Here's the little autumn knit project I spoke about. Its the Norie slouchy beanie I came across wandering on Ravelry the other day (dangerous place that!).
A spur of the moment project I started it with a ball of Cleckheaton Alpaca/wool mix from the stash knowing I only had one ball and would have to find more. (I often buy a ball if it takes my fancy without any project in mind but I think I might need to start buying two at a time when I get this urge!) Luckily I tracked down the band which had come detached and found the wool online at blacksheep wool. Look what arrived in today's post!
I'm a bit haphazard with some things but I have a system that I'm pretty good at maintaining when it comes to wool labels - when I take the band off I tie a small length of the wool around the band and so I have a record of what ply, colour, dye batch, manufacturer it is. Do you do this? I often wonder how other people keep track.
This is my first time knitting from a lace chart and I've had to undo and reknit it again and again it seems. The first time I knit the lace band I didn't do my research and knitted from the top left corner of the chart down. I couldn't work out why it didn't have the nice lines in it like the pictures on Ravelry until I researched and found it turns out you knit from the bottom right up! But I bet you knew that!
Its much better the second time round, though I still made little mistakes and had to go back and forth which is frustrating. I have two more lace bands to go and I'm going to try to concentrate a bit closer for those!
Today's links for my creative space doesn't seem to be up just yet, but there's always lots to look at at ourcreativespaces.blogspot.com.
Clever sticks indeed!
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to steal your trick with the yarn bands as well. What a fantastic idea. All my old bits of yarn end up in a box and will one day be made into a stripey blanket. Until now, referring back to my Ravelry page has been my method of checking their details. :)
It's looking fantastic! You sound very organised, I really need to start taking notes as I make things, I say this every time..
ReplyDeleteThat is lovely! And what a great idea for keeping track of your yarn. I am horrible at that. I tell myself that I'll remember the yarn even if the band is lost or discarded. Who am I kidding?
ReplyDeleteThat is such a great idea about tying a piece of wool to the label... very clever!
ReplyDeleteRavelry is very dangerous... I'm going over there right now!! :)
I staple a piece of wool to each band, but only after I start using the wool so my method isn't much use if the bands become detached before I start anything. Clearly, my method needs a bit of refinement.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to file that bit of information away in my brain about the knitting pattern as I had no idea. Hopefully with a better method than the wool bands.
That yarn and project look so beautiful that I am finding it very hard to sit here in front of the computer and not run off and start digging into my stash! I am between knitting projects and feel bereft.
ReplyDeleteI don't keep a record of ANY of my yarns and I like your idea.