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March Ploddings

 

Today I managed to make the most of the little light we had to take some update pictures!

It’s been a bit of a spring clean-y day around here. I’ve got rid of a huge pile of too big for me clothes today and had a general spruce up around the living room.

I’ve also changed the URL of the blog to http://craftylittlerat.blogspot.com – previously it was craftylilrat, the little part wasn’t available in full when I registered. Maybe now I won’t keep typing in my blog address wrong!

I’m knitting away on my March Socks pretty much exclusively

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Pattern is Reverso from Knitty and the yarn is a hand dyed one called Night Jewels from my LYS Miju. From this side with the purls facing out it’s not that obvious but it striped up pretty accurately!

 

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I’ve also fallen off the cold sheep wagon a little. 18 months ago I made my nephew a blanket for his first birthday out of Natura cotton, well he now has a little sister and I wanted to do the same for her. Spotting this in my LYS I just couldn’t resist. The blue and the yellow are also present in her brothers blanket so will nicely tie the two together without being identical.

I felt the colours are still girly, but remain a bit more grown up then the pastel pink and peach traditional baby colours. I have 2 balls of each which should give a nice sized throw.

I’m planning on doing a ripple blanket (a-la Attic 24) and have given myself plenty of time as she’s only 6 weeks old! Planning on trying to work in a repeat or two a month so I don’t get bored of doing it.

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Lastly when in Chester bought some unlabelled “Italian Knitting wool” from the treasure trove that is Abkahns. It’s at least 20% wool and I have about 1,000g of it. I’m planning on knitting a jumper for me in it – probably Owls.

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