A few weeks ago I was invited to join Ravelry (very exciting!) and it has rekindled my enthusiasm for showing off my projects. I am not promising super regular updates here, but I think I will start posting again sporadically when I have something interesting to say or show.
Following a visit to the Knitting and Stitching Show with (still) blogless Suzy, I now have a fair few projects in the pipeline and some lovely bags of yarn waiting eagerly to be used. I have started this one...
...after ordering the yarn from the lovely people at Scandinavian Knitting Design. The patterns are available free to download, the link to this one is: http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=102&d_id=1&lang=en, and although the instructions aren't quite laid out or written in a familiar way, I haven't had any problems with them. I changed the colours a bit to make it less blue, and have so far managed this much:
I also bought some more Noro to eventually make this:
I've been assembling a ball here and there of all sorts of Noro over the past few years when I see one I like, and now almost have enough for a jumper! This is alarmingly wide and short though, which won't do many people any favours so I think I'll do the smallest size width (for the first time ever!) and the largest size length. That should just about work, and will be good for winter with jeans and a vest.
Anyway, I seem to be back with a vengeance! Off to the Pigalle Supper Club tonight to have dinner and listen to the lovely Kathryn Williams.
Eating, knitting, drinking wine and listening to music - preferably all at the same time. Spending time with friends, especially if I can persuade them to learn to knit too. Going to gigs with my boys. Walking my gorgeous greyhound, Berty. I dream about the time when I don't have to work and can travel around the world watching sport. I have to be colour co-ordinated at all times.