sweetgeorgia

Not slacking off

Yes, I’ve had my TKGA Master Knitter 1 instructions for about five or six months now… I’ve knit several sets of swatches, but in all different yarns and with all different needles. Last week, I decided enough dithering, enough horsing around — May will be the month I submit my stuff — just get it out of here! So starting last Thursday night, I restarted all 16 swatches. And here we are: two swatches to go.

I have swatch #15 and #16 left to do. Swatch 15 is a cable of your choice and I think my choice will be a “staghorn” cable. Swatch 16 is a two-colour swatch that demonstrates how brilliantly you can join colours — at the side and mid-row. Ooh…exciting.

Originally, I wanted to submit the perfect package so that there wouldn’t be any re-submits to do. But now I figure, I’ll just get it out and see what happens. If I have to re-knit some swatches, whatever…it’s a learning process.

Swatches and questions should be done tonight! I still have the write up the blocking report too…maybe by the end of this week.

Saltspring Island and Rebecca

Since I won’t be at Maryland this weekend (boo hoo), this is as close as I will get to seeing sheep…

A group of us spent this past weekend at my friend’s parents’ custom-built house in Saltspring Island, relaxing, hot-tubbing, watching movies and knitting… Ahhhh. How would you like to wake up seeing this every morning? Well, for about a million dollars, you can! Their dream house is actually up for sale (boo hoo too).

Of course, we did a little yarn shopping in between meals of Saltspring Island cheese, lemon bars and blackberry port:

Sunday morning, while some of the guys were off playing golf, we walked up their beachfront, tormented little crabs and tried to save already dead jellyfish.

Finally, I did finish the Rebecca Cardi after the lovely people at Weaving Works shipped me another ball of mohair:

Rebecca 29 Wrap Cardi

• Pattern: from Rebecca 29 Magazine
• Yarn Substituted: Jo Sharp Rare Comfort Mohair x 6 balls
• Needles: US 7 / 4.5 mm Addi Turbo’s
• Changes: left off the edge finishing, picked up the ties from the front edges.
• Ok, I like the cardi — I like the yarn and the finished fabric…very soft. I don’t like that it makes me look like a football player. A good cardi for those with sloping shoulders and stick-thin arms.

Oh, and all the rest of the Saltspring Island photos are here…