Squishie

Well, I finished my first squishie,

which actually turned out to be not that tricky once I got into it. I've now moved on to 5 dp needles for the tea cosy i'm restarting and that is seeming trickier to start! I'm hoping it will become more manageable after a few rows.

I'm debating whether to get some interchangeable needles, and which ones. I've seen some nice rainbow ones on ebay!

Double pointed needles

Now that I can purl properly, I decided to redo the fruity tea cosy I'd started. So, I undid it all and then tried to start again and after 3 tries, realised my brain had decided to forget how to join the round after the first row. After flinging the knitting across the room, then apologising for stupid behaviour... (really?!?!) I looked on youtube and realised my problem; I'd tried to continue in the wrong direction... I don't know, it seemed like the right thing at the time!

So, on with the double pointed needles - I'm off to make a squishy ("I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy.")

Knitting and Stitching Show

I went to the knitting and stitching show the other weekend (at Alexandra Palace). Good place to go if you want to feel young! Interestingly most of the customers were female (obviously) but many of the exhibitors were male - it's a competitive market tis knitting!

One thing I loved was Extreme Knitting - where they use huge needles to make larger items such as rugs. I bought myself some 12mm needles (easy tiger) and have started making a scarf in basket weave stitch (now I can purl properly - didn't know till last week I'd been doing a kind of twisted knit stitch instead!) with 8 strands of wool at the same time - good for using up oddments of yarn but I'm running out of the wool quite quickly!

Knitted photos

 

The first...

So this is the first post of my knitting blog. I want to get people knitting; it's such a relaxing, satisfying creative hobby that is so versatile and available to all *cue applause :-)*

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