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Marathon Sunday

This week I’ve been trying to fight with my inner monogamous knitter. Admitedly; she doesn’t rear her head very often. I’m flighty and indescisive by nature with my knitting and I’m definitly more of a process knitter than a product one.

Of course the things I want to knit are not the things I should be knitting.

These last few days I’ve been forcing myself to work on my Dads jumper. I have about 30 more rows before I can bind off for the body. My aim is to have that and the cuffs for the sleeves done before Saturday so I can knit them at knit and natter. Marathoning Supernatural while knitting this makes it barely tolerable!

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It looks about as boring as it is to make it!

In other news my final skein of Fyberspates arrived and I finished off the leaf edging. It used just under 20g of yarn to finish it off; but I think it was well worth it. Added bonus being I have most of a ball to make something for myself.

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Pattern: Wrapped in Leaves by Alana Dakos
Yarn: Fyberspates High Twist DK (Silk and Merino) colour – Bamboo
Mods: 5.0mm needles instead of 4.0mm

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Thoughts: I LOVE this yarn. Brown isn’t normally my usual choice; but I let my mum choose and this colour is her perfectly. She wanted something that would co-ordinate with anything in her wardrobe, but still visually interesting and I think the variegation in this yarn works well for that. I think the choice to go up one needle size helped greatly with the flow of this garment. It’s incredibly light, but soft and warm as well.

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In year of Project news I got a bit started on my Celestrium

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And past the heel and gusset decreases on Francie!

 

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I also made a very brief start on Fatty Lumpkin; the African flower pony, however I didn’t take any photographs of that.

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