More Knitting Yarn

I haven’t done much knitting this month – hardly any at all in fact – but I have acquired some more yarn.  I say acquired because I didn’t buy it all -  I did have some of it for Christmas.

My sister bought me this Rowan Felted Tweed DK yarn to use when I get back to my WW 1 Memorial Quilt project – and my mother bought me some more Debbie Bliss yarn to use to make another shawl.

On the first weekend of the month I went to Oxford for the branch meeting of the Knitting & Crochet Guild.  It was the last one we are holding at St Giles' Church.  Next time we are meeting in the newly refurbished library. 

Oxford Yarn Store has a sale on and it would be silly not to take the opportunity to buy some more yarn.  Actually I didn’t buy much.  I bought some orange Rowan Felted Tweed and this ball of Louisa Harding Pittura – which is 75% wool and 25% viscose.  It is called Kandinsky.  I assume that is the shade – although it also says 606.

I have tried several times to take a photo of it that looks like the actual colour.  It is red and orange but also grey and green which doesn’t come over in the photos.  It looks blue and it isn’t blue at all.  There is 400 metres of yarn – so hopefully it is enough for a shawlette.

I am still knitting the little pink cardigan and will hopefully be able to show you a photo of it next week, but one of my bosses is pregnant and I thought it would be nice to knit her baby a little coat.  I usually knit little coats for babies.  With this idea in mind I bought this yarn in Banbury Sewing Centre.

It is Hayfield Double Knitting with wool – it is quite soft and is machine washable which is the most important thing.  We know the baby is a boy – so I have chosen this blue.  I have been looking through my patterns trying to decide which one to use.   

Knit the Sky Scarf

Yesterday I knitted the last 2 rows of my “Knit the Sky Scarf” based on the idea in Lea Redmond’s book “Knit the Sky”.  I have been knitting 2 rows every day since the 1 January 2017.  If I was away from home – I looked at the sky where I was and noted the colour.  I then did the knitting when I returned home.   I used red to divide the scarf into months.

This is October.  It contains a day when the sky was sort of brown due to Saharan sand.  Most months are very similar – the sky was either light grey or pale blue.  My friend said she expected the scarf to have grey ends and be blue in the middle but it is not like that.  In 2017 the weather was not terrible – there were only a couple of stormy days, and not lovely – there were only a couple of days when the sky was bright blue and cloudless – most days were grey or had watery sunshine. 

I knitted the colour of the sky at midday – I noticed that if I had knitted it earlier or later – the scarf would have been quite different.

The scarf is not finished – I need to sew in the ends and tidy the edges.  I think I may add some kind of edge so that it isn’t so ragged.  Happy New Year!