Tangelled Angel

Well its the end of September, and the nights are coming in earlier and earlier, the days are starting off dark, and foggy, of recent times, and the chill is definately in the air in the evenings.

What a good time to work on the Tangled Yoke Cardigan

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I’ve been working on this now for about 2weeks, had a few hiccoups at the start, got through the wide ribbing, onto the stocking stitch part and I’m now almost finished the increases.

The pattern is cast on from the bottom up and it includes the 2 front sections and the back section all in one go, with faux seams for the sides. 

It was a bit daunting at first casting on 200 plus stitches, especially when I realised I had made mistakes halfway through a row (on more than one occasion gulp) and having to frog back to fix it, but its a comforting knit at this stage and I’m looking forward to the challenge of the cabling at the top.

I’m trying to keep at it so that I will actually have a FO within the next few weeks, but Saturday I only got about 5 rows knit, and that included frogging 3/4 way back on one as I forgot to do my increases…I knew when I started the row that it was an increase row but somehow I was at the end of the row and there had been no increases made….ribbit. However, I made up for it yesterday and at point of tying this, I’m actually about 6 rows away from putting the body aside in order to start on the sleeves. Yay!

I know also that I won’t have enough yarn for the whole thing so I may have to make a plea for help on Ravelry….or else get yarn from a different dye lot.
Anyone have this dye lot?  SH143,  LOT13L4

Who likes hats?

I do.

I love hats.  I’m one of those lucky people that hats generally suit. I have millions of hats in my winter wardrobe and bought 2 hats on honeymoon, one of which was lost at the electric picnic but replaced by my darling boy, who wore it for the rest of the EP! It suited him, what can I say?

ANYway, I’m rambling.

Heres a hat:

and heres another hat:

What, you mean they look a bit strange?
Strange in what way?

Oh that kind of strange.
Thats because, they are not destined for heads of humans, or even dolls, or aliens…they are destined for use on the top of a little bottle….

The Irish Big Knit is something thats happening in Ireland for the very first time this year and us Irish knitters are determined to make put our stamp of approval to the campaign.

Here’s some official blurb about it:

“The Big Knit is a campaign where Innocent, Topaz and the charity Age Action join forces to help older people in Ireland keep warm during the cold winter months. We will put little woolly hats on our smoothie bottles in Topaz stores from 5th November 2008, and for every hat-wearing smoothie sold, innocent and Topaz give €1 to Age Action.

The money raised from The Big Knit will go towards providing support to older people, including care and repair programmes and advice on how to keep houses warm during the winter.
 
We’ve set ourselves a big target of 20,000 little woolly hats as this means we’ll raise a brilliant €20,000 for Age Action and we’d love your help getting us to that target”

One of the great things about Ravelry is that it helps us all connect with each other. No sooner had I been contacted by Juliet from Big Knit to ask for our help, Stitchlily had already been on to it and had set up the Irish big knit 2008 group. I contacted Stephanie to see if she would be up for organising a Knit-Out in Dun Laoighre, to find that she had also been on the ball and had contacted Innocent herself!

So, there will be many little needles clacking away making little hats between now and then, and if you are around on Sunday the 12th of October between 12 and 4 in The Peoples Park, Dun Laoighre, come along and join us for a little Knit-Out. 
It should be good fun, lots of chat, lots of knitting, lots of hats, hey, bring your own hat!

If you are a beginner knitter or a non knitter who would like a bit of a push start into knitting, come along also, it will be an ideal opportunity to learn, and to practice. There will be spare wool, and spare needles.

And maybe cake.

It looks like Im going backwards on the items Ive made my nephew!

(sorry about the photos, they were taken at night)

This is the second one I made him and it was gifted at the baby shower, along with a pair of matching booties and a non-matching hat.

The hat will be shown at a later stage, all I can say at the moment is that I saw it on him yesterday and my sister told me that its the only one thats stayed on his head! She says when he moves his head from side to side, the others fall off immediately, but this one stays on him!! Yayy!

Cardigan

Pattern: Mossy Jacket

Yarn: Jaegar Baby Merino (no link, sorry)
Yarn Edges: Rowan Calmer
Needles: 5 & 5.5mm

Sizes: 0-6 months

Booties
(I didnt do the crochet flower)

Pattern: Drops knitted booties with crochet flower

Yarn: Jaegar Baby Merino
Crocheted edge: Rowan Calmer
Needles: ?5mm, can’t remember

The booties took a long time to make, for items so small. Im not sure that I’d use the pattern again, because of that, and because also R says that they dont stay on his feet….but I suppose they are still a little big for him at the moment which may have a part to play in that.