princessdeia

Yarn: Wendy Mohair – I think it is  discounted as I brought the yarn from eBay.
Pattern: Adaption of Spunmag’s Cleo Clutch.
Needles: 5mm and a cable needle.
Notes: On 94 stitches to create a wider bag. I doubled the Cable Pattern from the original pattern – omitting the final six stitches and creating a double cable in the centre. I repeated the pattern 8 times to form the front.

I then increased 10 stitches on each end to form the sides (and eventually the strap), the back is reserve stocking stitch for 116 rows (for the base and back). Placing, 10 stitches from each end on a scrap of yarn, I then worked the Cable Pattern 5 more times for the flap. The strap is created using the 10 stitches and working them until the desired length.

Cleo Clutch

Yarn: Wendy Mohair.
Pattern: Spunmag’s Cleo Clutch.
Needles: 5mm and a cable needle.
Notes: This is a really good project to practice cables – I have only done basic cables a few times before, and this project asked for more techniques. I found I needed to follow the pattern for every row.

Tags: Felted Bags, Finished Project

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I am having a very busy weekend in between a quick day trip to Le Touquet for a booze cruise/shopping trip, and a visit to Birmingham for a trade show, I have just got time to start my clean sweep for Project Spectrum.

Tools
My faithful Chibi – which holds all my needles.
A crochet hook.
A kilt pin brooch.
Various buttons.

To beginning, I am rewinding the calander to March and my Pink/Red projects. To complete, (from the bottom of the photo).

1. I have my Striped Sweater, which I cast on just in March and have slowly been knitting over the last few months.
2. Then, my Mum’s Twin Set cardigan which was started long before PS (last autumn), but I was planning on finishing it in March (I am awful I know).
3. Fast forward to June, when I was watching the World Cup and meant to be knitting a cardigan, this has been pushed to the bottom of my knitting bag, as I am so embarassed that I failed the challenge.
4. The Circular Shrug, I was unsure if this colour was more green or blue and unsure when I should be knitting it – so it was forgotten.
Also, am currently blocking my Stash Busting Bag and Cleo Clutch.

Tags: Felted Bags, Project Spectrum, Striped Sweater, Sweaters, Twin Set, World Cup KAL

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Yarn: Karabella Aurora 8 color 1547.
Pattern: The Clutch You’ll Never Give Up from One Skein and various flowers from iVillage.
Needles: 5mm circular.
Notes: I had this yarn in my stash and although it wasn’t the right gauge, I adapted the pattern. Casting on double the stitches and knitting twice as many lines on smaller needles.

The flowers where made with odd wool from my stash, the cream is a Morning Star made with Cascade 220, the Navy is Pinwheel, made in Rowanspun DK. The other flower was part of the wrapping from my One Skein Secret Pal parcel from June.

Tags: Felted Bags, Finished Project

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As I have been concentrating on OSSP, I seem to have neglected Project Spectrum, I received this lovely card for Claudia over the weekend, hidden in the mosaic is eye which has been staring back whilst I type this.

I also invested in some Double Top Cotton in brown, from Texere. Which I am going to turn into the mohair stripe sweater from Vintage Knits. I have some left over Destiny Mohair (also from Texere), from my Wavy Gravy Scarf I made last year. 

Now I have a little confession – even since I started knitting again, and invested in Stitch ‘n’ Bitch, I have thought about trying some of the techniques like kool aid dying and felting – but have never actually ventured outside of my normal knitting.

Last month, I decided to dive in and make a felted stash-busting bag and also the felted clutch from One Skein. This is the stash-busting bag – pre-felt and my Clutch is blocking at the moment, I just need to add some crocheted flowers.

Tags: Felted Bags, Mohair Striped, Project Spectrum, Sweaters

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I am doing a pretty bad job of avoiding the World Cup, the idea of meeting up with everyone in the pub to watch the game or staying in and watching crap television isn’t really a fair contest, especially when there is cold beer involved! I watched the England game in the pub on Thursday, and although my knitting was in my bag, the pub was too crowded and the idea of knitting in the smokey atmosphere did not appeal.

My stash has also been enhanced with some Cascade 220, when I started knitting again two years ago, Stitch ‘n’ Bitch became my bible and the Internet was a constant source of patterns, amazingly a large amount of pattern (especially felted patterned) called for Cascade 220 or Lamb’s Pride Bulky, and these yarns where impossible to get hold of – now Get Knitted has started selling both these yarns so I had to check them out – now all we need is got Knit Picks to export to the UK and I will be able to find out what all the fuss is about.

Luckily I am not on a yarn diet, as I brought more yarn on Friday afternoon, when I was meant to be shopping for my Secret Pals when I invested in some Louisa Harding Kashmir Aran for me – I think I will turn it into a summer scarf.

Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to knit much this weekend, as we saw the Foo Fighters in Hyde Park yesterday – undoubtedly a gig I will tell my children about, gorgeously hot day, one of the London’s most famous landmarks, 85, 000 people and members of Queen performing the encore – my only complaint was the set was too short!

Today, I have completed a Blue Square for knit-a-river.

Tags: Cascade Yarn, Felted Bags, knit a river, planning, Project Spectrum, World Cup KAL

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