Tuesday, August 21, 2007

hmm... this is going to take practice...

So - I finished the bag, and felted it - but I forgot to take pictures in the intermediate stage of knitted but unfelted! - now I feel like an idiot! - It's at home on a combination of a bowl from the kitchen, and a bunch of socks, and my bedroom wastepaper basket, drying to the shape I want it, it came out very nicely even for my first ever attempt at felting, although I let the washing machine rinse it, which I think was a mistake, if I had gone ahead and rinsed it by hand that last inch of shrink wouldn't have happened...! - so - photo's when I get home, I promise.

Also sock continues being cheerful, and I started a new project, clapotis from knitty... in silk - I just hope it is going to behave when I start letting the ladders run - it occurred to me rather late last night that the silk may slide too easily... The yarn is Regal Silk handpainted, by Art Yarns, it's really nice to work with...

Friday, August 17, 2007

First post



Wow - first post ever on my nice shiny new blog...

I've been working on a couple of projects over the last week or so - both knitting, one of them from the Noni Pattern:

This is going to be the circular felted bag, and I'm already past halfway up the sides for much less effort than I guessed, and the cables are being somehow relaxing...

The other project is a pattern by a friend of mine, Valerie - and is a sock which is also growing well, the first heel is turned and the pattern seems to be behaving very nicely!

next project - find out how to link blogs... *grin*