More FO's

Just an update with more finished items, giving up smoking is doing wonders for my knitting!

Finished these on wednesday.

Bit tight for me so hopefully be a snug fit for marl. Took less than 1 ball so maybe somebody else will be getting some too! Also back on Mangyle. I WILL FINISH THIS.!!!!!!!!

Finished!!!!!!

Swallowtail lace, finished and being blocked


And a close up of the detail



Because i used my mobile phone to take the pictures i couldn't capture the colurs, but it is STUNNING. Really it's amazing, can't wait to wear it! Finished bloxking measurements are 44" wide and 19" deep. which isn't bad going, and took me amost exactly 1 week. I'm so happy!



Started on Marl's gloves as well as got the yarn for them at bunty's when i went earlier. Using the pattern for symmetrical braided gauntlets.



Think it'll be good on her. Although have changed the pattern a bit. CO31, 10 x rib and 4 pattern repeats before thumb gusset. should fit her well. Well just thought i'd update on Swallowtail lace as sooooo excited (can you tell?)

TTFN

lace

Ok so mangyle has been sidelined again. But not for long, the wonderful Vanessa from Iknit has said she will help me with it at the club on Wednesday. Thinking i may rip it AGAIN do the brown and cream and then darn the yellow afterwards. Liking that idea and may just give me the boost i need to finish it!

In the mean time i have been working on Swallowtail lace shawl, using Knitpicks shadow oregan coast, i got this from my SP in 2007, I don't know why i never used it but it is the most amazing colours i have ever seen. Really looking forward to the sunset that i also got. I think i've discovered with this project that lace really is my thing. scarfs, shawlettes etc are complicated enough that i don't get bored and also just large enough that i don't lose interest. Saying that i have christmas presents to do so after swallowtail that i hope will be finished this afternoon/evening and mangyle (maybe) i need to get going on christmas, My auntie is having fingerless mittens in plum/grape kind of colour and maybe a hat, OH's mum a branching out or tigerseye lace scarf, mum i think another lace item is in order, but also want to make her a market bag. So we'll see on that one. They are also getting handmade bath products, hopefully soap, bathbombs and bubblebath. Have also frogged cambridge woman. This was never worn. It looked HIDEOUS on, made me look huge, majorly overweight, was too short in the body and to be honest was just wrong. So i've frogged it. May use yarn for marketbag. Hmmm.... bit of silver with it or something, could be on to something.

Anyway I'm off to my LYS to buy a couple of goodies, namely 100g aran and some blocking pins for swallowtail.

TTFN

The knitting goddess has desserted me!

Warning strong language, although justified i feel!
Both Doggy jumpers are done, just gotta wait for pictures now!!!
Next (and past) project.
Been doing mangyle for about 6 months, back was done in 2 days flat. lovely. Front, mother fucking cock sucker wank fuck colour work is doing my head in, so doing it one row at a time,this will probably mean my gauge is out (fuck it) and at the moment my intarsia and my fair isle look like a two year old has been colour then spilt drink all over it (fuck it) as in it’s not lying flat and some stiches are lose and some you can barely see (again…fuck it). But i am determined to finish, And he will wear it!!!!! Hoping it’ll wash and block out but if it doesn’t oh well. to be honest this pattern has me pulling ky hair out. I mean FFS I can knit and crochet proficiently, i can knit lace, bags, jumpers cardigans, gloves, toed socks, know 4 cast ons and 4 cast offs without having to look them up, Work stripes, chinchilla yarn, I’ve crocheted a flaming jacket, and i can’t tackle a simple fucking dick wad of a jumper. The knitting gods are being fuckwits by creating this pattern.
Here is somebody else's Finshed Mangyle

Got 7 bobbins and 2 balls on the go, doing a little twisty thing whenever i change colour (ripped twice due to holes) trying not to over pull yarn but not get really lose sticthes, even had the girls and boys in iknit london try and help.
Only pattern my OH has ever decided isn’t ‘cheap and tacky and home made looking’, even refused to wear the hat i made him (black nothing stand out) but decided to buy one instead (after i’d finished) so i will finish it, and it will kill me in the process, i shall cast off, wash block and steam, then go and sit in a corner and rock and dribble for 20 years thinking of the hell it has put me through.
somebody please tell me i’m not the only one considering knitting suicide over this and donating my whole stash with needles to a charity shop so i can never attempt it again.
Why do we do it to ourselves?

Hello

Hello all,

It's been a very long time since i blogged. So much has happened, living in west london, with my wonderful OH, working in recruitment, loving life here. There is just so much more of everything.

My yarn adventures haven't stopped, made things such as hats, bags, and most recently 2 dog sweaters for my friends new puppy, Spanky. The most adorable Jack russell terrier puppy. She still lives in Ipswich, so slightly awkward trying to gauge size, but done the best i can. Awaiting photos of spanky in them.

This is the first one from Swiss army librarian


This for the less observant isn't spanky, but a pic of the pattern. Believe this is Maci, a 3lb miniature Chihuahua. Made it in Rowan Felted tweed in a moss green kind of colour.

Also made Buster.

This one was made with Stlyecraft Life DK in the same green as mum's scarf, instead of Worsted and used 3.5mm and 4mm needles.

Next project is unknown, so any suggestions greatfully recieved.

Moving house = stress

Ok so i've got a job 150miles away in west london, combines my sales with my mechanical knowledge, which is great, i'll be back with my other half, YAY!!!!, so all is good. I've moved several times over the last three years due to various situations, this one i intend to be my last until me and he can afford a depsit (not likely), always found somewhere i like quite quickly, probably due to knowng it wasn't a permenant move, this time however, OMG, the stress, 20 flats we ooked at in 2 days. Loved one of them, but it had had a deposit put down the day before through another company and the landlord hadn't told the other agent. We were gutted, i mean it really was perfect, but we carried on, several houss on we found another place on the second day, which was ok ticked the main boxes, until leaving the flat the agent mentioned that the woman that was still in there was dss, and tey were booting her out with a bailiff, then council would have to rehouse her, yadda yadda yadda... maybe not!. which brings us to wolverton gardens, we've been messed around a bit, it's a beautiful flat, parking may be an issue, but we can cross that bridge when we get to it, it's close to 2 tube stations and lots of amenities, put an offer in last night and still haven't heard anything. I am soo stressed, i just wanna cry, i am supposed to start on the 24th november which doesn't leave us long to sort the details out. Stresssssss. well my little rant over, will keep you updated.

Hello

Right figured after debating about what to do with this for some time, i'm just gonna have a blog, about everything. Keep the name, just deviate a bit.

Having just got internet back up and running, yay, have had a few chores that i have been meaning to do but haven't got round to, like washing my gorgeous dark denim skinny jeans, which i have been putting off due to not wanting them to fade. Well i have just discovered a whole new aspect to the web. Cleaning tips. Being 24, i am not the best at cleaning dispite my best efforts. I think having a house proud mother didn't help, she'd be there to catch the crumbs from your sandwich before they hit the floor, so i never really gt a huge amount of cleaning guidance as a child, and moving out was a massive shock. So today i have been hand washing woolens so the don't lose they're shape (ok i should know this already), washing the jeans i have been putting off, have managed to get the cooker top that i have spent hours in the past slaving over to actually shine with very little effort, and making my white shirts white again (I hope, haven't quite finished yet!) and how to un-shrink something after washing it. And the lesson, cleaning really isn't as big a chore as i have made it in the past. i've been known to spend a whole day on my kitchen to get it to sparkle, today it was done in under 60 mins (ok, it was pretty nasty). So for all you who hate cleaning try looking at http://housekeeping.about.com/ I found them awesome. Never know might make my mother proud yet!!!