Various knitting

First – thank you to Donni and Mary for their suggestions, I’ve concocted my half-page of wittering about knittering and emailed it off to the relevant person. Now to just wait and see (I suspect that it will be a “no”, but there’s no harm in trying.)

My parents are visiting this week, and my mother, also a knitter, weaver, quilter, embroiderer… has been knitting for Ruth, and for Ruth’s dolly, Tilly:

So Granny is the soft one who knitted matching cardigans for them both – Mummy is the soft one who dressed her little girl in pale blue to match Tilly’s outfit too… (hey, my little girl won’t be my dress-up dolly for very long, I’m going to enjoy it while I can!)

And not to leave Adam out (for once I’ve managed to get a half-way decent photo of him):

There has been a serendipitous set of events in my knitting world. Firstly, my mother did indeed reject the hat I made her – the colour was all wrong for her, I knew it would be, but I didn’t bargain on Adam adopting it – it looks utterly ridiculous – he really does look like he’s wearing a teacosy. Ah well, I just need to knit him one that is properly intended for him. So, I still needed to knit a Christmas present for my mother. Secondly, I have two balls of Berocco Uxbridge Tweed that my secret pal sent me. The colour is gorgeous, but I’d been wondering what to do with just two balls. Thirdly, I signed up for the “Purl’s Snake-a-long”http://purlsnake.blogspot.com/ and was feeling a little guilty that I was doing nothing about it.

Now, can we see a solution to every problem there? Yup – I’m knitting a Snake Scarf for my mother using Berocco Uxbridge Tweed:

For some reason the red really didn’t want to show up properly, so I’ve played with the colours a bit using the Gimp – but this is reasonably close. It will only be a little scarf, but it will be long enough, and yay! Three birds with one stone!

Yesterday we all (my parents, Adam, Ruth and me) went shopping in Cambridge. The main target was the Rainbow Cafe for lunch – a wonderful vegetarian restaurant with lots of gluten-free items on the menu (I had cream of curried parsnip soup with ricecakes, followed by a slice of dandelion and burdock roulade – yum!!). I won’t bore you with a list of all the shops we traipsed round (although be proud of me – I didn’t go to Sew Creative! – although I did go to Robert Sayle (our John Lewis shop), where I fondled some Rowan Felted Tweed, but I didn’t buy any.) I did fall for the “3 for 2” in Borders though – including Colour by Victoria Finlay – a fascinating history/exploration of pigments used in paints. I’m only up to page 36, but it’s shaping up to be a really good read.

Oh, and John – look over here for a moment will you?

Has he gone? Good.

I’ve been a little bit naughty – since I first saw this pattern, I’ve been desperate to knit it. I can’t find the Karabella Soft Tweed anywhere in the UK, but then I noticed that Stash have a sale on and that South West Trading Company’s Karaoke is reduced from £7.25 to £4.00, and that it knits up to exactly the right gauge (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I still need to check that it works for me, but I’m usually pretty close to what the label says). So I’ve bought 10 balls of this:
– shade 286 – lovely rich coppery tones.

Anyway, I’d better go and be sociable.

nine comments:

I didn’t know Rainbow cafe did gluten-free too. That’s useful to know – my dad’s coeliac.

Pigwotknits () (link) - 22 March '06 - 16:03

Oooh I’ve been eyeing up that yarn at Stash too!
How did you resist Sew Creative then?!

Daisy () (link) - 22 March '06 - 18:07

Guess who sells Karabella Soft Tweed? (Hint – me)

Donni () (link) - 22 March '06 - 23:41

Hullo there. I didn’t want you to think that I’d forgotten about you but I’ve been terribly busy with school exams, college entrance (whoops, just gave away my age bracket!), and other stressful last-year-of-high-school traumas that put one into hysterics. Anyways, I’m putting together the mother-lode of all packages for you. The one I sent early on was just a teaser, a preview if you will, for what’s to come. I promise that I’ll send the package tomorrow, which means it ‘ll be on your doorstep early next week. Until then, think happy, knitterly thoughts!

Secret Pal - 23 March '06 - 01:13

Your kids are so cute, and that photo of Ruth and her doll in matching outfits is just adorable. Can’t wait to see your Sunrise Circle in progress – I’m obsessing over that pattern too. Very good choice of colour – I think some variation of sunny colour is the most appropriate for that pattern!

Marie () (link) - 23 March '06 - 22:52

Hi… Ruth and Tilly look sooo adorable. Definitely enjoy the dress-up years – I suspect that they will be only too short.

Love the look of the cardi Need a photo of the finished article…

Carolyn () (link) - 23 March '06 - 23:50

that 3 for 2 in boarders is GREAT!!!! :D I paid for all in booktokens… so 3 books for none of my own money. Sooo good.

:D

xXx

ruth () (link) - 24 March '06 - 09:33

What cute babies!! :D

pixie () (link) - 24 March '06 - 16:08

I got totally suckered by that sale at Stash too except I got a different colourway. I’ve been wanting to try Karoke for a while now. It does feel rather lovely.

Maureen () (link) - 24 March '06 - 19:27

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