Mei Cheung, the owner had knitted the softest, most gorgeous cashmere scarf using the Feather and Fan pattern on Ravelry, you can download it for free, search for Kelly Faller, or you can find it on the front page of her blog. I just kept looking at it and feeling it, then I walked away and returned. Finally I took the plunge, and bought the most gorgeous skein of turquoise cashmere fingering.
Back home I downloaded the pattern and got cracking. I did have to wind the wool into a ball first, I don't have a ball winder (next investment perhaps?) so I did it by hand, sweating a bit in case I got it all cobbled up. Anyway it all worked out and I have actual knitting on the go.
It's a really easy pattern even for me, just 4 rows to repeat and only one has a pattern, 76 stitches of loveliness, heres a pic of my progress so far
It's a really dreary, wet day here and despite my daylight lamp the colour looks a bit more blue than it is in reality. I really have to concentrate when I knit, basically because if I get into a pickle and drop stitches I can't figure out how to recover and have to start over again - eek!!
I wanted to find a container to keep my ball of wool in so it would keep it's shape and I wouldn't be in any danger of it unravelling. So I found a solution, it's a plant pot from Ikea called Skurar.
I was going to use it for a candle but it has lovely lacy holes in it which are not jaggy and so perfect to thread the yarn through, plus it looks purty yessirree!
I do also have a couple of crochet projects on the go at the moment, so I will post about those soon.
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