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Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

John's Birthday Present

Our future son-in-law turns 40 and will be needing this when they go on their honeymoon in August. Made from hand spun wool. A bit of a rush job since I was given only a few weeks notice that John didn't have any warm woollen jumpers to take away on their honeymoon. Even with lots of things still in the pipeline, I couldn't restrain from volunteering to make one for him. Its nothing fancy, just plain knitting. Just as well, I like knitting without the constraints of a pattern to follow as I hate having to work to someone else's ideas. I find it much easier to work out the needles and yarn then make up a swatch from which to get my gauge. It makes figuring out the rows and stitches a breeze instead of juggling needle sizes and tension to achieve the "correct gauge".Since the sleeves are picked up along either side from the shoulder seam, it took only a few key strokes on the calculator to work out the decreases for the sleeve length and width. With only the two side seams to sew up the jumper was finished except for a quick wash and press.
I hope you get lots of wear out of it John.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Daughters Wedding Shawl









Sue spent many hours searching for the right pattern before knitting this into our daughters wedding shawl - she is getting married in August. The pattern comes from "Knitting Delight", a german Yahoo group for lace knitters. Small whit beads were added that were not in the original pattern. These were the same beads as used in the tatted edging for her veil.

In between and for something different Sue was making a set of lace Bobbin's for a friend out of Chop Sticks.

These have been drilled at one end to allow Kat to put wire and beads on.