Showing posts with label old shale scarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old shale scarf. Show all posts

Knitting

26 June 2013


I have been working away on my hat this week, I made great progress whilst camping.  I am now starting to really enjoy this pattern and can put it down in the middle of a pattern repeat and work out where I got to.  I got so confident that I got to the end of a row and realised that I had failed to knit the cables, so had to unpick and knit again!  I am hoping that I have enough yarn to finish this, it is going to be a close one I am on a journey of yardage chicken yet again.

I have finished knitting the Old Shale Scarf and blocked it and it has come out a good length, I was concerned it would not be long enough but it is perfect and will get lots of wear in these cool summer days we are having.

I have joined an online book group recently through a forum that I visit.  Our first book is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.  This book has been a slow hard read, I am not going to finish it as it is really not my cup of tea at all.  For me it is a collection of short stories with, in the main, very tenuous links.  The opening chapter was really hard work, had I not been reading it to share discussion I would have given up at that point.  I have managed to read four chapters now but I have admitted defeat in the fifth.  It is over five hundred pages long, I managed just under two hundred.  I know that there are many people who have really enjoyed this book, I am not on of them!

Joining in with Tami for this weeks work in progress.