Milo Triangled

My first ever venture into the frightening world of fairisling and it's turned out so well!

Milo is such a brilliant pattern. I loved knitting this up over the Easter break.

Matilda has to grow into it - it's a little on the big side.

The wool is glorious Rowan's. 

Ravelled here.

I can write up a tute on how to work the triangle pattern if anyone's interested. 

Let me know!

I'm weaved out

Weaved in all the ends. I do really, really hate weaving in ends.

I am loving this now it's finished. Based on the Super Easy Baby Blanket. Knitted in superwash Merino (very soft) from Morris&Sons. The colours may be crazy. But I like it a bit crazy.

This week I am hiding.

I am hiding behind my latest knitting project. This is a superwash Merino blanket for our little baby. Based on the idea of the super simple baby blanket, but I decided to mix the stripes up a bit and I made some pretty bold colour choices to. It's just knit back and forth so it's a simple and quite meditative project!
PS The reason I am hiding is because the rest of the house looks like this:

Yes, moving house is a wonderful experience.

Stupid Cowl.

Here's the bobbled cowl in all its finished bobbly glory. Sadly it is of an annoying size. I can't wrap it around my neck twice, and it is a bit too wide to offer snug winter comfort. I'm sure this is because I didn't really go by the wool recommendations in the pattern, and because I am a lose knitter and didn't do a swatch. I must applaud myself for taking such good preparatory measures with my knitting to make sure it turns out right.

I have never knitted a sample swatch in my life. Shame, shame, shame on me! If I am a fan of anything, it would have to be cutting corners. Even if it means producing more fails than any whale in the ocean ever could.

I suppose I could find other creative uses for the cowl.

A belly warmer?

Leaf Scarf

I've wanted to make a scarf consisting of little knitted leaves for ages. I've hunted around the net for various patterns and combined a couple and constructed my own, which lets you knit the leaves in varying degrees of size, so that you end up with a scarf made of smaller, medium and large leaves. You can also add different colours and textures, if you like! Yay!

Here are some pictures from the work in progress. The pattern is below!

Pattern for Little Leaf Scarf

I used acrylic and bamboo mohair and size 6 needles, but really - use anything! I don't believe in needle sizes - what's closest to the couch is usually the best size. At least in my book.

Abbreviations:

P= Purl

K= Knit

YO = Yarn Over

P2SSO= check here for a tutorial on how to do a P2SS0

Cast on 3 Stitches.

*P3

K1, YO, K1, YO, K1

P5

K2, YO, K1, YO, K2

P7

K3, YO, K1, YO, K3

P9

K9 - this row begins the top part of the leaf.

P9

K3, S2, K1, P2SSO, K3

P7

K2, S2, K1, P2SSO, K2

P5

K1, S2, K1, P2SSO, K1

P3

K3

repeat from *

If you wish to make larger leaves, instead of beginning to decrease where the pattern says 'this row begins the top part of the leaf', you just continue to increase according to pattern. So you keep knitting the stitches at the beginning and end of each row, and increase by 2 in each row by doing two Yarn Overs as the pattern prescribes. Then, when you're at the desired width, you start decreasing according to pattern. So, for example, if you increased to K10, YO, K1, YO, K10, you will decrease by doing K10, S2, K1, P2SSO, K10.

Leafy!