Adventures in Knitting and Crochet

I have finally reached the end of the Cygnet Radiant Prism Yarn. I decided to have a go at a mile a minute afghan, on the basis that 1) it would take no designing and therefore, little thought process after a busy work week and 2) I wouldn’t need a set amount of yarn to complete it. With at least 4 balls still in the bag I got going. I decided to do 150 stitches long strip with a 10 cm diameter. I figured that, if the yarn did really go on forever 150cm is a nice width and if I managed to finally run it down then it could easily be the length and would make a nice lap or cot blanket. The good thing about mile a minute strips is that they are easy and portable. At least one strip got done while sat in a very chilly playground for my daughters extended play session. In the end I managed to do 8 strips with the remaining yarn. I don’t think I did the same pattern twice for any of the end increases but they all measured the same length and matched into shape. To join the strips together I ...

This week I was back at work after the Easter break, which means limited knitting opportunities.  Certainly not impossible but harder to obtain. I have had several interminable zoom calls which a) should have been emails, b) I was really not needed at and c) were really, really, long. These mostly account for the scarf which is my only contribution to knitting this week. I love moss stitch bordered scarves. Stocking stitch alone curls so much when you knit it, that you have no feeling for how the scarf will look when done. I know some people like this mystery but I don’t. The moss stitch around the scarf keeps it flat as it’s worked and means that even after washing it won’t re-curl. This self-striping yarn does lend itself really well to stocking stitch. It has good stitch definition and the colours come out beautifully. Fortunately I still have more yarn left... like, still several balls of it left... I raised this with family members and they have harshly criticised my belief th...

Having too much yarn is a rare occurrence for me. Not in life generally, my yarn stash is a fearsome beast which I believe one day may actually become a self-sufficient lifeform. However, too much yarn for a single project. You are far more likely to find me, having finally got round to knitting with a yarn that I bought four years ago, running out half way up the final sleeve of a project and being reduced to begging for extra balls of that specific dye lot, in the most obscure corners of the internet. However, this time I have too much yarn. This yarn originates in a sale in one of the local yarn shops where the Cygnet Prism yarn was discounted. I bought a bag of the Cygnet Prism in the shade of “Radiant”. It is a beautiful yarn, incredibly soft, and goes through the different hues of reds and pinks to make whatever you knit with it look like a sunset. The yarn was consigned to my stash until I found a project to match it. Years passed. The yarn resurfaced recently for two reasons. F...