I completed the cardigan and curly whirly scarf with yarn from my stash like a good girl and what did I say in my last post .......I was going to make it a larger size , but did I ? NO, came to the end and then found another ball and remembered it was there to make the larger size . The outcome ........Kath came by today as they were out for the day and called in on their way home, so she has had a new cardi . She had also bought the same yarn and not used it so she gave me her yarn instead, back to square one!!. I am doomed to never getting my stash down ; plus she bought me yet more yarn bargains YIKES .
Still here she is modeling my FO
I also make a hat for my nieces birthday and it is being modeled yet again by my daft,adorable daughter.
So ,back to my stash I went and got out some more of the Colinette . I am making 'Asrai' in Giotto, in the shade 'Jay' which I love. I just hope this one works out as I have come to the conclusion I am not having much luck with the items I have knitted in blue !!! This last week I have frogged two other blue items , that loopy jumper disaster I made a few months ago and a shrug I made last year in Sirdar Tuscany which doubled in size after wearing a few times . I also frogged a shrug called 'Ffion' in Colinette yarns which was awful and that was in shades of blue and purple. So fingers crossed on this one,pretty please, no more 'blue frogs' I love the colour blue.
On a completely different angle....... for all of you purist, romantic's out there who rave and swoon about the sheer beauty, softness and sheen of pure wool all I can say is, buy raw fleece and all your fantasies vanish. I have bought two raw / unclean fleeces off E-bay , dirt cheap and I mean dirt. Now I don't mind the hedgerow bits,the pooey bits even but the dead ticks, oh yuck. One fleece was covered in them ; I know its been an especially bad year for ticks as we have two dogs and have had our fair share of keeping them at bay and I am normally not squeamish but this turned my already sensitive stomach .Plus I kept thinking about how uncomfortable the poor sheep must have been . Oh and I forgot , the smell was overpowering.
BUT I am not one to be beaten,so I carefully washed them so that I won't lose too much of the lanolin and raked through them so they are now clean and they smell better and are ready to be spun or be felted . So all in all I would say its worth it but I think its pot luck buying fleece unseen and hopefully I will make some yummy things out of them and know its all my own work , with the help of the sheep of course. Oh and I nearly forgot, I also got 100gm of baby alpaca fleece for 99p and it was totally clean and I am going to make some felted slippers for Emily out of that.
So I am hoping that the next time I post I will have a FO for me that I am pleased with.
5 comments:
Oh, no!!!! I really should have vetted those photos of yours before I let you put them on-line!! Daft is definately the word!! Chris was wearing her jumper like the one you're making the other night and it looks really good so hopefully you should be happy with the end result!
Wow - you've been busy. I love that scarf. I've seen the pattern and saved it for myself somewhere.
Thanks for the low down on cleaning a fleece - I think I'll leave that job for others. No pictures of poo and dead tics then?
The fact that your daughter looks lovely in the cardigan must make up for having to start from the beginning again!
The scarf, cardi and hat are adorable (oh, and the daughter!).
Not so keen on the dead ticks though! Good luck!
at least they were dead!!!
hmmm, don't think I'll be buying any fleeces unseen.
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