Saturday, June 26, 2010

BABY HOODIE

                                         A baby was born so I took this,
And made it into this..
I ended up with 230g of yarn approximately 544 metres.
So I knitted this..

 A top down baby Hoodie with no seams and bobble buttons © Woolz'N'yarnZ 2010
Pattern will be available in my book, coming soon.


Thursday, June 17, 2010

Works in Progress and Things done...


I'm getting quite a portfolio going for the future spinning and pattern book..Here is a peak at some of the stuff being done...
Ok, firstly some hats, done and in progress...

I bought some dyed Falkland and spun it up a while ago.  I misplaced my other slouchy hat so decided to make another.  The pattern is similar,

Here it is in progress
And finished...




It has the classic Old Shale band with a trendy Tam feel.

In progress is a replacement hat for my daughter, her other one got put into the washing machine by her siblings...fatal to anything pure wool and not superwash.

It's seamless and has a square top, it will have long flaps.  More photos of this one to come.

And finally, my major project.  This simply came about through necessity.  I couldn't find a pattern that I liked enough to do.  I love cables as well so I am doing these also.
The wool is chunky, it's a crew neck, not sure if it will be as high as pictured as yet.  The pattern is top down and seamless.



It has a classic celtic design in the middle with side twists.  The sleeves are a bit unknown at this time as I am currently freelancing the cable and don't know what it's going to look like.  It will probably take quite a while to get this one done as when you are writing the pattern as you knit it it can be rather time consuming.

Also, I will have to take a bit of a break as I am hurriedly spinning some superwash for a little boy, born just the other day and I am planning a little jumper for him.
Pics of that to come!!!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Latest Project


I have just finished a traditional Faroese shawl for myself.  I used the Shetland I blended with silk.  Plan was just to use that but I ended up padding it with some other bits.

So the dark black is Shetland blended with dyed silk, the lighter black is English Leicester/Finnx from my friend Jane (Moseley Park, SA).  The coloured stripes are left overs mostly, from the bottom, Merino, bunny blend (rabbit/Merino) and Corriedale.

The pattern starts off with 475 sts, and I didn't follow the pattern I used but put my own take on it.  It has raised rows of garter sts and every 4th rep is eyelet, the body is stst with a garter sts boarder.




I really love how it's turned out.  I would like to make another one in lighter yarns.

SOAP SOAP SOAP

The show went well.  Not as well as I would have liked but well enough... Now it's soap I am doing a lot of...Yet another old craft no...