New knitting yarn

What have you got on your knitting needles or crochet hooks.

I have just started a beret in basket weave stitch for the on coming winter.

 

My wife used to do a lot of knitting, particularly when the kids were small, knitting jumpers for them saved quite a bit of money. She has the ability to make up her own patterns in her head.
This was one out of her head she made for me in my late thirties. Not even sure Val Doonican would wear one of 'em now!



But these days apart from layettes for friends or relatives new babies, she rarely bothers, all her time is spent on découpage. As she says, shop-bought knitted garments are far cheaper than the cost of a few balls of Sirdar.

However she is knitting a cot blanket for our daughter's expected fourth child. The yarn is "Pompon," (balls on a thread ) the finished blanket will take on the appearance of an abacus.

http://crochet.craftgossip.com/files/2009/12/pompon-yarn-by-ricco-designs-higher-end-1209.jpg

 

Photo good too:thumb:

Yarn yes not cheap but no hobbie cheap and good when you have made it yourself.

 

Thanks for that, the photo was taken in the garden of our house in Marford, between Wrexham and Chester. The fields you can see beyond our garden belong to a farm which was between our road and the main Chester Wrexham road which was just beyond the furthest line of trees.
There were always cows in the fields and we often used to watch a fox on its daily "patrol" as it took the same route each morning.
About ten years after we moved away, sadly the farm was sold and there's a huge housing estate there now.

 

[align=left]Well done, i love that sweater........very talented![/align]

 

I am knitting a small decorative basket with flowers around the rim. I just finished a blue one which I keep on my desk and put the tv controls in it so I know where they are!
Will take a pic when I finish.

 

I don't knit anything these days - but - today I was wearing an Arran pattern jacket I knitted 37 years ago !
I might put the pic in the photo comp for November - My Favourite things.

 

I am just finishing a waistcoat made with Noro sock yarn in blues & greens. I just have to do the neckband, armbands and button bands down the front, then join the seams. I'm looking forward to wearing it.

 

What always amazes me with my wife was her patience with things she knitted. With patterns out of her head she would occasionally knit up the whole front of a sweater, then "go off the look of it" so unravel it and start again!

 

I have very fond memories of my gran knitting and and watching TV,

just looking down on the odd occation to count her stitches.

Its such a shame its a dying art.

 

This is true..

"But then for everything else there's Primark!"

(son's "nursey" partner came round for coffee this afternoon after she'd finished work. She said it was her "favourite store.")

 

I suppose its great for people who like to replace their clothes on a regular basis,

as you are lucky if the stitching lasts out for a full year.:dh:

 

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Nearly finished an got yarn left might crochet a neck cosie to match in our cillage our wool shop stays open on a Thursday afternoon for a knitting group.

 

My wife has finished the bobble blanket although she had a problem just before she cast off as a needle slipped out and a stitch ran, so she had to undo a third of it and knit it back up again! She's knitting a liittle cardi and hat for the new baby at the moment.

 

This morning I saw her look up from her knitting at something on the patio as she said "Wrong address you fool!"

It was an adult heron!