Ok, so I'm a few days late on my update, but it lines up nicely with WIP Wednesday over at Tami's Amis! I've been working fairly steadily on a couple of YoP projects since I last posted, although in a surprise turn of events, not the ones I had planned on working on!
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| Apologies for the dodgy iPhone pic! |
I screwed up the courage and sewed my tortoise shell together. Never again, I have promised myself, will I be making anything that requires this much sewing up. This pattern is totally worth it though, because the end result is so cute! Currently missing all its limbs and head though, so no FO quite yet.
I tried to drag these socks out of hibernation the other night, but my ninth DPN appears to have gone walkies! I know I have knit on these recently, so I'm assuming the needle has fallen into the sofa and I'll have to go looking for it at some point, as I don't have a tenth I can use.
Dragonfly Wings has reached the lace section, which means I'm done with all the casting on oodles of stitches at the start of the rows. I finished that part quite late on Saturday night, and haven't been focused enough to start the lace yet (I'm also worried I miscounted somewhere along the way, and will find myself out on the stitch count).
All of which left me in a bit of a quandry the other day. I wanted to knit, but didn't want complicated. I would have loved to do more on my socks, but couldn't find the needle. Nothing for it but to cast on something new!
Say hello to Wingspan! Oodles of lovely garter stitch and short rows, with gorgeous changing colour yarn. Perfect for when I don't really want to have to concentrate!
What a vivid, dragon green that is. Must be Zauberball! That is a cute turtle shell.
ReplyDeleteOh darn, you had to start a new project :)
ReplyDeleteOooooh I was planning to maybe use my Zauberball to make wingspan, looking forward to seeing it! And I feel for you with the sewing up of so many tiny pieces, but the tortoise is looking great!
ReplyDeleteActually, it's not Zauberball! It's Jawoll Magic Degrade, which is very similar.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, that turtle's back is so cute, can't wait to see the finished thing. Ugg to all the sewing. Hope you find your needle as the socks looks good. Are you knitting these two at a time on dpns ? Hope your stitch count is right on your dragonfly wings, I'm sure it is though and is that a zauberball your using on the wingspan ? Love the range of colours in it.
ReplyDeleteOooh, lots of lovely projects. I love the Dragonfly Wings shawl and is on my to-do list. Deb x
ReplyDeleteI love the colours on your Wingspan. Looking forward to seeing the finished turtle :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes everything just works against you (or for you?) and you have no choice but to start a new project :) All of your projects look lovely in their own way!
ReplyDeleteThere is noting like a perfectly simple pattern paired with awesome yarn, that wingspan will be beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGood luck finding your DPN
Whatever it is I love the greens in it!! The tortoise is looking great and even though I hate sewing I would be happy to do it if it looked as good as that :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, all those awesome WIPs! I just finished my Dragonfly Wings- it's such a fun knit, though I wasn't a huge fan of the casting on rows. xxx
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