Eldest daughter texts to say that she should have commissioned a knitted Snowman or Snowdog for a young niece's second birthday. Not sure that there are any patterns, I responded. Yes, there are, she replied. Some time later I discovered the pattern for the Snowdog - in a December issue of a magazine. Some more time later is found a site to download old issues. The following day I went off I search of the yarn. If I was to make this in time for the birthday I had precisely one day. The yarn was sold out at one store, out of stock on my, usually infallible, online store and not stocked at my third port of call. They did, however, have just 2 balls of the yarn in chunky as opposed to the required double knitting. I took the risk.
12 separate and fiddly pieces of knitting later the Snowdog emerged and I am delighted with the result. It did take the whole day to complete but is now in the hands of the Royal Mail to arrive in time. For a piece of knitting I am ridiculously pleased with the finished article. Not my usual preferred knitting but a little bit of fun.
Thursday 31 January 2013
Thursday 24 January 2013
Another log cabin
Home and deterred from travelling by the snow I decided to undertake the finishing details of another log cabin blanket. This one was started in October last year and its completion was delayed by running out of the final colour and my reluctance to begin the task of the 3 needle cast offs to join the squares and the heavy task of knitting the borders. My usual lack of finishing enthusiasm was exacerbated by the fact that this particular log cabin is larger than the normal size I make.
I bought the initial stock of wool in Bridgend in the colours of a throw I had made for the daughter and son in law of friends. I had liked the finished article so much that I had been loathe to give it away but hand it over I did whilst deciding to make one for myself in the same colours but in a different order. I was in no rush to finish so making additional squares to produce a larger blanket was not an issue until I ran out of purple. The younger daughter was dispatched to Bridgend to source an additional ball but they had sold out. The older daughter was then tasked with the purchase and she had to search beyond one or two stores to get the correct shade and I then had to wait a while to collect the valuable yarn. The impetus to actually embark on the completion then came to provide a distraction from a high volume project that I am working on - more of that one later and as, it being January and the sales, I had gone out, again and, again had purchased yet more yarn to make, yet another log cabin.
I have one border to complete. The colours are wonderful. It will look perfect over the sofa where I spend a lot of time knitting. I now want to finish off the finishing off so that I can embark on the new project. It might have been finished today but a trip to the cinema seemed a good idea to see Quartet. We had attempted to see this last Wednesday but had not anticipated Orange Wednesday and couldn't get in so this week waited until Thursday - much quieter and a lovely film which was followed by a quick lunch out. Now, however, I have the rest of the evening ahead to just get on with a few more rows of garter stitch - except that last night we started to watch a new boxed set that arrived a couple of weeks ago. One episode we thought but 3 later we reluctantly went to bed and there are 17 to go......
I bought the initial stock of wool in Bridgend in the colours of a throw I had made for the daughter and son in law of friends. I had liked the finished article so much that I had been loathe to give it away but hand it over I did whilst deciding to make one for myself in the same colours but in a different order. I was in no rush to finish so making additional squares to produce a larger blanket was not an issue until I ran out of purple. The younger daughter was dispatched to Bridgend to source an additional ball but they had sold out. The older daughter was then tasked with the purchase and she had to search beyond one or two stores to get the correct shade and I then had to wait a while to collect the valuable yarn. The impetus to actually embark on the completion then came to provide a distraction from a high volume project that I am working on - more of that one later and as, it being January and the sales, I had gone out, again and, again had purchased yet more yarn to make, yet another log cabin.
I have one border to complete. The colours are wonderful. It will look perfect over the sofa where I spend a lot of time knitting. I now want to finish off the finishing off so that I can embark on the new project. It might have been finished today but a trip to the cinema seemed a good idea to see Quartet. We had attempted to see this last Wednesday but had not anticipated Orange Wednesday and couldn't get in so this week waited until Thursday - much quieter and a lovely film which was followed by a quick lunch out. Now, however, I have the rest of the evening ahead to just get on with a few more rows of garter stitch - except that last night we started to watch a new boxed set that arrived a couple of weeks ago. One episode we thought but 3 later we reluctantly went to bed and there are 17 to go......
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