French Market Bag
Then today I took delivery of a bargain cone of Debbie Bliss's Baby Cashmerino. A Canadian friend who also loves Airedales is expecting a baby girl & we share the love of purple amongst other things. 'Grandma to be' is a knitter so I'm keeping 400g myself to knit the Entrelac Shawl for the new arrival.
Baby Cashmerino
The rest of the cone 333g is going to 'Grandma to be' to be turned into a variety of garments.
Baby Cashmerino
I'd also ordered some Mernio DK in purple with a contrasting blue - I was very disappointed with the blue.
DK Merino
So that will be used for a winter scarf for the little boy who is also receiving the awful cardigan. The purple is going to 'Grandma to be' with the cone & hopefully she'll be able to get a better contrasting yarn in Canada.
Tomorrow morning should hopefully bring the extra skein of Chunky shetland from Moondance Wools. Plus the pattern for the Entrelac Shawl in the Baby Cashmerino book from from Tess at Angel Yarns.
Tonight was the 4th meeting of 'In Stitches' & we had four new people including an accomplished Crocheter who is also exploring spinning. We also had another newby who learnt two cast on's, knit, purl & casting off by the end of the night. This is all without any publicity this month as my life has been far too busy - I must get posters sorted out next week for our August meeting as we're going on holiday to Dorset soon for two weeks in the caravan. Hence the Entrelac Shawl as I think it'll be good summer knitting.
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3 comments:
The market bag is coming along nicely.
But what's this? Starting the shawl before finishing the bag? ha - I knew you'd cave in and have more than one WIP on the go at a time!
I've always fancied that shawl - have you done entrelac before ? My husbands' grandma was always trying to get me to try it and I never did - now unfortunately she has passed away so she isn't around to pass her skills on to me anymore - I'm sorry I didn't take her up on her offer now.
Thanks for the comments
- Andrea
I've actually now got 4 WIP's if you include the awful cardigan - details are in the photo gallery. But I tend to knit one a time - if that makes sense. Can't carry on with the bag as I've run out of yarn :-( so it seemed a perfect reason to start another!
- Moo
No I've not done Entrelac before & it's driving me potty. I've just spoken to a knitty friend & she's told me that the joined curled bit is normal & that it will sort itself out eventually. So I'm cautiously continuing & hoping that I'm not wasting my time.
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