Cardigan Finished!!!

I finally completed the cardigan on Sunday night, much to the delight of my daughter who was obviously keen to model it. The pattern was taken from the April edition of Lets Knit and was called Sundae. I only followed the basic pattern though as it called for a different yarn and had embellishments on it that would have looked odd with the crofters yarn.

Now comes the task of making my felted bag. Its taken two days to unwind the skeins of wool and make them into more user friendly balls. Too many knots and finger aching work to unravel them all!

Kerry Woollen Mills

This weekend I visited Kerry Woollen Mills. What a wonderful place full of beautiful garments and of course, WOOL!
I wanted to buy some 100% pure wool so that I can make a felted bag as all of my stash contains blends of wool with 95% being the nearest. The wool was Aran weight with a variety of natural colour ways so I bought 5 different toning skeins so that I had plenty of choice as I want to do stripes.
Hopefully if my project goes to plan I will post pictures and the pattern.
Happy Knitting!

Crofters Cardigan

Hello there!

I started knitting a cardigan for my little girl a few nights ago using Sirdar Crofter Yarn in Shetland. Its going well and I absolutely love the stripey fair isle effect the wool creates. I'm due to start the left front today but I think I'm going to get two balls of wool out and make sure I mark the pattern repeat on the yarn on both balls so that my stripes for the front of the cardigan match.

Hello!

Hello there!
This is my first blog and I would like to introduce myself.
I'm Suzie, I love knitting and I thought it would be great to share my trials and tribulations in the knitting world!
Bear with me as I'm new to this but hopefully I will have something useful to say soon, as well as life in general.

Suzie x