........ when Rachel sent me a link to this beautiful blog. One of the things that caught my eye was a super knitted cushion cover with cables. Now, this is when a problem arose. If I knitted something similar, was I stealing someone else's design, or was I just inspired to do my own version. I decided that as I was only knitting one for myself, and not writing a pattern to give to others, it was ok. Next problem - can I show you my version? Well, here is a peek at what I've done so far
Still on the knitting front, on Friday at patch'n'chat someone was knitting an unusual scarf. Then yesterday, when my friends arrived for Kist (my housegroup), one of them, Anne D, was knitting one of these intriguing scarves too. Well, it wasn't just me, we were all making plans to go and buy a ball of the yarn. I bought mine this morning when we were in Hawick (more later as to why we were there today instead of tomorrow)
If you hadn't seen how this yarn knits up, you would think it looks nothing special
But the yarn has a secret - you need to pull it open, to reveal a mesh
That's when I encountered a slight problem - although Anne had shown us yesterday how to knit with the yarn, by this afternoon I had forgotten. Not that I'm the only person to forget things - I'm in good company
and obvioulsy I learned something new today, which pushed the knitting method out of my brain
However, thanks to a quick google, I found a tutorial, and I was soon underway. You don't cast on in the normal way, you simply put the needle through the edge, leaving a gap of about an inch and a half each time
It's hard to show you the next stage - instead of wrapping the yarn round as normal, you leave a gap and put the needle through the edge, then use that to make the stitch
This is how it looks after two rows
On the sewing front, I got the fleece for the back of the tractor quilt - the same one that I used for the quilt that I made Stuart for Christmas
So, why were we in Hawick today instead of tomorrow ...... I am abandoning Malcolm again - this time for two days! Tomorrow morning I am heading for Falkirk to visit Stuart. Of course, you are thinking, why isn't Malcolm going with me? It's because on Friday, I am going to the spring quilt show at Ingliston. However, I don't think Malcolm minds too much, as he has made his famous lasagne (Stuart loves it) for me to take for dinner tomorrow (there was even talk of a bottle of Chianti to go with it). All I have to do tomorrow is pop it in the oven!
But don't worry that Malcolm might be going hungry - of course he made some for himself!
On my way to Falkirk, I will be making a detour to take some very special photos to share with you tomorrow ....... and I may just have to have lunch at a garden centre!