I know, I know, you were worrying about it only being cast on and no stitches done for quite a while now, but rest assured, you can breathe easy now! I’ve actually done some more on it!
I finished the moss stitch border at the bottom and am now on the main pattern part, which aside from the moss stitch sides is all stocking stitch on 4mm needles so is going a lot faster.
I wasn’t in the mood for much knitting or anything at all last week, all things considered (I spent the time recuperating after surgery) but this week I feel awake and much more mobile so I’ve been working away at the green top and even started a new crochet project!
But I’ll show that in another post. For now, here is what I have so far and a pic of what it is supposed to look like when finished…
Yes, it’s not a huge amount done, but it’s something! And there is absolutely no rush for it to get finished.
I’m finding that after a good six months of hardly any projects on the go at the same time, I’m really liking casting on a lot of things at once!
I could never be a truly monogamous knitter. I guess it’s shiny new object syndrome!
Last week I sent another box of knitted goodies to charity. It’s great for me as I have more room to make more stuff now!
Do you remember some of these below from previous posts this year? All gone now as well as more blankets that I forgot to take pictures of!
I loved the Christmas blankie so much…but there comes a point when you have to say to yourself “Actually, I have ENOUGH knitted blankets now!”.
I have a few projects on the go which are:
Knitted baby cardigan
Knitted sock yarn shawl
Knitted socks
Orange granny square blanket using up scraps from a jumper I made earlier in the year
That’s enough to be getting on with now. I have a few ideas for future projects which is basically, a top down sweater and more socks! Also a tank top and a neon fair isle cowl.
Since I got rid of a lot of scrap fabric the other day, I don’t have a lot of sewing projects planned. Although I did buy a couple of cute Christmas fat quarters from a local sewing shop a couple of days ago…I couldn’t help myself!
Just look at the traditional Christmas colours on the fat quarter on the right!
I never go for weird Christmas colours…I remember as a teenager in the early 2000’s when they bought out black Christmas trees for the first time, as well as purple and silver as a festive colour combo…I hated them! What was wrong with golds, red and greens?
Anyway…I have NO IDEA what I’m going to make with them…probably zipper bags as they are my absolute favourite sewing make!
Mother and me went on a Christmas Wreath making workshop yesterday and our wreathes looked pretty good!
It’s a day later and they haven’t fallen apart so that’s a success in my book!
I chose to decorate mine with whole oranges, pine cones and slices of dried limes, thinking I would go for the all natural theme. I was going to put some cinnamon sticks in there too…but less is more when it comes to wreathes.
I put some straggly bits around the edges, which if I did it again, I probably would skip. But it’s the first ones we’ve ever made and I think they look OK for total beginners! 🙂
The whole process was really easy too.
Buy a metal wreath ring from your local craft shop/ florist
Wrap it with metal
Stuff moss around the ring and wrap that with wire for your base
Add your leaves and foliage…make sure to wrap it all tightly
Add decorations such as ribbons, pine cones, baubles, oranges etc.
This was a really simple Corner To Corner crochet baby blanket for a friend who is expecting soon. It’s so fluffy and soft!
It’s been nice doing a bit of crochet again as lately it’s all been about the knitting!
I used 4 balls of James C. Brett Fluttery Chunky, you can get it here from The Knitting Network (affiliate link). I like it, it’s easy to crochet with (I used a 5mm hook). The only thing I would say is to get the balls with the same dye lot. I didn’t think it would matter with a chinky fluffy yarn like this one, but it does!
I bought 3 balls one day and went back another day for the fourth…you can tell close up the different dye lots. It’s not super obvious to someone who hasn’t made it…but I can still see the difference!
Here’s a couple of pictures of it below:
You can’t really see the pattern clearly with the fluffy wool, but the gaps aren’t as big in real life as they look in the pics!
Now I just need to finish the knitted cardiganI started a few days ago and another few other baby bits and bobs and then I’m finished with baby makes for a little bit.
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It’s my brother’s birthday today and I spent 20 minutes this morning making him a fabric zipper gift bag.
I was aiming for ‘eco-friendly’ as I didn’t want to use wrapping paper which would just get thrown away. At least he can reuse the bag.
And I haven’t sewn anything for a few months…I’m just chuffed I didn’t have to look up which way to place the fabric, I figured it out all by my little self!
My friend Lizzie bought me the fabric a few weeks ago (thank you!) and there is enough left to do something else with it.
The nerd in me loves the fact that Halloween Darth Vader is a skeleton…in Return of the Jedi you see him briefly as a skeleton when he gets electrocuted. That fabric was designed by a true believer…
I just did a basic bag and inside there is his card, a couple of books, a pack of posh cookies and some loose chocolates. He doesn’t read this blog so don’t panic!
It was good to get the sewing machine out again.
That was basically my only finished make of the week. I’ve also cast on a new knitted baby cardigan and made a pom pom for a baby hat I finished a few days ago. But it’s all been writing still…no time to craft anymore!
After finishing my orange knitted jumper last week, I now have more time to concentrate on knitting other items. Here’s a list of what’s on my needles at the moment.
Sock Yarn Shawl
I’m doing a simple garter stitch shawl in 4ply sock yarn. I started this at the end of last year, and I’ve only just picked it up again, but honestly, there’s no rush for this, so it’s my ‘do a few rows here and there’ kind of project. I love the colours and I’ve only done about 30 rows. Slow going but fun going!
The yarn is by West Yorkshire Spinners (Passionfruit Cooler colour)and you can get it here from The Knitting Network:
I cast on the first sock yesterday and I’ve just done a rows of ribbing so far. I hate using DPNs but I’m determined to get the hang of socks. I have so much sock yarn to use up!
I’m doing a basic vanilla sock yarn pattern by Winwick Mum and it’s going well so far.
I’ve done a lone, single sock before many years ago. That took me 3 weeks to do and put me off doing the other one! So, I’m starting all over again, with a different pattern and yarn and we’ll try and make it to 2 socks this time, shall we?!
Baby Cardigan Test Knit
A friend is having a baby in December and I wanted to try a raglan cardigan pattern. I really hate raglan patterns, but I like the look of the finished object! I tried to knit myself a raglan jumper a few years ago and struggled with sewing it together as I found the sleeves really awkward!
This is just a quick knit in a newborn size and so far I’ve done the fronts and back pieces and 1 sleeve, with the 2nd sleeve rib done and now I’m working on the main part of it. Then I just need to sew it all together and do the button bands and neck edgings.
If I like the look of it and think it wasn’t too bad to sew up, then I’ll cast on another one in a different colour yarn! With matching hat, mitts and bootees of course!
Baby Blanket
I think quite a few posts ago I said I wanted to knit the same friend an entrelac blanket. Well, that’s been changed slightly as I think that would take me AGES to make and 2 months isn’t enough time! So, I’m doing a different lace pattern blanket and that’s going to be quite small, so ideal for a pram. And I’m also making a squishy crochet blanket (see below) which will be bigger and have more uses.
I chose a dark pink and purple held double as I’m sure she’ll be getting a lot of baby pink items (for a girl) and I thought this was a different option to stand out. We’ll see what it looks like finished.
I tried to hold it up against the light so you could see the pattern, not sure if you can but it looks good so far.
Crochet Baby Blanket
A simple corner to corner crochet blanket. I have 3 balls of chunky yarn, I might see if I can do 2 for the increases and 2 for the decreases (obviously I need to get another ball of yarn).
So, that’s it for now.
Christmas is coming up and I wanted to knit a few small baubles and things, but honestly, I knitted so much Christmas stuff last year, that it isn’t even a priority right now. The baby things first and then I might see if I can cast on a tank top (sweater vest) for my Dad…I might get it started before Christmas, but I probably won’t get it finished!
And Christmas socks for me with Christmas sock yarn…and I have lots of spare DK yarn, so something to do with that…and neon yarn…
So many things I want to start, but I have 5 things on the go for definite now!
I think that’s enough to be getting on with…
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It is the post you’ve all been desperately waiting on tenterhooks for! Don’t panic for it is here!
The Knitted Orange Jumper…is DONE!
Several years, 2 summers and mentioned in almost every blog post as that orange knitted jumper. I can’t believe it’s finally getting crossed off the list!
I still need to block it, which I’ll do this week sometime, but it looks like it is supposed to…which if you’ve ever seen some of my other attempts at following patterns, then you’ll know that’s not always a foregone conclusion.
And although I made a couple of silly mistakes on the back piece, the front is perfect and overall, there isn’t much actually wrong with the finished piece. I’ve actually sewn it together quite well too.
Can you tell how happy I am to have this finally finished?!
It fits, it’s snug and tight for a few reasons. Mainly I chose my size from the options instead of measuring myself. I think in future I’ll knit up a size or two as I prefer baggy/ slouchy sweaters to tighter fitting ones. It’s also a little shorter than I thought it would be when finished but again, I know for next time. But overall, it’s a success!
The pictures below show the neckline, the sleeve edging and the side seam, which I did using mattress stitch. I’ve always struggled with seaming and sewing items up neatly, but I’m chuffed with this! And the neckline I picked up in the right way so it all looks neat! 🙂
The pattern was from a magazine compendium and it was by Pat Menchini. Possibly called Cinnamon Spice, but I’m not sure.
I used 4 1/2 balls of wool. I bought 7, even though it suggested 5 or 6 balls. So, I have 2 1/2 leftover for another project later.
And the wool was really cheap from my local yarn shop. I used a different yarn to the pattern (in a similar shade) as my local yarn shop didn’t stock the one from the pattern and I was impatient!
I used King Cole Big Value Tweed DK in shade Rust (3029).
You can buy it here from The Knitting Network if you like the look of it (they might not have the exact shade but the other shades are pretty good too!). 🙂
So…yeah, I’m pleased it’s finally ticked off my list! That makes 2 jumpers completed this year (my first 2 ever!). I’m moving onto other things now, but next year a knitting goal is to try a top down sweater. I’m knitting baby clothes and blankets now, as well as a sock yarn shawl for me and I just cast on a pair of socks yesterday.
I’ll make a post with all my current WIPs together as I actually just took some photos today in the right light!
Hope you’re all having a happy and productive Monday! 🙂
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After almost a year of writing variations of “...and still on the list is the Knitted Orange Jumper” I can now say that the front AND back are done and…wait for it…no, still wait for it…
THEY’RE IN ONE PIECE NOW!
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!
Progress has finally been made, I’ve made a bit of a mega push lately to try and get it done and yesterday I FINALLY managed to finish the front.
Today I’ve sewn up the left shoulder and done the ribbing for the neckband, hopefully I’ll be able to sew up the right shoulder tonight (it’s almost 9pm now) and then do the sleeve edges and finish sewing up the sides tomorrow, and then it’s done.
The sleeve bits might take a day or two longer, but I’m so pleased to be able to say that the end is most definitely in sight.
I’ve had a bad cold over the weekend, I couldn’t stand the thought of sitting at a computer and writing, but sitting in bed and knitting? That I could do!
I started this on 2018!!! Did a few rows of ribbing and put it down until summer last year when I picked it up and did the back. I picked it up in August this year and have basically spent 2 months on and off working on the front.
I took the picture below yesterday before I finished the front. I’ll wait until tomorrow for more pics but yay! It’s almost done!
I had a few ingredients to use up so I thought I’d make a new hand salve/ cuticle balm.
A lotion bar type thing…except I pour it into tiny plastic pots which saves on a lot of the mess and you can wash out and reuse when they’re empty.
I’m not an expert at this kind of thing, but I do like to have a play around and it’s really easy to do.
Basically I used equal parts of beeswax, runny oil and a hard oil or butter. If you want it softer, add more runny oil or take out some of the beeswax. If you like it really hard, make sure you have more beeswax or use harder butters.
I have a huge tub of shea butter that I wanted to use up and I had exactly 1 1/2 cups of beeswax left, so that’s why everything is this amount! That makes a lot of mixture, but at least I got rid of a few bottles of oil!
The only ingredients I have left now apart from essential oils are shea butter and a bottle of sweet almond oil so I’ll have to find a recipe to use those up in the future.
The shea butter and beeswax I bought from an Etsy shop called Classikool (in the UK). They do food and body related ingredients with minimal packaging and I’ve bought from them several times in the past. They’ve always had fast shipping and their products have always been great. I’ve bought cocoa butter and other oils like Carrot Tissue, St John’s Wort and more.
Here’s the affiliate link to their shop below if you want to have a look:
First of all I melted the beeswax and shea butter in a double boiler (if you don’t have a double boiler you can do what I did, which is to use a jug for your ingredients in a pan of hot water).
Once they are all melted I added the runny oils, in this case Sweet Almond Oil and Jojoba Oil and mixed it all together until it’s all melted and clear.
I took it off the heat for a few minutes to cool down slightly before I added the Lemon, Rosemary and Bergamot essential oils.
You need to be careful with some essential oils as to the ratio/amount you put in, but I’ve done this before quite a few times, so I had a good idea when to stop!
Stir it all together and if you want to add any colouring to it, do it now. I like mine to look natural so I didn’t add any colouring.
I then poured the mixture into little plastic pots and left them to solidify at room temperature for the rest of the afternoon and got on with other stuff!
All done!
To use, just scrape/ scoop a bit out of the pot with your finger, and it should melt a bit on your fingers or your palm, just rub it into your hands.
I wouldn’t use this on my face, but it’s good for cuticles, hands and areas of rough skin. It’s really good for elbows and cracked heels…just put it on at night when you’re sitting down to give it a chance to sink in a bit!
These make really sweet and useful Christmas or Birthday gifts for people and they are SO easy to make! And they’re handmade in re-usable packaging!
I thought I’d try a stocking mould I’ve had for a while and never used…it came out quite good if I say so myself! But I didn’t have a tin big enough for it, so it’s in a plastic bag for now.
It goes without saying that you need to double check your ingredients and recipes for this kind of thing. This isn’t really an in depth tutorial kind of post.
For essential oils there are guidelines for use with children (basically use less!) and about how much you use in each recipe. Some essential oils can only be used in small amounts as they can react with the sun on your skin…so be careful!
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I love to look at yarn. And squish it if possible!
Since there are a lot of creative people following this blog (and I know a lot of you either knit, crochet or sew) I thought I’d share a few yarn shops that I like and maybe you will too!
I love seeing what independent small businesses can come up with, with their hand-dyed yarn colour combinations. I wish I had the space to create my own hand-dyed yarn…alas I do not!
I don’t think the shops I’ve followed for a while hand spin their yarns (please correct me if I’m wrong!) but they do hand dye them.
The Camels Yarn (Find them on Etsy and Instagram @thecamelsyarn)
This shop makes the most amazing seaside inspired yarn combinations. Sand and sea colours, natural colours and inspiration, gradients, speckles. I love their dark green hank, I think it’s called Evergreen.
2. Woolly Mama Yarns (Find them on Etsy and Instagram @woollymamayarns)
NEON! Need I say more?! The brightest and most vibrant hand-dyed yarns I’ve seen. They remind me of 80’s inspired colour combinations. Carnival, Disco Inferno and Samba colour ways are ones to look out for! I would love to make some neon, bright cowls or wrist warmers with these hanks…or just put them on my wall and gaze longingly at the NEON!
3. The Lonely Knitter (Find them on Instagram @thelonelyknitter or Ravelry @TheLonelyKnitter2 or their website Crafter’s Balm)
I followed this Instagram account for the self striping sock yarn club, but if you look on the website there are other hand-dyed yarns too. It’s difficult to describe the colours of the yarns from this account, but I’d say lots of self striping yarns named after TV shows and Books – The Fellowship of the Ring/ The Walking Dead inspired colour ways. Brights, pastels, natural colours. I love the purple colours and greens.
When I win the lottery, I will empty these yarn shops!
Also, I’ll have a room just for yarn which you’ll enter through a secret bookcase via my craft room. It’ll be like the library from Beauty and the Beast except instead of ceiling to floor books, there will be ceiling to floor WOOL on every wall, with a ladder to reach the top! But that’s a story for another day..
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I’ve made a lot of bread the past 2 years, but since December 2020 I’ve hardly made any. Until today.
It’s a cottage loaf recipe (using butter instead of oils) and I added a mix of seeds like pumpkin, sunflower, linseed etc to the white flour.
I had to use up the flour by next month so it was good to get back into it again, even if I was a little slow getting all the bowls and ingredients out!
Did you know it was Lammas/ Lughnasadh this weekend just gone?
I’m not a Pagan at all, but the Wheel of the Year (all the Pagan celebrations like Spring and Autumn Equinox, Samhain (Halloween), Yule, Imbolg…) does make a certain sort of sense to me.
Lammas is a time to celebrate the harvest coming in, people make corn/wheat dollies, bake bread, have feasts, preserve food, have bonfires…
So, here is my Lammas (short for Loaf Mass) bread complete with plait and everything!
I like the feel of late summer when the fields start to turn from green to gold. I’ve heard the farmers in the nearby fields getting the harvest in for the last couple of weeks or so.
And really, I just wanted to make a loaf of bread!
I had some seeds leftover, so instead of finding them a plastic bag or somewhere to put them and forgetting to use them, I just threw them to the birds and filled up the bird bath with water, so the birds can have a mini Lammas feast too!
I saw about 15 House Sparrows in the garden after I did that. They’re very sweet birds -some even nested in our roof this year. They’ve stopped cheeping now, so I think they’ve all left the nest!
Here’s a pic of the finished loaf.
I’ve struggled with making crispy loaves and I think I know the secret now…put a bowl of hot water under it when it’s cooking so the oven gets all steamy.
The smell of fresh bread has gone through the whole house now…Yum!
(Can you believe the plait looked perfect before it was baked…now it looks wonky!).
As well as getting a few jobs done today like shredding papers, tidying up etc. I also did a spot of knitting. This is where I am on my orange jumper:
I’ve done just over the first pattern repeat. You can’t see it properly I don’t think, but there are 2 bits of stocking stitch on each end, 2 cable and lace panels and then a section of stocking stitch in the middle.
It’s a beginner friendly pattern and it was in one of those knitting magazine books where it’s just patterns and they take patterns you’ve seen in other magazines a few times before, but bring it into one place. Does that make sense?!!
Like a more expensive and thicker version of a knitting magazine, by the same editors and publishers, just no articles and very few ads.
I know what I mean! It’s from a few years ago, and I did the back last year, about this time actually, so it feels a bit like deja vu!
I’m on the front now and then sew it together, do some short sleeves and neckline once it’s sewn up and then it’s done. Hopefully I can finish it this year…I started the rib of the back piece in 2018 I believe, then put it away for ages before picking it up again last year.
I love it still, but I’m sick of seeing it on my needles. I want to wear it!
The yarn was really cheap, less than £2 I think, it’s King Cole Big Value Double Knitting in Shade 3029 Rust.
The pattern was by Pat Menchini, I can’t see a name for it. There is an optional cowl to go with it, but I’m just doing the jumper!
Yes, the rib at the bottom is HUGE!
Sometimes I can have a real go at it and get a whole pattern repeat done in one go (that’s 24 rows) and other times I lucky if I manage 2 rows!
But I love the pattern on the cable panels on each side.
And look what came in the post today from Deramores…my Christmas sock yarn!
I only got one ball…I’ve only ever made 1 sock in my life (that’s not 1 pair…I mean 1 sock!) and I guess I had half a ball left for the other one. Hopefully I have enough to make a pair out of one ball…although I have some orange sock yarn to use for the heels or toes if not.
If you want to have a look for yourself, I’ll pop an affiliate link here (for The Knitting Network). There are other lovely Christmas colour ways in this range too. I really like the Fairy Lights colour too…
Now all I need is an easy beginner sock pattern…and the patience of a Saint since it took me 3 weeks to make my first ever sock a few years ago (no wonder I only made one!!). Hahaha!
Also, on a completely unrelated topic…look at that sunset last night – it’s on my iPhone which just doesn’t do the sky justice at all!
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Last week I was home alone and what better excuse to try out a homemade veggie curry?!
I made this up from scratch with whatever ingredients I had on hand or in the cupboards. The only things I got specifically for this was some coconut cream and some coriander leaves. And naan bread…it’s not a curry without naan bread, right?!
I just guessed amounts, don’t ask me for exact measurements because I just eyeballed it!
This made enough for me for dinner and the same again leftover.
Ingredients
1 small onion
Crushed garlic clove
Small knob of grated ginger
Red lentils
Cauliflower
Spring greens
Diced butternut squash
Coconut cream (or milk if you prefer)
Herbs and spices of your choice:
I used 1 teaspoon each of: turmeric, cumin, hot chilli powder and smoked paprika
Coriander leaves
Method
Dice the onion, grate the ginger and garlic and fry together in a bit of oil. Add the spices and stir. (I used 1 teaspoon each of turmeric, cumin, hot chilli powder and smoked paprika but feel free to add spices of your choice…maybe some chilli flakes if you like it a bit hotter?). You can add a splash of water here if stuff starts to stick to the pan.
Add the diced butternut squash (If you buy the pre-cut stuff from a supermarket then all you have to do is chop it a bit smaller – much quicker!) and stir in. I used most of a pack of the pre-cut stuff coz I’m lazy!
Whilst that is cooking, chop and add the cauliflower. I used about half a cauliflower and kept the rest for cauliflower cheese the next night. I used medium sized pieces of cauliflower as it cooks quite quickly compared to the butternut squash.
I added the carton of coconut cream here. You could use coconut milk if you wanted something a bit lighter.
Then I added a couple of handfuls of red lentils, some salt and pepper and another splash of water as the liquid didn’t cover all the veg in the pot!
I left that to cook for awhile and at the end I added some spring greens, a handful of frozen peas and some coriander leaves and stirred in.
I can’t remember how long I cooked it for, I kept checking until the cauliflower and butternut squash were cooked through and until the lentils looked done.
I had made some yellow rice (rice with a spoonful of turmeric added in) and I heated up a naan bread. Once I put it on the plate I added more coriander on top – it’s my favourite herb!
Yum!
You can make this your own by using whatever veg you have on hand. Sweet potatoes instead of butternut squash. Or normal yellow/ white potatoes? Kale could be used instead of the spring greens. The lentils made it a thick curry, but you could leave them out if they’re not your thing. How about chickpeas instead?
And as for the spices, I didn’t want anything that would burn my mouth off! So, I could have made it a lot hotter, but it’s entirely up to you!
I admit the photo below doesn’t look the most appetising! And the naan looks weird because I cut it in half to fit on the plate…don’t worry, I still ate the whole thing! But it tasted yummy!
All you professional chefs just ignore the plating up of this meal, haha!
I thought since we’re almost a quarter of the way through the year I would take a moment to remind myself of what I have made so far:
Knitting
-Christmas Jumper finished
-Twisted Turban Headband
-Loom knit hat
-Mustard Yellow Hat
Current WIPS: Orange jumper, Sock Yarn Shawl
Cast on: Neon Fair Isle bag, toy dog magazine freebie, loom knit scarf or cowl – I haven’t decided which it is yet!
Crochet
-Christmas leftovers Granny Square blanket [done all I can with the yarn I have, it’s been put away for awhile]
Cast on: Granny Square Shawl with yarn from unravelled jumper [about halfway finished]
Sewing
-First Dress [practice to understand construction]
-A couple of zipper bags [belated Christmas gifts for people]
-Zipper bag glasses case for my Dad
-First ever skirt
I haven’t really done any sewing since Christmas – but I have a top mostly cut out and ready to sew!
Miscellaneous
-Candle made to use up wax block
-Hand salves made to use up oils and butters
-Cross-Stitch picture…motivation through stitching!!
Mostly this year so far has been using up leftovers of previous projects and trying to finish current projects. Since my projects from last year are quite big projects, it’s been nice to have a few smaller projects to break up the monotony a little bit.
Randomly I gave myself a lockdown haircut…quite difficult to cut the back of your own hair straight, but I didn’t do too bad a job!!
I’ve also read a few books, mostly sci-fi, but I DID manage to read War and Peace, which I am chuffed about.
That would have to be my Christmas jumper which I started in September 2020. I tried my damnedest to get it finished by Christmas Day 2020, but after lots of knitting and crochet throughout the year and suddenly a massive sewing inspiration, I felt a bit knitted out and slowed down.
I started with the sleeves to shake things up a bit, then did the front and am now working on the back. I am about a third of the way done, just need to get to 39cm in length and then start shaping the armholes. It is a fairly simple stocking stitch so I don’t have to think about it, but it seems to be taking FOREVER.
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming…
The yarn is by King Cole, I think it’s called Glitz and is a DK weight acrylic yarn.
(I know it’s a dark photo…it’s always dark when I want to take pics!)
I did another 3 rows today…if I aim to get the part before the armhole shaping finished this week, then in theory the rest of it should go quicker as the rows get shorter.
Woolly Orbit 