Things that make you go....

Ahhhh.

Allergy season in - brain out - that's how it feels at the moment. In between the coughing, sneezing and wanting to scratch my eyes out, my beautiful son is flying the flag for this knitting household. I can knit a little at a time at the moment and strictly cotton. More about that in another post.

Shea in full flow.

Pit stop

I have a finished object!!

The tab button top was finished a while ago but I haven't had time to show her off in blog land. In reality, I haven't stopped wearing the cardigan. It's gorgeous. It was quick and easy - mindless stocking stitch yes, but a well constructed design. Just what I needed after 2 projects going wrong.

I found a lovely button at my local yarn shop, a perfect match. (I had help - thanks Karin!!)

It wasn't all stocking stitch!!

One Button Jacket

Design: By Debbie Bliss
From: Debbie Bliss Wish you were here book

Started: Can't remember
Finished : Can't remember but it took 2 weeks to knit

Yarn used: Debbie Bliss Cathay in Teal Blue

Needle size: 3.25 and 3.75 mm

Comments: Quick and easy knit.

I'm juggling too many balls at the moment and my blog is suffering as a result. There has been very little knitting going on - to my sadness...... I did not finish the cable and bobble cardigan on time. I just have the sleeves to do and am half way up one . I had been focusing solely on this project but life has a habit a interrupting good intentions and serious knitting marathons. Just a couple of weeks more of chaos and I'm hoping to be back to normal.

Back and fronts of the cable cardigan.

Still here

I have been so busy chasing my own tail !! This is what happens when you start too many projects at one time and have a crisis about how much stash you have bulging out of places it has no business bulging from.

Knitting Progress

A finished (finally) object

Pattern: adapted from the zipped Jacket with hood

Pattern by: Debbie Bliss

Source: Cotton knits for all seasons

Yarn used: Tivoli Santos aran (100% cotton)

Started: February 14/2007 Finished: April 10 2007
Comments: The pattern had a few errors in it which were easily correctable. I did not knit the hood, but made a fold down collar in moss stitch instead. The cables on the jacket knitted right next to the moss stitch looks brilliant!!

St Brigid

St Brigid is on a little bit of a back burner. I promised my mum I would knit a cardigan for her friend and she needs it in 2 weeks!! We like to keep on our toes. The pattern is an old friend so hopefully she will have it on time - this is what happens when your mum actually wears the things knitted for her!!

It's the Ribbed Cardigan by Debbie Bliss, from her Cashmerino DK book.

She bites

You know when you are feeling just a little bit cocky about a pattern and thing you can sail through all the pieces with out a hitch? That was me- until last night. An hour into my knitting session, I realised things were going so swimmingly because I'd left out a whole panel of cable and substituted a double moss stitch. St. Brigid just put me firmly in my place!!

The increased stitches should be the beginning of a simple plait cable. Instead I've been taking the easy way out and knitting in double moss stitch. Had I not already completed the first sleeve, I may have cheated and carried on. But alas, the work has been ripped out. I'm glad I noticed during the second repeat and not any further up.

Consumed

St. Brigid

I'm loving her!! One sleeve completed. Start the next one tomorrow. I'm not quite doing my one pattern repeat per night, but she's going a treat. The yarn loves cables - they really stand out. One minor ( I consider) error on the sleeve. I'm not perfect so its staying there. If I remember correctly, Eastern rug weavers (I forget which country) deliberately work in a error to each rug/ pattern as a sign of imperfection - the only perfection being God - or something to that effect!

I've been stuck in traffic jams twice since my last post, which has been great for me and the tab top cardigan. I'm now half way up. Hopefully I'll finish thins week.

And we're out of the starting gates!!

St. Brigid

The second photo is a better likeness of the colour of yarn I'm using. I'm on my 4th repeat of the pattern and am feeling less stressed about making mistakes. I'm getting the feel of the pattern now. 2 more repeats and I start the saddle shaping. My aim is to work one pattern repeat an evening. This is definitely not a take about pattern so I'm home bound with it.

I'm about a third of the way up on the tab button top by Debbie Bliss. Will post some photos when there's more to show. It's a tricky one to show because its just endless stocking stitch!!