Tuesday 3 April 2012

Round and around




This month's update is a very stripy one! It will be up on the website around 13th April. I've dyed up a few striped yarns in two- and three-colour varieties, including the purple and green one above. Although you can't have that one, it's mine ;-) The temptation was just too great! 
I'm having a go at knitting an afterthought or peasant (charming!) heel with this one, hence the row of odd-coloured yarn, which, I promise you, won't be present in your skein of stripes:
 I am not usually a knitting control freak (habitually knitting socks of odd length, with uneven tension, lumpy weaving-in and all the staying-up power of Nora Batty's stockings) , but I thought I'd try keeping the continuity of the stripes this time instead of having them thin out around the ankle. Oh, and I like knitting round and round and round and round on that teeny tiny circular without having to stop and replace the needles! Hmm now I see my knitting close up like this it really is astonishingly bad tension-wise. All over the place in fact. I'm trying hard not to care about it...but when I see my friend Rhian's knitting, which is the neatest knitting in the world...I think maybe I should stick to the Monkeys in future, where I can hide the mess in a tangle of yarn-overs and purl stitches!



6 comments:

  1. Love the stripyness - I should have guessed that purple and green would be your no.1 combo!!! Hope you are well, Rx

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    1. Hahah! yes am a bit predictable in the purple/green department aren't I? lol ;-)I'm even wearing purple and green today...yikes xxx

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  2. Gorgeous colours! I've never done an afterthought heel, really should.

    My knitting's not that neat! Just let it wash and dry a couple of times and the stitches should even out nicely :-)

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    1. thanks :-) aaah I see, it's the washing and drying that makes those stitches so purty ;-) I do despair when knitting, my stocking stitch looks like a spider knitted it ;-)

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  3. I'm about to cast on my first pair of Yaffle Stripey sock yarn... hopefully designing in it too :D :D :D

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    1. ooh how exciting that you are designing with it...wow! hope you like the stripes! x

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