Here it is, my latest FO. It’s the single cable scarf from One Skein, although, this particular scarf used up two skeins because I wasn’t using the same yarn as the pattern and also needed to stashbust. It’s some Lana Gross ‘Bingo’, which I snagged from the bargain bin at Loop the last time I was there.
It’s been sitting in my stash since before Christmas and even managed to make it an inch into a 1x rib keyhole scarf before I got bored and decided to try cables. I’m really glad I did because they just look so nice! Plus, the pattern was easy to memorise, so I could knit it without concentrating too much on a pattern. There is an error in the pattern, mind – but they had the correction on the website, thankfully! Row 8 is a purl row, which made so much more sense than when I was staring at the pattern going ‘but there are only seven rows here!’.
I haven’t blocked it yet and am actually debating whether I’m going too. Hrm. I don’t really have anywhere I can stretch it out on for blocking so I shall have to see.
Time taken: Week and a half of before bed knitting.
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Sssh, I’ve managed to get internet access in my flat by dint of an unsecured wifi somewhere in the vicinity. Sky are apparently coming this weekend but I’ve given up holding my breath. Instead, here have some of the things I’ve made recently(ish) and can now post photos of.
First up, a necklace. It’s double-stranded and the beads are a mix of artificial pearls and some vintage jet beads. There’s a set of earrings to match.
I’m very pleased with this necklace, I needed something to go with my work Christmas party outfit and ended up making the set in one night, after poking about in my bead boxes and experimenting with the stranding.
I also did some stitchmarker commissions and now that both sets have been received, I can post pictures. Hooray! Set #1 was a set of eight using some lovely navy (the flash makes them look purple) scrunchy beads and some beautiful yellow-blue glass beads and set #2 was a set of six, made using Czech glass beads in shades of blue.
Knitting wise, I’m doing some stash busting at the moment, so my current on-the-needles project is the single cable scarf from One Skein. It’s an easy cable pattern (eight lines, so easy to memorise!) and it’s using up two skeins of a worsted weight purple wool I picked up from the bargain bin at Stash. It’s very pretty and I shall take photos soon.
Once that’s done, I need to get a couple baby knits done for impending cousin and some more stash busting in the shape of a One Skein Wonder in some grey DK that’s been lurking in my stash for awhile.
And hopefully, there won’t be such a gap between posts in the future!
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