December Wool

Well here I am writing blog number two and I'm loving writing ideas that come to me to write down for you all to read and I hope you all like reading it.

Couple of weeks ago while out with Hubby we dropped into a pub for lunch and there in the corner was a lady knitting. She was not alone but with a partner and he was reading his paper and was a lovely sight all they needed was a roaring fire and it was the perfect setting and got me thinking how many of us knit in a public place?  Seeing people knit in a public place should happen more often and as I'm writing this I'm trying to work out where my first attempt out and about should be? I always go to my knitting group every  Tuesday morning but that really doesn't count as public will have to go to local coffee shop and get my needles out. So come on lovely knitters lets get out there and do it in public.

Talking about knitting group we had our "wool swap" yesterday organised by Fiona Drake of Catch-e-Monkey you can find her on facebook. Wool swap is where our group go through our stash and find all those unloved balls of wool you thought you where going to use but didn't, we hand them in and we do a swap. If only one person puts their hand up for the wool then its yours if more than one of you then you throw a dice highest number wins.



 

My wool winnings so many ideas in here just need time to knit them.

 



I seem to hate this time of year and have decided that I am a summer person, but as I'm writing this I think of Sunday morning when Hubby and I went for a lovely walk along the canal the weather was just right and we loved it . By the way Hubby is now clean shaven and back to the face I fell in love with.

This photo looks odd but its me being artistic and looking at the reflection in the water. We went to get some holly for our lounge as I was putting the Christmas decorations up, I know early but I love planning where it is all going to go and love when the blinds get closed and all the twinkling lights and candles are lit, it means Christmas is coming and even though I am  51years of age I don't care I do still get so excited there I've said it is out there I'm like a little kid counting the days down and how many sleeps I hope that feeling never leaves me and oh yes the whole house gets decorated, including the bathroom

Knitting as usual is taking over my life so many things to do and not enough time to get my needles clicking away, but I have done my beret for www.cityknits.co.uk 
The wool was Katia Oxford in a lovely blue it is made of 50% wool, 45% acrylic and 5% viscose. It is 50grs in weight and has 125 mts or 137 yds in length. It was so soft to knit and would use again in fact already am woops more knitting.

 

I knitted the beret in a day and was so lovely to knit as it changes colour as you knit you only need one ball for the beret so works out quite affordable. I have been wearing it have had a few lovely comments. The following pictures shows it in different stages of its life.

 

This one is the ribbing one I haven't done before and really enjoyed it and will be using it again on other projects. You can also see my gorgeous yarn holder it sits on the floor next to me and my two lovely cats are fascinated by it and would love to play with the wool it holds but know Mum won't let them.

Know we are up to the decreases and as you can see the colour as changed a lot and looks amazing.

 

This one all knitted and ready to wear, the colour changes are just wonderful and the pattern so easy to do and one I didn't need to keep looking at it to see where I was.

 



 

A close up of pattern and wool looks even better. I used my ever faithful Knit Pro Interchangeable Circular Symfonie needles, I love these and use them for everything I knit and would recommend these to everybody so much so my lovely Mum has started to buy them and loves them too.

Well this blog comes to an end, have a dog to walk slimming world to go too knitting Christmas pressies to finish and another knitting group to go to later on tonight so busy busy.

 

Buster out walking. 

Happy knitting in knitting land x x