Travelling Bag

Morning,

The bag in all it's glory. 

I've picked out about 8 balls or so that are out of view. Going to have to decide to whittle them down, or just bite the bullet and put in 8 balls of my own in there. The minimum weight is 2.5g per ball, so that there's enough to get a square from. There are several that are heavier though, so I may siphon off 2.5g and leave the ball in there for someone else to enjoy. 

xx

Late Shift 'Magic'

Hiya, you okay?

Managed to knock out 5 or 6 squares yesterday. The good thing about being on lates! Was up until about 4am watching United 93, and then the bonus documentary on the DVD.

Off to Watford tonight until Sunday morning, might be able to do a couple on the train. Always feel a bit odd knitting on the tube in case I get stopped!

xx

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First Square in a While

I've been slacking :-) back on lates next week though, so I'll probably get loads done. How's your creation coming along? xx

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Mam's Socks

Morning,

I promised to have these finished this weekend before I left, so just adding a few more rounds of ribbing and then casting off.

xx

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Knitting with Guinness

Aaaaah :-)

Haven't been knitting many squares in the last week or so due to travelling to Watford, working then travelling to the Cotswolds and Swansea. Nevertheless, I'm making the most of sitting in the pub with Dad and Dat!

xx

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Leah - A Tutorial! Adding ready made squares to your blanket

Ok so here's the square I made today somewhere where it wasn't suitable to take the whole blanket. It's sat next to the "hole" it will fill soon. So step one - check your colours :)


Step 2: on the side of the single suare you'll have the edge you need to sew in, Seeing as this is the non slipped stitch edge you need to work with the ribbed edge you have. Go through both the ribs with your needle.

Step 3: Line up your square to the edge it needs to be sewed onto. The green is already part of the existing blanket, had I not pre-knitted the square the is th e edge I would be using to cast on my next square. Push the needle through the slipped stitches (both)




This is how it looks after a few stitches. Tried to find slightly contrasting colours so that you'd see the stitch but that it wouldn't show up too much on the blanket. The thread i'm using is slightly lighter purple (more obvious on the green)

This is how the back looks after sewing it all the way.





And the front..



ok now the other edge. So orange is the original blanket and purple is the one I need to join, you can see the slipped stitches clearly on the orange (The V's)




Sew across both:



Back view:


Front view:



Whole view (front):


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Leah: Quick "Blanket Status" catch up

Well, as you know my sock blanket project began a few weeks ago with a trip to a friends house who convinced me to have a go at knitting. I'd been inspired to try by you and my mam had taught me in the past so I thought I'd give it a go. Armed with the instructions, a few mini balls of sock yarn and two dpns I had a little go and made:




My very first square! As you see there are mistakes and the "ridge" is on both sides but I didn't care, I had begun! Few days later I had achieved:




This!! A mini blanket! My squares were defo getting better and I had just learnt how to knit straight onto the blanket instead of sewing the squares in. As I had only been given a few small balls of yarn I was running out of variety but luckily one or two had long colour repeats and so I could get away with a few extra squares from the same yarns that looked different.

Then something awful happened - I started looking into buying my own sock yarn - DISASTER!! I'm now officially hated by my bank account! While waiting for my new purchases to arrive I started reading up a bit more on this blanket and realised I'd gone about it the wrong way, I should have started with the bottom of it and worked up and so I decided to add a chain out to the left to make the foundation of it:






I pretty much paused with the blanket while I made a kindle cover for myself (excuse the safety pin holding up my dropped stitch):



But then dearest Oliver decided that he loved the kindle and stole it from me! Instead of buying him his own for his upcoming birthday I decided that he could have mine until we go on holiday sometime and that I'd make him his own manly Kindle cover. Here it is nearly finished:




As soon as I finish it (4 triangles, weave in the ends inside, sew zip on) then it will be full steam ahead on my blanket. I have done a few bits such as bulk out the right hand side and added a few lighter colours in, this is how it looks at the moment:




Dumb taking a pic on a dark background but I swore I'd blog before bed and it's nearly half midnight :s!!!

Anyway, here's the 17mini skeins I've siphoned off for you so far Sara dearest:




Top down:
2x KG
6x colinette jitterbug
1x drachenwolle
Rest are randoms from bigger balls from eBay/forum!

Stash pics tomorrow :) Nos da xxx