Knitting Yarns

Fuschia mentioned that I havn't actually said I arrived back safely, but thinking on that, those that needed to know, knew, and those that did not know have not been asking so thinking there are not that many of them :-).

So on to knitting - whilst in AZ I knitted two little jackets for little locals, well on the other side of the country locals. Found a pattern on the Lion Brand site, - http://www.lionbrand.com-
and managed to get the correct yarn in same colour, the lovely dusty pink, as the pattern, so rarely happens to me, had to use a different yarn for the blue. Because I only had the circular needles I had fun experimenting. Knitted bottoms all in one piece to armhole, then did fronts and back separately, grafted shoulders, picked up sleeve stitched around the armhole and knitted down to the cuffs. Picked up and knitted hood stitches and grafted the top, so there were no seams at all, going to try that on a big item one day.

Do not know if they fitted or were in any way useful but enjoyed doing them.









When I got home had another try with the two socks on one circular needle, the first ones were munched by puppies. The second try ended up in a mad tangle however third time lucky and I have done this much.




Then I got side tracked, as I do.

While sorting yarn stash found quite a bit of acrylic and thought of a project that have been thinking of doing for a few years but always too late, that is knitting a rug for Wrapped With Love. Usually only think of it when the local ABC radio start calling for sqares and people to stitch them together.

http://www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/Wrap.htm

So in February I rang and spoke to a lovely lady at the organisation , acrylic yarn preferred in bright colours. One can knit a whole rug or as many squares as you like, I decided to try and finish a whole rug. Originally I was going to do the mitred square design in blocks on one colour but when I went along to our local craft morning several ladies were doing the 'magic square' in stripes and that does look colourful so decided to do that.

Again on my no seam crusade I knit to the last stitch then pick up stitches along top of square and then along the side of the adjacent square, lots of ends to darn in, but no seams. I have to do four rows of seven squares, 28 in all, and want to finish before end of June, so that is now my main project.



Cross stitch next.