Stashalong week 4

Not an awful lot this week. I have been concentrating on other things, namely finishing my clapotis.



I have used 2 totally different coloured skiens one is more purply and the other is more blue, you can just tell the difference if you look closely at the image, IRL it is so much more obvious.

I have also this weekend gone taken part in a bank holiday challenge, it was to knit a full sized garment in the time between friday evening an monday evening. And this was as far as I got.



And this is what I am making




Its out of june last years simply knitting, I think I have probably cast on the wrong size but I will see the project through eventually.

Anf finally, the results of last weeks stashalong. I think I have lost my flair a little after such a good start, the number of items I've made has dwindled, but at the same time I have been making much larger items.

Results of stashalong week 3

Not much knitting this week, have been making lots of jewellery so knitting has fallen by the wayside for much of the week.

The results for this week, the first 4 are made from brightdyes yarn, the strippy one is made from 3 discountinued colours of jaeger matchmaker merino and the final soaker is made from british breeds yarns. The last 2 still need the ends sewing in.







I have alsomade very little progress on this months socks



I have also started a clapotis, have finished one skien of yarn. Have increased it up to 59 stitches and plan to use 2 skiens of hip knits silk, though think after seeing just the one knitted up I don't think it will be long enough. The shade is Blueberry.




And then to my beads, also an a quest to use some of my stuff up.





3 bookmarks using tibetian silver butterflies and faceted plastic beads on silver plate bookmark and findings.





2 memory wire bracelets, one made with plastic dice, the other with an array of different glass beads.






A pile of stitchmarkers, mobile phone charms and earings, all made with glass bead and silver platee. The earings are lampwork beads.








A pile of charm bracelets using moon hearts, tibetain silver beads and some dice again on silver plate.

And last but not least some necklaces made with lion tail, crimps some plastic faceted beads and lampwork beads. I love the result even though they haven't come out as I had first thought they would.

Stashalong week 2

And so it continues.

This week I have knitted 10 items for stock using exsisting stash. I filled a carrier bag up last sunday and worked my way through it leaving just 200g in the bottom of it. Not bad going considering, I have cheated somewhat with my items, they are mainly small ones which generally take a much shorter time but add significantly to the item number count ;0)

Firstly 1 newborn item


And 1 small item, I have made this using wool I dyed ages ago using food colouring


Then 4 medium sized items, 2 are using wool I dyed myself using food colouring, the 2 tone pink one and the green, yellow and purple one are made using yarn that Chrissy dyed.








2 Large - the green one is yarn dyed by chrissy and the pink one I did myself using kemtex acid dye.




An finally one XL item, made using the same green yarn as the one above, this picture is closer to the actual shade of the yarn



All of these items are listed up in my shop. Next week I am aiming to work a simular amount of items. This last two weeks I have emptied one crisp box sized carton and a carrier bag of wool. I have since emptyied another larger box between the carrier and the box freeing it up to store the kids toys in, which is what the original purpose of the box was. The kids where made up to finally have it.

August's socks

Don't post for weeks then 3 in 2 days!

Here are my august socks



Made using the harry potter pattern from the charmed knits book, I am quite enjoying the pattern despite the rib, this is around 3-4 days progress doing just an hour or so a day, a bit like a reward after finishing something for my shop.

I didn't much like the heal, short row hell, it was really annoying me to start plus I loeth short rows. But in the end I quite like it, the heal knitted up so much quicker and I think it looks a lot neater than the pick up stitches version.

The start of a stashalong

And a very good start if I don't say so myself.

The reason for my stashalong is that I need to clear some of the yarns that I have, I really think 2 rather large under bed storage boxes, 8 plastic crates, 3 crisp box sized cardboard boxes and numerous carrier bags are just a little excessive! I also need to raise funds for new stock lines and yarns in my shop.

So this week, I have made many items, just for a change I seem to have my knitting mojo in full swing. It's been so refreshing the last 4-5 days or so to enjoy knitting rather than knitting for knittings sake.

So here are my finished items



I finished this item this week, but started last week, an LTK flirty skirty but made at my buyers request with a ruffle instead of the lace detail


A large pair of longies made to my own pattern, using BFL hand dyed by Chrissy at brightdyes



A pair of shorts made to my own pattern and using Chrissy's yarn



A pair of shorts again made to my own pattern and using Chrissy's yarn.






An finally 6 pairs of LTK slippers made using Chrissy's BFL in a range of sizes from newborn up to approx 4 years.

And next week I hope I can make the same amount if not a little more, this little lot has used up around 800grams of my stash. Only another 9.something kilos to go.