The blanket… finished!! and another project started
Well- I finished Natasha’s blanket last night. I immidiatly put it to good use by giving it to Natasha as she slept and she promptly curled up with it- a good sign. Today she occasionally has carried it around. I hope she’s happy with it!
I couldn’t resist so I began a new project with some lovely yarn- Peace Fleece Worsted. It is stiff but not too much so. It’s defined, easy to knit, and makes the work go quickly. I’m already 1/2 done with the back of my new Central Park Hoodie from Knitscene Fall 2006 (find it here at interweave knits shop). I’ll be photographing both soon!
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The yarn… Bella Colour by Plymouth Yarns ||
The Colour 14
The blanket is begun and hopefully finished soon- we’ll see if Natasha likes it after…
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Look up- next to “about” is Knit Gallery, a new photo gallery where I will be putting up pictures of my projects as I go along. At the moment, you can go here to get to the 2008 Projects Gallery… but as I add to this blog I’ll be making comments of the project and posting links along the way.
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Today I sat outside in the slightly cool Ensenada sunshine and taught a friend how to knit. I only know continental and her needles (bought a long time ago) were way too thin for her worsted weight wool… but she picked it up a lot faster than I ever did!!! We talked about available knitting supplies (not many) and places to buy wool (just two in Ensenada that we could think of- between the two of us). I reminded me of something… She had a pair of Irna (Or is it Imra?)needles… funny that I cannot remember their name.
My grandmother, daughter of Italian immigrants to Chile, taught me how to knit with those, the only needles I thought could exist until a few years ago. In South America I’ve never seen another knitting needle brand that is worthy of mention. Anyone who can rightfully call themselves a two-needle knitter knits with those. My friend was very suprised to find me knitting with dark wood needles (Lartern Moon ebonys). She’s never seen another type of needle before. What’s more she didn’t know about circular knitting and had never seen a circular needle. In this part of Mexico, knitting is with crochet mainly… perhaps its because of the lack of other types of needles?
Mystery Yarn
My first real project as a new knitter was a little blanket for my baby- started when I found out I was pregnant and finished about a month before she was born! Yes- it took that long… don’t ask….
My lovely girl loved the blanky that was with her in the incubator to home to everywhere else, and as these things happen, it became the blanket - the one to sleep, to play with, to comfort.
And as these things happen… it got lost. How was that allowed to happen, we don’t know. It was in the car in San Diego and when we arrived in Ensenada 1 1/2 hours later it wasn’t there or anywhere.
So far she’s ok with the blanket, a few sleepless nights but she’s ok. Still, I hate loosing that little blanket, my first knitted work in many many years, and of course the first gift to my daughter. So now I’d like to recreate, though smaller, and I didn’t keep the name of the yarn. All I have is a small ball… I’ve been combing the internet to see if I can find it but so far no joy… I’ll keep looking. This weekend I’ll visit the shop where I bought it originally and see if they have it. Wish me luck!
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