WIP 1

So here is my most likely to finish WIP. Sirdar 9150. Love the colours of the printed pattern – not. All that yellow and orange… I didn’t use Juicy as I could only find it in orange (or is it mango?) in my local wool shops, so I used Calypso. Although the pattern states it as a suitable yarn the quantities are only given for Juicy (which is dead helpful) so I got my maths head out of secure storage, found out the yardage for the respective yarns and calculated that I needed 5 balls. We are nearing completion and I haven’t started the fifth ball yet so if anyone has any ideas for 50g cotton dk feel free to let me know! I have been too slow to return it to the shop. Also I knit pretty tight and I had to use bigger needles than the pattern stated so it will be a miracle if it turns out methinks. And if I manage to shift a couple of pounds it will be too big – that would be sad.

I know I should take the photos against a white background in perfect, perfect land but I like the contract with the blue rug and I vacuumed especially ;-) I like green. It is yet to be seen how excessive my use of green is when all put in one online space. Maybe it will make me control the green yarn freak in me. But it goes with the leaf motif in the yoke so well…..




The yoke there is actually the last piece and I think I only need to do a couple more patterns to finish it then I have the dreaded making up to do. I hate that bit. It’s also when you find that it doesn’t fit/is a bizarre shape/the neck hole is too small to fit your head through and all those other things that go wrong with knitting.

I would have finished it a while ago but had to wait to get decent light to do the photos because I’ve been wanting to blog it for ages. And I had to squeeze a holiday and a family visit in between. While I was waiting for some daylight I started another project too, but I’ll save that for later. That’s quite long enough for one post.