Acquisitions/Stash Management

We visited the Scottish Isles of Islay and Jura. Of course if you are on holiday you have to buy some souvenirs right!? So I bought some more colours of Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift, giving me some more options for contrast colours in my next colour-work jumper project or for a project on their own.

Knitting

Jumpers/cardigans

I finished my Fern and Feather jumper by Jennifer Steingass using some of my favourite yarn, New Lanark Aran 100% wool (non-superwash). There’s a separate Finished Object post with more details about it. It took forever to dry!

Once I’d finished that jumper I decided to amend the neckline of my Selfish Pullover (made using New Lanark Chunky) that I wasn’t wearing because the neck was too wide. I spent pretty much all day on Thursday unpicking the applied icord, the cast on edge and the ribbing, then re-knitting some stocking stitch section with decreases, new ribbed collar and then bound it off to find I couldn’t get my head through the hole!!! So I loosened the stitches, not easy to do when you’ve done the invisible sewn bind off. Is it now perfect(?), I hear you ask! Nope…it was a bit tight and scratchy. I have to laugh or I’d cry. I ripped it out AGAIN and did a twisted rib collar and it wasn’t right and was scratchy so I ripped it out AGAIN and now it’s just a rolled stocking stitch collar and I used the Elastic Bind Off from Lesley Ann Bestor’s book. I will wash the collar as that was new yarn and still a little scratchy, pretty sure I washed the rest of the jumper when I finished it earlier this year as that softer.

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Other News

We got back from Islay late on Saturday 4th and we had a lot of the Brazilian Grand Prix to catch up on and my jumper wasn’t cast off, so I skipped posting last week. We had a lovely time on Islay (and Jura) and at some point I will do a travel blog post about our trip.

It was the AGM for the Guild yesterday (Saturday) and I’ve finally been able to step down as Treasurer after doing 4 years. I’ll obviously need to do a handover with the new Treasurer but its such a relief to know that I’m going to get back more crafting time. Hopefully the handover will be pretty quick and smooth.

I must get felting some Christmas stock next week! I have nothing on my knitting needles now, nothing at all, so that should be some incentive to do some felting in the evenings instead of knitting.

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This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 13th year, but this is my 6th year participating. If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry, as you’d be very welcome to join us. (There are 53 Sundays this YOP year, it happens sometimes!).

Year 13 list.