Damn, Knit & Blast It

I was very good Friday!

I did all my household chores so the weekend would be free for more fun things like helping a friend clear brambles from her new allotment. Yep, I’m strange - I like that kinda thing!

After a hard day of chores I thought,

“I’ll sit in the garden, watch the washing dry and knit for an hour”

My current project (I tell you about it in my next post - honest!) needs close following from the pattern- not the thing for a mongy hour knitting in the garden.

What to knit that does not require thinking and is fun and portable enough for the garden…

I have recently tidied my stash and sorted out a bag of rather unpromising, homeless scraplettes destined for the bin…

So I took these and my “bobble stash”…

to make more Smoothie hats. (See this posting for details of what they are for and how addictive they are. )

I was rather pleased with a couple of hour’s work

OK - I did say one hour sitting in the garden but you know how it gets when you’re enjoying yourself

Here’s what I made…..

Stripes…

Ancient boucle from Twillieys (I still have the ball band - sold in ounces!)

Variations on a purple and white stripey theme…

A solidish one and a holey one…

The holey one is fun and all my knitterly friends who’ve see it grab it and want to know how it’s done -here’s the “pattern”

• Cast on 28st and do 2 rows of K1, P1 rib as usual.
• Row1:(K2tog,yrn) rep to end
• Row 2 (and all even rows): Purl
• Row 3: K1, (K2tog,yrn) rep to last st, K1
• Row 4: Purl
• Repeat the above 4 rows twice more.
• Row 13: (K2tog) rep to end
• Row 14: (P2tog) rep to end
• Sew it up and apply pompom!

And some luxurious kimono ribbony ones (the pink one is Pure Silk and Ribbon !)