FOs

I am terrible at starting knitting projects whilst i still have so many others not finished.

However, now and then i do complete some stuff....... and i got some evidence ( well just one for now)

The shawl is real light...... the yarn is lime greenish, food bluish colour with a lot of white in it .....i hand dyed this yarn last year and for some reason i didnt like the yarn colour outcome.

i am please with how the scarf turned out, we just need some great British Weather to be able to use it now!

Unfinished

Finished and modelled by me!

African print fat quarters

Haruni lace shawl

Here we are.....despite having at least another 10 projects going, i could not resist knitting the haruni lace shawl..... i love it so far. But i must admit i am getting bored of the repeats .......it is a strugle to be faithful to a project for me.

the aim is to be complete by July (realy i only need three nights but who know if i decede to start on a sock)

below are some photos

at this stage am half way thru

You know she got the ball of wool and tore it apart, thank God i have had enough practice at detangling

Another pair of sock ....now completed

Well, we got another completed pair of sock. I feel the need to state that i knit other things but socks at this point. The recent sock knitting marathon was due to some lovley wool i bought recently on a discount and only bought 100 grams of each.........we will soon be back on the normal items i like to knit .....anything really to be honest but not too many socks.

I have also bought some undyed yarn and once received i will be dying and space dying wool....not sure what space dye involved but i have seen the outcome which i liked.

i liked the colours but the sock was too big, so hubby now owns them

knitting lace

I have another WIP in the works, i decided to bring this WIP out which i started in January. I somehow had forgotten why i had retired this item, but after 3 rows of the YO and K2T i now remember why this has been retired for such a long time - my wrist is in pain! somehow i have made it to knit it for a whole meter long. The yarn is cotton, not soft but it is smooth so am sure i will not felt this one. I have decided that i will keep this for myself. I deserve it after all the pain in the wrist.

The repetitive lace, it is now getting borring

at this point the lace scarf/shawl is measuring about 1 m long

my long rainbow socks

in the last few weeks, i have knitted a total of 4 pairs of socks.

i dont like to swatch, i have knitted so many pairs of socks i have not needed to, but the last 3 attempts have let me down and made my hubby very happy. i have set out to knit socks for myself on the 3 occassions and they all turned out too big on me but perfect fit for HIM. so i decided not to undo the socks but rather give them to him although that were never the intention at the start of the casting on.

anyway, the knee high turned out great for me, so guess not all is lost!

knee high socks, 100 grams of wool for the pair

Dye jobs .......not too sure about vinegar and i-colours

So, i have decided to try dyeing wool roving! it worked so well until after pouring the colours.

After the 4 minutes in the microwave i noticed the blue ( yeah that is blue in the middle) was 'fixed' but the rest of the colours were runny. well i could only think this had something to do with the dyes i used. The blue is Jacquard and the rest are i-dye or i-colour. comes in a satch like vegetable seeds and says add salt or vinegar. It failed to say it doesnt work as good as the real jacquard dyes. I am not getting them i-dyes no more, no good value for money.

Anyway, decided to buy citric acid off ebay as it is not in TESCOs and see if it will work. I will post them photos of dried wool once some sunshine shoes up around here!

wool in vinegar

ready to go, notice i am wearing pink hand knitted socks! proud of my socks!

looks great here!

in the micro wave for 4 minutes! everything goes wrong from here...