As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been knitting frantically for the past week or so. It began with trying to use up my rather large stash of acrylic which has been doing nothing more than sitting in a box in my room. It’s now progressed into my longest knitting phase ever!

This particular creation I am going to call “The Blackberry Scarf”. Simply because the stitch (moss stitch for anyone interested) reminds me of a blackberry. The colour on this photo (or the other one) isn’t quite accurate because it’s more purple, but the short days now make it virtually impossible to photograph anything by natural light, so this is the best I can do. Anyway, it just needs finishing off and then it will become a birthday present for a friend. The only problem seems to be the length because I don’t seem to have enough yarn left… oops! But it seems to be long enough to be worn in the fashion shown, so I’m hoping she won’t mind.

This my chums, is a little experiment. I should say that I’m not the most experienced knitter because I have a habit of going through knitting phases, whereby I knit like crazy for a week then go a few months doing nothing, ergo I do not progress more than knit & purl. Anyway, on this latest knitting bug, I decided I’d try out knitting in the round. On double pointed needles no less. To go even further in my experiment, I decided I’d try stranded knitting, which is a technique used to create 2 colour patterns. I’m trying out a houndstooth pattern! Clearly, this is still a WIP, so I’ll update you as to how it goes at a later time.

Sadly, whilst my knitting bug has rendered me venturing into other areas, the jumper I started many moons ago is untouched in the knitting bag. I blame it on my needles being too short, so I’ll have to hunt down some longer ones before I can continue. The tip I was told at the SnB group last time I went was to use a circular needle, so I may get one of those instead. I’ll show you progress on that pattern at a later date. It is in fact fairly straightforward once you get to grips with it.

Anyway, those are my knitting antics. Knitters out there, what projects have you been working on? And for those who don’t know how to knit, I recommend trying it out! You may not like it, but you’ll never know until you try!

Over and out.