More Holiday Knitting

Things have quietened down a bit now and I'm able to do a bit more knitting.




I am so pleased with how this scarf has turned out. I think the photos above are the best for showing accurately the vibrant shades of this yarn.

But you can see how soft and drapey it is here


Fiddlehead Scarf from Morehouse Farm Merino

It was thoroughly enjoyable - both the knitting of it and the actual handling of the wool. And I love the colour. It was altogether a delightful project.


This is the start of Eloise from Jane Ellison's Noro Knits - a request from Rachel although I feel very tempted to knit one for myself - perhaps she won't like it or maybe it won't fit . We'll see.


I love Noro Blossom and I think this is my favourite colour. It's very light relief after the various lacey scarves etc. In fact I'm having to have a complete rest from MS3. I'll get going on it again soon.

And another one started -

This is going to be Poppy, a V-neck jumper from Yarnplay by Lisa Shobhana Mason in two Noro yarns - Silk Garden and Cash Iroha.

And Florence is finished all but the little floral decoration and I haven't got just the right colour for it here but I will do it because I think it just finishes it off..


I still have reservations about shrugs in general and this one hasn't dispelled any. It's a bit tricky actually putting it on so that it hangs right - I can see from the photo I didn't get it quite right but we don't have a proper mirror here. This sadly might be one that I don't wear much - if at all.
Edited to add details:
The pattern is Florence from Rowan's Classic Art. The yarn is RYC Luxury Cotton DK in colour Tang (252) on 4mm and 4.5mm needles.
Thanks Vanessa :)


Thanks for all your comments and my apologies for the lack of links and individual mentions - and for my lack of comments on your blogs. The laptop is slow, I'm slow and the internet is snail slow!! It is very difficult here!

(Almost Too) Hot Holiday

No.....I don't mean the weather. It's not much better here than the weather in England, maybe a little warmer and a little less wet but definitely not the Summer weather we're used to.

No....it was the house that very nearly went up in flames last Friday. We'd only been outside for about twenty minutes and we came back in to the house full of smoke and the curtain smouldering red. This actually burst into flames as Michael ripped it down and threw it outside. You know those little plastic "collars" that are fitted on some candle lightbulbs? Well one of these had become slightly mis-shapen over the years, was too close to the light bulb and had started to melt and eventually began to burn the nearby curtain. We had a very lucky escape as another few minutes and the curtain would have set alight and then the whole house would have gone too. A lucky escape but a very unsettling experience.


The sparkly flashings in my eye have got much better and in fact I rarely see them now so that's one worry made less. My blood pressure....well it went down from the real high at the hospital although it's still a lot higher than usual but at least I'm not obsessively checking it every half hour or so; in fact the last two weeks I've had very painful sinusitis so maybe that would cause my bp to be up so I'm not checking it at all until I actually feel completely well.

My French medical vocabularly has increased quite spectacularly this holiday and is still doing so with dentistry terms being added after DH's filling fell out and was ignored until he needed an urgent dental appointment for a nasty abcess....painkillers, antibiotics and mouth wash....

Thanks to Piglottie, Christina, Knitting's Nice, Probably Jane and gilraen for your comments and well wishes. They're much appreciated.

But look - we have been doing some "normal" holiday things as well!!

These are pictures of the nearby little town of Langeais and its chateau.





I shall have some finished items to show you next time but for now here is the start of "Florence" fromRowan Classic Art. When the yarn I'd ordered from Angel Yarns arrived I had to start it straight away.

I's the first "shrug" I've knitted and I'm having trouble believing that my rectangular piece of knitting will look anything like the picture in the book but it will soon be finished and then I'll know!

The colour is "Tang" which is much more limey green than the photo shows.


And let me leave you with this lovely field of wild flowers

Lots of these have appeared this year by the fieldful around us. I can't imagine they are completely wild but they are very pretty and what I'd like is some of the seeds to make my own patch. I've bought wild flower seed packets in the past but with no results like these.