Progress

The granny square blanket: adding a border in the main colour to each square

and also knitting a child's sweater. It is a pattern from Lang Yarns (#4). I found the brochure in the market in Seoul last year. Getting the Lang yarn (Omega)was too expensive for the postage - so I've opted for Berocco Comfort DK - which is 50% nylon and 50% acrylic. It has a very soft feel - so far so good...

Finished another project

This is the Alpaca Boucle jumper - pattern and yarn from Touchyarns.

It is nice and long, warm and soft against the skin.

But for winter I'm going to need a scarf for my neck.

It feels good to finish something and now I can move on to the myriad of other projects I want to tackle

It's been awhile

Well - it has been awhile because I was in India - doing mosaic tile work.

You can read about it on my other blog if interested

http://wreninkorea.blogspot.com

While away I did get to make some granny squares. My sister and I are making a blanket for a friend affected by the Christchurch earthquakes.

And since getting back I have been working on the Boucle Jumper. Almost finished the second sleeve - which will leave the front to be done.

Boucle jumper/sweater

I've now finished the back of the boucle jumper. It's been a bit slow going as I had to finish my other wip. The boucle is a pain to knit with but the end result is soft.

Lee's top finished

This is not a great photo but ...

It is the Liesl top - made for a friend - a bigger size and no pockets

Black Louet Euroflax Linen

Now to post it off

And here they are

...all 29 of them

But wait....

...there's (going to be) more

Something completed

Here they are: 3 balls = 12 squares

I usually made one a day - it's been fun and I'm tempted to make some more but for now I'll post these off.

wips, wips, wips

In case you didn't know - 'wip' stands for 'work in progress'

Some more squares for Crochet a Rainbow.

And a little impulse buy...

In today's newspaper there was a story about New Zealanders spending $16m a day on impulse buying. And yesterday I contributed to that at Touch Yarns in Clyde. They had a sample of the sweater/jersey and I tried it on and Bingo - I wanted it. So now I'm also making my own Alpaca Boucle jumper. It has a lovely 'drape' and I hope it turns out as well as the sample one. The pattern is a modified version of an older Touch Yarn pattern for a square neck sweater (#14)

Next projects

First up is another Liesl top - from Cocknits. I'm making it for a friend and using black Louet Euroflax linen (sport weight). It's knitted in the round and starts at the bottom. Progress is slow at the beginning because there are so many stitches but slowly but surely...
And then I've been a little diverted by a project from http://sarahlondon.wordpress.com called Crochet a Rainbow. Volunteers make crochet granny squares and then send them to her and they will be made into blankets and given to people who have suffered in the recent flooding in Queensland and Victoria in Australia. I think it is a great idea and would be a lovely thing to receive. Can't wait to see some of the finished blankets.
For my squares I'm using a Shepherd Baby Merino wool that I found in a local yarn shop in Cromwell - the colours are working well together.
They are fun and easy to make - I might go off and look for some more yarn when I run out of this one...it's all for a good cause.

Finished - well almost

Ooops -not the greatest of photos. The picot edge is in a colour called Marmalade - a dirty orange. The photo here makes it look variegated - but it's not. I'm not going to have the riboon down the front as in the pattern but may use it at the top as a tie - otherwise I'll try a button - it needs something when it's on.
I might model it when I get some more clothes! I'm living out of a suitcase although the first of my boxes posted from Korea did arrive the other day - so I can relieve the boredom of the same few things.

New Project

Don't you just love starting something new?

Now I'm on holiday in Hong and can relax a bit - so I've started on this cardigan.

A girl can never have too many cardigans.

The pattern is called Crinkle and it's by Martin Storey. It was in Rowan Magazine #39.

A friend had given me some black Knitpicks cotton - and so I decided to order more and make this. So far - so good...

Christmas presents

I made lots of these trays for Christmas presents - a variety of colours/papers - even ones that were all black. But i forgot to photograph them all! Oh well this is plenty.

I'm even keeping one of the pink and green ones for myself as a memento of my time in Korea

One last Christmas present

I am making this scarf for my co-teacher here in Korea.

The pattern, called Gathered Scarf for your Mother-in-Law was a free Ravelry download.

I am using a Knitpicks yarn called Alpaca Cloud in a colour called Iris. It is 100% Alpaca - Heathered laceweight - so I am using 2 strands together.

The yarn has a lovely rainbow of colours within the main Iris/purple colour - maybe that is what they mean by Heathered?

Knitpicks don't ship internationally so I had the yarn sent to a friend in the US who then forwarded it to me (thanks Leah) and when it arrived I suddenly realised I needed to knit fast....another 6 days before I will give it to her - whatever length it is then is whatever the final length will be.

One more

This worked so well I just had to make another