princessdeia

May 24th 2005
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Whilst looking at Florence today, I realised, I had no idea why I was knitting it I would never wear it – as nice as it is in the magazine – it is not me. So I began the awful task of frogging it – it took ages to do the Fair Isle border and I was left with small lengths of different coloured wool.

No sooner had Florence been frogged than Spring Fling had been cast on.

May 17th 2005
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I was planning on swatching Florence last night, I had to practice the Fair Isle border first and then the actual lace pattern. Normally, I use tubular cast-on with K1, P1 rib, but as this pattern needs to cast on in one colour and then do the rib in the next, I thought I would experiment a little. I cast on half the number of stitches in an odd colour – then did the first two rows on the tubular in the dark blue and then finished the tubular in the lighter blue and finished off the rib light blue. Instead of swatching, I ended up knitting the whole sleeve.

The lace pattern is pretty easy – however, the pattern is just a graph – no written instructions – so I had to write them out myself… I’m not very good at following graphs other than for colour-work.

May 16th 2005
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All of a sudden I have loads of Summer Knit Projects.
After finishing my sisters Beaded Bolero, I have been asked by my Mum and Dad to knit them both something in Cotton – it’s a good job I love this wool.

My summer list is now…

• Florence from Rowan Magazine 35.
• Cotton Jumper for Dad, I’m thinking Marco also from Rowan Magazine 35 – but I’m not sure about the strips.
• Cotton Cardigan for Mum – I think this will be a simple crew neck – she just needs to pick a colour.
• I still would really love to make Alice, but I think it will be Christmas by the time I have finished all them.

I finally signed up for Secret Pal 5 – I guess I should keep updating my journal so my pal can find out what I like.