Not real Vikings though! It was my birthday at the end of July and my amazing friend bought me a knitting kit for a colourwork hat. It was a kit by The Bearded Viking called The Sea Shanty Kep.
I knit that bugger in like 2 days. I couldn't stop, it was addictive as all hell, the pattern was very easy to follow despite some rows having 3 colours! The yarn was lovely sticky Shetland wool, perfect for colourwork but a little itchy for me on the head so I watched a quick tutorial on how to line the hat - which I then did VERY badly as I am THE worst sewist. Still I could not be happier with the finished hat.
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| inside look at the floats |
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| don't look at that terrible stitching! |
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| I am THIS hawt. Also I was cold after a sea swim hence giant cardi in August! |
I have been struggling to settle on a new project after I finished the hat of perfection. So I finished some socks that have been kicking about for longer than I care to remember. These ones - the yarn is Opal I think but the ball band is long gone - were supposed to be beautifully designed by me socks for my dad for Christmas BUT I attempted a short row heel - I usually do a heel flap and gusset (that word always makes me say oooo-er in my head after typing/saying it) but wanted to try a different heel. I finished the first sock very quickly months ago, cast on the second last week, got to the heel, did heel wrong, pulled it out re-knit the sodding thing 4 times. Finally sat step by step with the instructions and produced a beautiful heel and realised I had done the heel completely wrong on the first sock with no real way to fix the sodding thing so now they are my husbands as he has no effs to give about wonky heels, he just loves handknit socks!
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| Wonky heel socks. |
Then I finished these DK weight socks - these always meant for my husband. They are just a something like 5x2 rib and a little bit tight though, but again he isn't bothered and they have been on his feet a lot so that's a good sign. I like DK weight socks they feel more substantial so I think I will knit more of these. I am well aware that these socks don't match and honestly I don't care - I might if they were for someone else but for me or him I never mind if they are wonky. I'm good at wonky me!
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| DK socks. |
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| Kit by Hilltop Cloud |
I absolutely loved this kit, the fibres were different every day, each little skein is about 25g of fibre which is a great amount for daily spinning. I have no idea what the skeins are going to be knit into yet, if you have any ideas let me know!
I have just cast on something that I never knit, ever because I hate knitting them ...scarves! I am knitting myself an actual scarf, not a shawl and not a cowl a bloody scarf. I bought one skein of Wollmeise yarn from Loop in London when my gorgeous friend took me away for the weekend for my 40th several years ago. And it is a splurge yarn for me so I have taken my time choosing a project. It is too beautiful for socks and not enough yardage for a garment, then I thought a scarf! Then I thought, yack, I hate knitting scarves, then I thought but think of the end product! I finally finished arguing with myself and cast on a basic feather and fan scarf and I think it is showing off the yarn really well. Let's just hope I finish the damn thing! So far so good to be honest, its good telly knitting only having to do something other then knit and purl every 4 rows. But wish my magpie brain good luck eh?
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| feather and fan scarf |
And that is about it for the last few weeks, knit and spinning wise. I have been putting off starting a new big project for a pretty bizarre reason. There is a big cupboard in my dining room which I think used to be the old airing cupboard which would have housed the boiler. There is a few big shelves and a little shelving unit at the bottom and I store ALL my yarn, fibre and most of my tools in there too - like niddy noddy's, sock blockers, needles, project bags, the sewing machine I have never used, the broken sewing machine I can't bring myself to chuck etc etc. Well, a couple of weeks ago I opened the door to hoover and saw a movement and I was pretty sure it was a mouse, I'm not scared of mice so pulled the machine at the bottom and realised it was the biggest spider I had ever seen. I am horrendously arachnophobic, it has stressed me just to type the 'S' word, I screamed the blumming place down, the husband came running to the rescue - he is always having to deal with the crawlies in the house and he isn't scared at all- until now - the damn thing was SO BIG that he screamed the place down too but luckily he got over himself and saved us all from the evil. But now I am absolutely terrified of my cupboard. I can't go in there by myself- I have to get past it or what the hell am I going to do??
Til next time knitting friends x
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