Friday, October 31, 2008
More Scenery
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Great Day for Knitting
Friday, October 24, 2008
Edinburgh and Ysolda!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
They Have Trees On The Mainland!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Off To The Mainland
Yesterday was a day of sunshine interspersed with downpours and the odd rainbow!
Mucking around with self-portrairts for my 365 thingy on flickr (haven't been too consistent with a photo a day I have to say)!
I'm not much of a boat person so I have been watching the forecast and hoping for relatively calm seas.......at least for the 12 hours that I'll be sailing! Outlook is good and thankfully our boat is a bit bigger and comfier than the fishing vessel pictured here!
Old mill buildings nearby.
Oh yeah.. the Fair Isle knitting is coming along but there are rather a few steps backwards before I go forwards again!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
"Lots of Lovely Practice"
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Peerie Post
Despite feeling a little overwhelmed as I watched folks strap on their knitting belts and proceed to cast on in a way I've never seen before I did manage to accomplish a peerie amount of colour work! I also tried knitting with 3 dpn's (two to hold sts and the 3rd as the working needle). This seemed to be common place with the other knitters.....have any of you done it this way before?
I also attempted holding both colours in my right-hand....not very successfully...will need to practice that one! Despite being pretty slow I was pretty happy with my tension.
Now I need to decide what I want my fair-isle project to be and gather my supplies for next week.....I'll also take along my belt and finally get some experience using it.....I'm sure to be a true Shetland knitter by the end of the 10 weeks!
Oh....and the teacher taught my older brother and sister knitting 30 years ago in the wee school here in Sandness. All these years later my two kids are also getting knitting lessons in the very same room as their aunt and uncle!
Not such a peerie post after all!