Two new knits – and resistance
Tuesday 24th May 2011
I’ve finished two new knits, both show-casing this Saturday at Lazy Luxury Lace. First up is Bubble Pop Electric. This is a comforter length neck wrap, using Kidsilk Haze and Pure Wool 4 Ply, knitted together and then finished with both used singly. It’s fun to knit (if by fun you mean purling 5 stitches together now and again…no, it really is fun, watching the bubbles pop up!)
Here is a closer view of the bubbly surface:
And here is Storm:
This is knitted with two shades of Kidsilk Haze, which in places I held together. It’s also beaded. It’s not out of focus by the way but the triple impact of colour-blending, stitch mixing and the palette I have used, tricks the eye and casts a misty pall over the garment.
Neither is terribly hard, both are interesting enough to pique your imagination but not over-tax the knitting enjoyment. And, as a bonus, each can be knitted fairly fast as they are both on 5mm needles.
If you’re not coming to Lazy Lace, but think you like these designs, they will be kits, here (I promise!), in June.
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In other news I am doing something I usually don’t bother with. Resisting something. I find resistance very dull, it annoys me, and I suspect ardent resisters of missing out on the good fun. I mean, I would resist the urge to shove someone into a freezer cabinet in Sainsbury’s, even if they were intensely irritating with their 7 strong phalanx of kids, two trolleys, and inability to speak, only to bellow across the pizza selections…ahem. Yes, I hate supermarkets, it was a bad day. Sorry. Where was I? Ah yes, I’d resist that sort of base (if well-founded) impulse. But as rule, if I fancy something and it does no real harm, well, I tend to give in.
I am not a hair-shirt sort of girl. That is not to say I have madly extravagant tastes, I don’t. But I like to enjoy life and the good things in it. Resistance is fine in moderation, after that, it ought to be resisted.
Now I am very tempted by 2 front first circle tickets to see Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker at Sadlers Wells in December. But – it’s £120 just for the tickets! Yikes. That’s a lot of knitting. Plus, train fares, somewhere to stay. But oh! the temptation is killing me! Check back later this week to see if I a) survive; b) give in; c) hold out but become low-level grumpy as a result.
You and M can always stay with me and get the train in from here – one stop from St Pancras and Loop is close by.
I love the double row of beading, they’re both lovely. Hurry up with the kits !
mmmm, love the bubbles – ought to be called champers!
Thanks Kay! we’re due a visit anyway! It’s Dec to early Jan and I think we’d go for a Friday or Saturday in first part Dec…? x
Love the knits, the ballet would be fantastic too. Hope you can get there.