Brenda Spoke

And I am answering her call to blog!


It's been ages, mostly because I've been busy and also not knitting that much, but now I have blue hands from the hand dyed Lopi I'm using for the Notre Dame de Grace sweater (Veronik Avery, Interweave Knits Summer 2007) for C. The back seems a bit narrow, and I'm getting 17.5 stitches to 4" rather than 17stitches; however, I know that when I washed and blocked my swatch it loosened up and flattened out considerably, so I'm going to assume it'll be ok!



I love the colour, which really glows, but I suspect will end up considerably lighter once washed (or C with a blue neck). I'll try additional vinegar in the rinse.

I've also started on the Secret of Chrysopolis stole - the first clue was out on Friday. I must check that my team are going ok! (That's my Mum, aunt and S-i-L). I noticed that the 2 garter stitches at each edge of the stole were only represented by 1 box at each side of the chart. the chart looks big for one week's clue, but it is all pretty straightforward stuff, and repetitive enough to use stitch markers if wanted. We'll see how we go! The Malabrigo is incredibly soft, I'm loving that.



I'm still hoping to do the Honeybee Stole in my Fyberspates yarn after the Chrysopolis one, and took this pic out of the passenger window in Moseley, Birmingham - it's on the wall of a business, ? solicitors' (attorney). Rather sweet, n'est-ce pas?

Mitred Rainbow

When I saw the Modern Quilt Wrap on Knitting Daily I knew I had the replacement I wanted for my beloved, lost River. And a use for all those part balls of KSH!

Unfortunately, lots of other people felt the same, so mine won't be the only scarf like this. Also, I actually have all the right yarns except I think my Rose might in fact be Candy Girl.

Of course, my squares are not terribly square, but WTF, I think it'll look great either way (and if necessary, I'll pick up all the way round to neaten it).

Secret of Chrysopolis swatch

I'm just not up there with cool names for my posts, am I? Anyway, here's the swatch, on 3.5 mm needles as suggested, using Malabrigo laceweight in Verde Adriana colour 117.

I've measured it (vaguely!). It's supposed to be 10cm for 3 repeats wide (it's 13cm) and 10cm for 5 repeats tall (it's 9cm for 3 repeats). Do I care? I think the stocking stitch areas may be a bit too open, so I might swap to 3.25mm without further swatching; we'll see how it looks and feels when dry. I might see what Brenda reckons when she comes to stay.

The colour is more accurate in the brighter, unblocked shot, and the stripes are a little less obvious in the flesh, as it were. They'll change with a larger stole, anyway - this is only 29 stitches wide!

Other than this, I've been a bit stuck with my knitting. I didn't do any while I was in Wales last week, too busy, and too much wet paint and small sticky kids. I have planty on the go, though I am keen to start on something with the lovely speckled Koigu P70726 sent by Selma. I need to go to work, so no pics of that now. I'm thinking about Pomatomus, I think that would show off the beautiful deep speckles floating in the muted background rather well. (See Wanderlustlost's version, if you're in Ravelry). On the other hand, I had also thought of this for some bamboo sock yarn I have. Hmmmmmm.