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Rotational – knitting round and round

06 Sun Nov 2016

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baby, clothing, dress, family, Germany, stripes, yarn

When our daughter shared a photo of our granddaughter pulling herself up to a standing position I just knew I had to knit her a little dress. We were a bit surprised to see her doing it already as she was six-and-a-half months old at the time. In the picture she had on a little dress and you could see frilly nappy peeping out below. Very cute!

After a bit of virtual consultation (sending Ravelry links via WhatsApp gives you a decent-sized photo in the message with the link below) we decided on Rotational in grey. Younger Soknitsome Daughter has a fondness for black and grey and likes grey clothes for Soknitsome Granddaughter, too. grey striped baby dressI knitted the dress in dark and very pale grey stripes. The pattern was easy to follow although I must have miscounted somewhere before joining the back and front as I had to add two stitches to get the slip-stitch colour change row to work out properly.

The yarn is Australian Superfine Merino from Cleckheaton. I bought it at a yarn-tasting hosted by the Knitters’ Guild NSW.  Since it’s a superwash yarn,  I was good and knitted and washed quite a large tension square. I then went down a needle size for the dress because I was also aiming for a garment that wouldn’t look too huge on a slim nine-month old baby (this is more a dress for the winter months). The dress actually works well as a tunic later, too so I did knit towards a 12-month size for length as our granddaughter is not short.

You can imagine my alarm when on giving the dress a bath, I could feel it relaxing beneath my fingers! Fortunately, after being laid out flat to dry, it shrank back to the expected dimensions. Mr Soknitsome got to visit them during his business trip to Germany and promptly sent pictures. Although little Soknitsome Granddaughter did pull herself up to stand while he was there, it was never while wearing the dress!

baby girl in grey striped dress

baby girl in grey striped dress

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Knitting for Others – the final projects of 2013

31 Tue Dec 2013

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Christmas, family, friends, gift, knitting, loop, Ravelry, Rowan, shawls, socks

There wasn’t much Christmas knitting done here at all: just a new pair of socks for each of my daughters.

Pair of wine red textured socks

A touch of class

Pair of purple-grey socks

Pinot Noir

However, I did make a couple of loops for other presents: one for my mother and one for a very good knitting friend. I adapted a classic pattern, Cheryl Niamath’s Wisp (of which there are 4795 projects on Ravelry to date!). I used fine silk and mohair blends including Rowan’s Kidsilk Haze Glamour, which is strung with sequins.

Pale blue lace cowl

Heaven

Teal lace cowl

Looped

The most challenging project was the Auf Wiedersehen shawl I made for a friend who has now returned to the US. As well as being part of the same international community (with a knitting group) she was my neighbour and we sometimes got together just to knit and chat. It was lovely and I miss her.

This shawl is Judy Marples’ Vigneto Shawl and I loved knitting it. It’s slightly asymmetrical but very straightforward to knit. You can vary the proportions of vines to leaves. The leaf part really comes into its own once the shawl is blocked.

blue lace asymmetrical shawl

Auf Wiedersehen

Wishing everyone all the best for 2014!

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Beyond repair

05 Tue Nov 2013

Posted by soknitsome in Uncategorized

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family, friends, repair, shawls, student

Thankfully I’m not talking about a beautiful lace shawl that’s been attacked by moths but the sad demise of a mug  I ‘inherited’ during my final student days cough! cough! years ago! It’s been in use 4 or 5 days a week since then and had a lot of what we in my childhood family called ‘sentalmental’ value

broken coffee mugbroken coffee mug

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