New Starts

Having completed the hand stitching on the hexy flower quilt, I was at a bit of a loss as to what to work on at our patchwork days.  I don’t take my machine, as it is too much hassle.

After a bit of a think, last week, I decided it was time to make the kit that we received at Scrub Stitchin’ last year, as I would like to take the finished project for show and tell in April.

It was all packaged up so nicely that it nearly seemed to be a shame to open it up….but of course I did.

I had everything prepped in time to take along and went to start stitching the pouch and really didn’t like the way my stitches were looking.  I think I want to add some Weaveline interfacing to the back to give it just a little bit of body.  

Now what?

I decided to duck home (fortunately, I only live five minutes away, if that) and get my pretty wool and start to knit the scarf that I would like to have ready to wear once the weather cools down, and let’s face it, that time will be here before we know it.  I had bought the skein of sock wool from the beautiful little wool shop in Rylstone, when we were on our way to Queensland last July.  I have a fabric scarf in similar colours and I wanted to have a warm one.  I had planned to start back then, but those hexies had me hooked.

Well, I just couldn’t get going on it at patchwork.  I dropped stitches, didn’t seem to be able to count and generally made a balls up of it.  That was really frustrating, as I have knitted the pattern twice before, rather successfully.  When I got home I ripped it all out and started again the following day.  You know what?  It really helps if you read the pattern properly.  Who’d have thought.

I have being enjoying knitting a few rows most nights, except when it has been far too hot and sticky and then took it along to my patchwork day on Wednesday this week and got loads done.

I’m now well over halfway there.  You just keep increasing on each row at one end of the scarf and decrease every second row on the other end, with the simple pattern row every few rows.  You keep going until you run out of wool. 

I’m loving the way it is looking and hope to have it completed fairly soon.

Meanwhile, the Scrub Stitchin’ project is waiting patiently for me to get back to it.  That will be the next job after the scarf is finished.

Oh, totally unrelated, but I must report that I have emptied three thread spools this month.