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Uh Oh!

 

When I ordered the yarn for Wrapped in Leaves I was a little bit short. I imagined being able to make it smaller and the thought that “Well you have to round up to a full ball” crossed my mind. This week I’ve not been able to put this shawl down and I made it onto the leaf edging on Monday. I still had 50g left and at that point I did start to doubt myself.

Well last night I got to here.

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Uh oh! I had two options. Rip back the whole edging, rip back the shawl until I had enough yarn to finish or buy a new ball at £14.50. I bought the new ball. This is a Christmas present and ripping it back that far would just have made it far too small.

So while I wait I’m working on some things I totally neglected this week.

I have about 5cm to go before dividing for the arms on Dad’s Cardigan. I’d show a picture but it’s no more exciting than the last one you saw. Miles of stocking stitch.

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I found this cute ribbon in a knitting shop in town and had to have it. My aim is to sew one on the back of Morgan’s blanket this afternoon.

The eyes also arrived for the elephant! I’m very glad I ordered a 12mm pair as the 10’s looked far too small. This means I’m going to have to go back and re-order for the Pony but I’d rather have the elephant look right now and order again.

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The details as always are available on my Ravelry page and I must say I’m very pleased with it. I think when I make another I will use proper toy pellets, this has marbles and they’re just too big. As Nellie is decorative it doesn’t matter too much. I was surprised by how little yarn this used; less than 1 ball (50g) of each of the colours and pretty much 1 ball (50g) of the main taupe used to connect them all.

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My only other comment is that weaving in; or at least knotting the ends is mandatory and then when I do Barry’s Pony I’m going to start following the pattern from the beginning. This time I made the motifs first and I think if I start by joining together then I’ll get a better colour balance all around.

Today I’ve got round to doing some house keeping. I know a lot of people follow blogs with Blog Lovin after the demise of Google Reader. At the moment I’m using Feedly, but I also wanted to claim my blog on Blog Lovin for future reference.
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Bonus pic – Cute!Maggie My baby rat (she’s the same age as the other girls but she looooves cuddles and her mammy!)

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You mean your yarn swift isn’t a play thing?

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