Luckily this term has started gently, no major stresses at the moment and i think i can say that i am fairly focused with regards to work load.....well kind of! Despite this autumn has come and as usual a cold has too, i don't know what it is but i can never avoid getting a cold no matter how hard i try. Luckily an unlimited broadband and lovely film streaming service has kept me happy when i get back in the evenings. I've also started a knitting project.
From my previous post on dress making you can kind of gather that i like making things for myself, i think it may be something that has diffused from my mum to me, as she generally says "i can make that for you" whenever we see a nice woolly jumper/ cardi in shops, although in the end she never does.....real life gets in the way! I do however like knitting, i don't enjoy it. I'm nowhere near the stage of skill where i can say i enjoy it. I have to focus VERY carefully on what I'm doing to be able to ensure that I'm doing the right stitches. I have however made a few things in my lifetime, snowmen, santas (all when i was in primary school when I'm pretty sure my mum knit most of it) and a scarf. The scarf i knitted two years ago and has it definitely been something I've been proud of. It took me three months (told you i was unskilled), and has some nice things about it. It's teal and mustard (nice autumnal colours) and has cool a cool cable pattern running through it.
Now however i want to up my game, i want to be able to knit more. BHS has such nice woollen blankets at the moment and all i can do to stop myself from buying them is be dragged away by Adam. So i have decided that i will slowly make my way to blanket making one step at a time. The first step was to knit something, from start to finish, all by myself. No help. at. all.
I decided i wanted to do this while i was at home and dragged out all the knitting paraphernalia that is there. Sadly there wasn't any patterns for knitted hats like i wanted but i did find a pattern book that has patterns for trivial things, like tea cosys, mobiles, etc. I decided to make a tea cosy and voila...here it is!
It seems to sit nicely in with the rest of my tea time shelf....it has to, there's nowhere else for the teapot to live!
I did a bit of a silly thing when i was making it though and on one of the sides i left out two rows which means that when i sewed it up together one side is longer than the other and it now sits in a funny way on the teapot....but who can tell? It does it's job well and i can say that i was able to knit something from start to finish completely by myself.....oh and a tiny bit of you tube to work out how to 'sew it off'!
Is anyone else knitting or is it just me?
Chloe x
I wouldn't worry about missing two lines, you can't tell at all :) I think a cable knit scarf is very impressive even if it did take 3 months. I haven't attempted cable just yet (so many, ok 4, needles needed that it freaks me out a bit) but I might have a go after Christmas x
ReplyDeleteAw thank you. I think I've blocked out how fiddely cable was to be honest, but the pattern i had only needed one cable needle so maybe its not as bad as some of them.
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