which one, says me, it's variegated for heaven's sake!). Happy MIL2B makes for happy DH2B makes for happy me. And I'm off the hook knitting for her now until the fall. YAY!
Current WIPs are:
- Peter's sock #2 (half done)
- baby-blue wristers for Julie's niece (half done)
- Karen's "dragonfly" shawl (uh... 1/3 done? hard to tell with a triangle shawl)
- my sweater... my poor neglected sweater which keeps getting pushed aside for other things. I will finish it, I will I will. And in time to wear during this winter, too. I hope.
Someone send me a comment, I'm lonely! :)
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