Wednesday 15 October 2008

More knitting............

.........can't seem to stop!! These are a couple more of the lace scarves I've done. The grey one is for Bean, in Rowan Country Tweed, given to me in a swap on the forum. The coloured one is for me, thick and luxurious, done in odds and ends gleaned from Vera's Sales Table at the Guild meeting a couple of months back. Cost about 18p!! I've quite a bit left, so feel some gloves coming on.........:) I knitted two hats yesterday, but they need the finishing details added, so will write about them tomorrow, and post a picture, quite an interesting knit.
This afternoon, to escape the door frame sanding I went upstairs and tackled the Terrible Neck on MrL's jumper. I bought some beautiful wool for this, ages ago now, and decided to do saddle shoulders. Now, I've been knitting a long time, and have done my share of every sort of shoulder there is, I should think, but this pattern in one of my books was wrong, wrong, wrong. Disheartened, I put it away after several attempts, before realising the complete wrongness of said pattern. It has been lurking in my knitting bag for months, which is not like me at all, so I sense something deeper at work here......... :) so - out it came, one last try, without the pattern, but no luck. So, later, I will be frogging the whole jumper and casting on another one for him. Better get on with it, though, I have 1,000 grams of Aran wool arriving by the weekend for his next one..............

3 comments:

Greentwinsmummy said...

frogging a jumper??! whats that? it sounds....baaaaaad.Thats not the one that I saw you doing sometimes is it?sort of multi coloured wool?Wow if you get confuddled by patterns theres no 'ope for me lol lol!
GTM x

MrsL said...

Frogging is taking it out - sounds nicer than ripping it back :) Called frogging because you "ribbit, ribbit " back........ It probably was the one you saw, started months ago now in that lovely bluey/orangey/mixed wool. This pattern was wrong, though, so I will mark it as such in the book for future reference, mine and others. Saddle shoulders aren't for the faint hearted, but this one nearly did for me!! :)

How's your sleeve going?

Libbys Blog said...

I've put my knitting down for far too long, I really must pick it up again!!!