Handsome Triangle

I'm not exactly able to do much knitting at the moment as it's always busy at the start of our holidays even when I'm not looking after a daughter who arrived on antibiotics for one infection and within a day of getting here, hurt her back and has been unable to lift either of her two young children. Fortunately she is on the mend.

Here is what I was working on before we came to France:

A Handsome Triangle from Jane Sowerby's Victorian Lace Today and isn't it beautiful?



And some more pictures...










I used 4.5mm needles with Silk 'de la Mer' - colour Pearl Rose - from Piece of Beauty Yarns. This yarn is such a silky and soft combination of silk (70%) and sea cell (30%) and 600m to 150gm. I didn't pay enough attention to the yardage requirements when I bought my yarn so my shawl isn't as big as in the book but it is quite big enough.

In the rush of getting ready for holiday I forgot to measure the shawl after blocking so I will add those details when we get home later (much later).



And this bag for Kate




The Rowan lady at the Kingston John Lewis shop told me what to do. It's knitted in Rowan Summer Tweed on 4.5mm needles and the different coloured stripes are based exactly on the colours of Martin Storey's "Sunshine", a short-sleeved top, in Rowan's Kasbah Collection.

Felted Bebbie Bliss Aran Tweed Bag

It's Kate's (DD2) birthday on Friday and her AbFab will be finished then but I had hoped to have it ready to give her when we spend this weekend in London with her. Unfortunately the last of the wool I wanted didn't arrive until Wednesday and there just hasn't been time to get it fininshed.

Here is an in-progress photo to show you the colours.

I hope she likes it as much as Rachel (DD3) liked hers.

I made this DB Aran Tweed bag with some yarn left over from my cardi. I used 6 balls and could have used less because although I'd swatched, the finished bag didn't felt as much as I'd expected so it is quite a bit bigger than I wanted. It'll still be useful though and it looks good with that pinky Boden dress that I've still not worn. It was funny because the wool actually felted very nicely - no stitch definition left etc but it just didn't shrink as much as I'd expected. Strange. But then I know felting is a fairly inexact science.





Knitting Obsession

Have you seen this little video clip from YouTube? It's called "The Last Knit". Kate sent it me....I guess that's what she thinks of me...but it's not true - I'm not that obsessional - and anyway I don't have long hair.