In the Making...

I finally got around to using my yarn that I picked up at the Big Coffee Morning yarn swap at A Good Yarn . Nicsknots  brought this gorgeous Easy Knits skein to swap and I was lucky enough for my ticket to be drawn first. The pattern is Rubbish Mojitos by Woolly Wormhead . I was very impressed with the pattern for the Mystery KAL this year and thought I'd try another. I didn't realise the crown had such beautiful swirls on it before I started. So that was a lovely surprise. The yarn ended up make spirals for the main body of the hat, which I thought was cool. Though being mainly purl stitch it hides it a bit. For some reason I decided that I was going to knit the hat inside out; so I was mainly using knit stitches instead of purling. Not that I have any particular objection to purling. I think it was more an exercise to see if I could work out how to reverse the knitting. I read the instructions from the end of the round and worked out what would be worked ...

The Bluefaced Weekend at Mickle Trafford was fantastic. Lots of lovely knitters and lots and lots of scrummy yarn; even with just a few stalls I found myself bamboozled with choice yet again.  Bought waaay too much but boy was it fun. I bought 5 skeins just from Posh yarn Catherine - Colourway - Sent to Coventry - Heavy Laceweight - 100% Organic Merino Olivia Lace - Orphan - 100% Mulberry Silk Megan - Orphan - Sock Weight - 100% Superwash BFL 2 Skeins Gretchen 2ply - House On The Mountain - 55% superwash BFL, 45% silk. Provisionally I'm thinking of making an Oregon Coast Cardigan Now the rest of the yarn! Babylonglegs Radiance Sock - 100% Pure Wool - to make a Marin And two lots from easyknits ; I could have bought lots from here. The colours are just so bright and saturated! Right up my street. Finally settled on just these two. Deeply Wicked - Electric Dreams - 75% Superwash Merino, 25% Nylon  ...