I’m off work now for 9 whole days! I’m not going away so I’m looking forward to a relaxing week at home just pootling about. Mum and I will be having a yarn buying spree at Get Knitted on Monday, Tuesday morning I’m getting my head shorn as I haven’t had a haircut since before Christmas and it is really scruffy now. I’m really bad at remembering to book an appointment. Thursday I’m going to London for the day (knitting on the train) and will probably go to the Tate Modern or V&A, do a bit of shopping and then meet my friend Nic for the iKnit London knitting group at 6pm near Waterloo. The rest of the week will involve lots of knitting and crafting I hope plus walks and I may even get my bike out for the first cycle of the year – but not tomorrow as it’s supposed to snow in the UK. I’ll believe it when I see it to be honest.
This week I’ve been working late and therefore needed some pretty mindless knitting in the evenings to relax with so I started and finished the black and white striped scarf I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I cast on 300 stitches so I could knit it longways and it’s worked out quite well. I did 4 rows of each colour for the stripes and knit it on a 4.5mm 100cm circular needle. There are only about 32 rows and I finished it last night at midnight (after many “I’ll just knit another row”s). It needs blocking (pic above) and the ends sewing in as it’s all curly the wrong way so the purl side is showing. As it’s 50% bamboo 50% cotton it won’t be too warm but it will keep me warm enough. I just hope I can get it to lay flat.
Burton Scarf update: it won’t stay flat but I’m getting used to it. I am still contemplating adding some embellishment as it was inspired by Tim Burton and all the stripiness in his films so I think it needs some curls or spirals as that is another theme he likes.
April 12, 2008 at 4:51 pm |
Hope you’re having a good time on your break and getting plenty of crafty things done.