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Kaffe Fassett Exhibition

  Just a selection of some of my photographs from the show which was a lovely day out in Bath Firstly introducing Isla – She’s a Syrian Hamster who we adopted from the RSPCA in Newport 3 weeks ago. She’s incredibly pretty, like a tortoiseshell cat colour. She loves racing around in her ball and driving into people’s feet! We’ve forgotten how much we missed having a hamster. It’s comforting as well to have such a live wire in the household as the rats are slowing down. So we started off in Bath by imediatly finding Wool – a great little knitting shop. I enabled Angie, and she enabled me too! In dare not tell Rhys how much I spent, especially when I said I had enough wool the week before! This is Araucania Botany Lace, the colours in it (which have not photographed too well… I need a light tent!) remind me of the seaside. Sand, foam, spray and sea and I can’t wait to work something up. I bought 2 skeins just in case as I love large shawls.   I also picked up 3 skeins of Cumulus –

Malgven

Only a week and 3 days after finishing it am I finally getting around to blogging about it! Oops. Pattern – Malgven by Lucy Hauge (Part of the Celtic Shawls E-Book set) Yarn – Clicky Needles Lace (80% Merino 20% Cashmere) in Tangerine. 88g. Needles – 3.0mm DPNS to start and Nova Circs to complete (Increasing cable as shawl got bigger) Diameter – Just over 100cm across. Will probably expand more with a serious, wet block. I took advantage of finishing this just before we went to see the Kaffe exhibition in Bristol to get some good outdoors shots. Angie took all of the indoor ones – and I’m actually really happy with them.. even the ones on me! I hate having my photo taken. The shawl is intensely cabled. The pattern repeats 12 times around on most charts (on one it only repeats 6 times) and there can be up to 8 or 10 cable crosses on the cable rounds. The “Off” rounds still required concentration, to make sure the knits and purls were in the correct place. Am I 100% in love w