UFOs

yes i am the queen of the unfinished objects right now. two posts below is the back of the wrap and i have not proceeded to the front yet, partly because the pattern is frightening and secondly because there are two small things i want to get finished before i go to italy (9 sleeps and counting).

so here is the baby jacket for erin's little girl due in august whose name is lola. cute!!


and here is the start of the second waratah sock (not the first, as i have already knitted the first - see comments of post below for further confusion!). i have two pictures one with flash:

one without:


the colours in the second are closer to the real colours. it looks different again outside.

meanwhile the weekend was spent again out in a paddock chasing sheep, although this time at least miss possum did most of the chasing and she did it very well. we have had quite a mental breakthough and possum gets now that she works sheep for me, not for her own pleasure, but that these two things are not mutally exclusive. it feels different to have a dog who is not fighting me all the time and perhaps when we trial again i may do a little better!! jo and dave came herding as well and stayed here for the weekend- they both have kelpies, kobe worked out in the paddock this time and did great and annie is only 7 months old so is new to the whole thing but shows a great deal of promise. gittim annie! i dont have pix, i suspect they will be posted shortly on the 4ks.

we had a great weekend tho, i cooked an awesome roast chook on friday night followed by the cheesecake, which i am pleased to report was sweet and slightly lemony and almost perfect - it needs a smaller tin. and the company was pretty good too :)

back to the paper-writing
k xx

wrap in progress part one

ok, i finished the back of the wrap last night and here are my feeble attempts at taking pictures of it. im not blocking it yet, its just pinned out so you can see, and my camera angle is weird because i am trying not to cast a shadow over it, so it looks crooked but its not really:



there are a few things i learnt along the way - ssk is harder than it looks and im not sure if ive done it right so one side of my shaping is a little dodgy. measuring a 10 inch armhole is hard - from what point to where? - but i did try and make it as close to that as suggested, which means the whole thing is about half an inch shorter than required but that will block out. it has some funny little thing going on in the shoulder with the wrap and turn short rows - what the? - but i think its come up ok. mostly i am happy with the way the fabric is turning out - lovely and smooth and drapey (yes its a word spider cos i said so) - and there is no sign of fluffiness or pilling and the colour is perfect.

and now that i have contracted startitis from certain people, and dont feel comfortable unless i have at least three things OTN at once, i am going to cast on the second waratah sock before i start the rather more challenging front of the wrap.

i was hoping to get to a sunday snb this month as i thought it was next sunday (the 22nd) but it turns out its this sunday (the 15th) and i am down at michelago playing with sheep again. oh well.

today i am cleaning the house and making a baked cheese cake because jo and dave are staying here for the weekend (they like to play with sheep as well), so hopefully i remember to put the sugar in this one. will post a pic if it turns out.

later
k xx