Ravelry

Hurrah! Just logged into my email and unexpectedly had received my invitation to join Ravelry! I had checked recently and there were still loads of people ahead of me in the queue waiting to join, so I thought it would be a good while yet before they got around to inviting me, but I guess they have just had a spurt of invitations sent out. Anyway, I am listed as cosmicknits on there if anyone wants to look me up, although at the moment I haven't updated anything. Not sure how long it will take me. We made the "big move" on Thursday, so are currently on day 3 of our new life, and are all really jetlagged. Everything is getting put on the back burner for a while as we have so much to sort out, and I am permanently exhausted! Darned jetlag!

My first package from Spunky Electric arrived today (which did manage to perk me up somewhat!). Wowee it is beautiful! My camera is broken so no pics at the mo' I am afraid, but hopefully I will get a new one within a few days and will post more info with pics then. As a teaser, the colourway is "Aspen"...

The problem with late night knitting!

I have a 2 year old son, which means that my knitting time is limited to evenings once he is in bed. Which is fine, except that when I am tired, I am not fully concentrating. I finished the Baby Sweater a week ago, but as soon as I was done I realised I had made a boo-boo. The project doesn't have any seams, so the sleeves are knit as a rectangle, then stitches are picked up and bound off using the 3-needle bind-off method. Due to my being tired and obviously not at all with it, I bound the sleeves off differently (One WS facing, the other RS facing)! So now I need to unpick one sleeve and redo the bind off. Shouldn't take too long, but haven't had the inclination to do it yet!

In the meantime I moved on to the booties. I designed some to match the jacket, and am quite pleased (one done, one to go). Will post pics of the finished objects soon. I am also going to do a matching hat. The whole project has been a fun knit, would definitely do it again.

Have been pretty busy this week with the impending move (10 days and counting!), and on top of that "little guy" and myself have been unwell. So I am still busy on the heel of sock 1 of my Summer of Lace socks. Think it will be like this for the next few weeks, but I am trying to snatch any knitting time I can get!

Another one hits the frog pond...

So, after getting not quite halfway on my Ms. Marigold vest, I thought it was maybe looking a bit small. So I decided to check my tension. Despite knitting a swatch, I had a whole extra stitch per inch then needed! So my vest was going to be tight fitting, probably corset like in a restricted breathing kind of way. Sigh. So I ripped the whole thing out. Isn't that just the most crushing thing...to look at something that you have been working on for a while, and then RIPPPPPPPP.

As I say, I had knitted a swatch, however it was late at night, and my fingers were just itching to get cast-on, so I guess it is my own fault for being too eager. I substituted yarn to Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo, which is knitting up really nice, and very affordable! Is 80% Bamboo, 20% Wool mix, and cost me £2.15 per 50g ball, which I think is a snip. It is my first time knitting with bamboo, and I am happy with the look. I would definitely use it again. I was also thinking although it has 20% wool, it might be nice and cool for desert-wear in Phoenix. I am starting to think more of vests, cotton sweaters etc, and not so much wool sweaters, scarves and mittens. Not much call for them in the desert!

I am not going to immediately cast Ms. Marigold back on, am still a bit gutted to be honest... Plus I should soon receive Augusts Rockin Sock Club kit, as well as the first kit from Hipknits Project Club, which is a really pretty shawl. We get to pick our own colours for Hipknits, and the lovely Kerrie then dyes them before shipping with the pattern. For this one I chose colourway "Eat your Greens". Can't wait to see it. If only the postman could hurry it along...