Wrist warmers

I decided yesterday to try for another medal or two and Mrs Beeton was lurking on my queue and I then realised that it also was beaded so that was a bonus. Some Beads from the Firesale in Yellow Brick Road matched the purple yarn left from the socks I just finished and it sounded like I had about the right amount of it left to do them (I was almost right, two rows out actually but it's not all that noticeable!) I also had a yarn that would blend that I got in Dublin Woolen Mills.

The beading caused some serious swearing! The beads are JUST big enough so it took a bit of work to get them to go on.

With the ruffle down

with the ruffle up, like I'm wearing them right now. They're warming on my wrists. I think they will look cool ruffle side down under my grey coat.

ETA: The beads are actually have an offset centre, which made them quite good for this, I would use this style of bead again for edging on a knitted project.

Regal Brigit

These socks have been helped by the cold weather- myself and my husband travel by Motorbike (driven by him) to work but when theres frost and ice we don't go so this gives me time while travelling by bus.

I just finished these a few minutes ago!



Brigit by Monkey Toes is the pattern and it looks a lot better in real life, the cables don't look as good when they're at rest as they do when they're on. I mostly did these as cables without a cable needle but occasionally I didn't quite hit the three strands which meant I used a cable needle as it does fuzz a little when split. It is fairly easy to split the yarn but I do like how it looks. It's using Wildfoote Luxury Sock yarn in Purple Splendor

Dishcloths

Dishcloths can be fun to knit, they're also a good way of curing yourself of feeling like your knitting is precious!

These two are made using short-rows, a method of knitting where you don't knit all the way to the end so you can create shapes.

The Four-corner dishcloth

for this one you knit it in four pieces forming corners as you go and then graft it together. I'm not 100% happy with the graft but for something to do cleaning up with it's not a bad thing, if I make another few of them or ones like it I can practice it more. This is another good thing with Dishcloths, slight flaws and minor errors aren't really important to the dirt you're sweeping up or scrubbing off!

A Multidirectional Diagonal Dishcloth.

this one is a good introduction to short-row diagonals. If you're thinking about knitting a scarf with this technique this is a good practice piece!

Sunflower Shadows

Finished another one

The Sunflower Tam from Norah Gaughan's Knitting Nature: 39 Designs Inspired by Patterns in Nature (UK Amazon) Knitting Nature (US Amazon) using some of the Malabrigo Worsted in the colourway Alpine Pearl. I spotted someone else had done this in Malabrigo and had gone down a needle size so I followed suit, and I like it. I had to do a little bit of tweaking to satisfy my sense of balance at the end, I omitted one of the moments where you move the marker for the start because it wouldn't have continued with the spiral.
I also significantly shortened the i-chord to about 2" or so, I actually knitted the 5" knotted it and realised that it was going to have a too-long tail so I ripped it back to almost where the knot was and the cast off so I'm not 100% sure how long it really is. I used about 60% of the ball.




Now to get finishing my Brigit Socks, I'm 2/3 of the way there with the second sock.

Blue Embers

Found some Noro Kureyon that I had used to make a poncho and decided to knit a neckwarmer. It took less than 1.5 balls of it to make Burning Embers

Ravelompics Medal number 6

Rogue

Rogue is possibly one of the pieces that has been resting for the longest. I bought the pattern about 3 computers ago, I seem to recall printing it out on the desktop in our bedroom. I had the body of the piece sitting waiting for me to get the finger out and do the sleeves. I had decided to do it as a cardigan and without the hood as I'm not really a hood person. I inverted the

As one of the events in the Ravelmypics is to finish a WIP this seemed like a good opportunity and a great incentive to finish the damned thing. Especially as I really only had a small amount to do, the body is knit in the round and all I had to do was to knit the sleeves, sew the sleeves, sew in the hems and find a fastening for it. The hardest part was finding a fastening! Hickeys only had black frogging and while the one I found in the Dublin Woollen Mills is okay it's not absolutely what I wanted, still it's now finished and if I find something different I can use it to fix it. The collar also needs a little stitch or two to fasten them down.



Sleeve detail


Back of the collar:


I'd knit this again, possibly with a plain edging or possibly with an open cable to take buttons...

Small Shawl

The pattern is called 198 Yds of Luxury


all stretched out on the sweater dryer.

Outside on the bench outdoors


Knit with Noro Silk Garden it's a small shawl but nice. I wore it this afternoon on my way to the shops. I changed it a little along the edge so the edging matched the body of the shawl a little better than designed in the pattern.

Cowl Finish

Today had a combination of small things ending with three finished objects.

First was this cowl. It's only taken a little over 2 days to finish and it's wonderfully squishy.



It's made from a yarn called Malabrigo, in the Merino Worsted in the Nostalgia colourway visible here

It's quite long so it pools well around my neck

I used the knit 2 stitches, slip stitches back to other needle and knit the two together which produces an interesting effect along the edge which you can see here:

I'm left with about 10g from the 100g skein, which I will find a use for some day.

Unwound

what once was this



is now this



Aerial Unwind entry.

I was actually looking for the yarn to finish my Art of Knitting Scandinavian throw cause I'm missing the bag of blue yarn. which is somewhere!



Edited to add my medals!