Today is Love Yarn Day, and here is my lastest items that I have
knitted, and Oh boy did this yarn test me, Its been a pain so much so that Vernon said throw the ball away. But in the end I won the war of the ball so to speak and here they are.
These booties did not start out as booties, I saw this ball in the wool shop in Shepton Mallet. Lovely I thought, (not what I think now) I took it to Crete and started a baby's jacket, I got half way and found I did not have enough wool, so when I got home I asked Mike do you have anymore, oh he is so good, he asked the rep and he found two balls. Brilliant only when I knitted the sleeves I found the dye did not match the rest of the jacket. What is it they say match the number before your knit, well I thought I had, I should have known better how many years have I been knitting and I missed the golden rule, naughty girl. So I unpicked the whole jacket minus the sleeves and re-knitted the booties and mittens in Rhodes. Only the mittens pattern I took with me was for premature babies so they were tiny and booties for 0 to 6 months, Had another go so here they are finally one pair of mittens and booties for 0 to 6 months. They are in my Esty shop. (Please sell I am fed up with them)
I now hate this wool and I have one ball of blue, yep I bought pink and blue, I am going to put a plain colour with the blue and hopefully make a jacket for a boy, thats the plan, but you never know with this wool that really might end up in the bin if its as much a pain as the pink.
The Yarn I have been playing with is Robin Jelli Been double knitting, I think they have discontinued it, Robin is good wool but I did get really fed up with it. Usually I don't have much trouble with knitting all I can say is watch this space and I will let you know how I get on.
Hope you are having a good day.
Hugs
Margaret
