What a busy week – and most of it knitting related 😀
I have a back-log (back-blog? blog-log?) of blog posts for you – I just need the time to photograph and write them up – this beats struggling to find something interesting to say about purple square no.93!
Part of my busy week has been taking TWO knitting workshops! I’ll tell you about the first one today….
On Thursday, I took the Creative Kidsilk Haze workshop at John Lewis, Bluewater with Sarah Hazell.
I had booked this nearly 6 months ago as a day out for Guilty Knitters Mel, Anita, Judie and I – we were as excited as 6 year olds going to the circus 🙂
Sarah showed us sample of lots of different techniques with KSH and gave us patterns to try them out. We were then let loose on a multicoloured heap of the lovely fluffy, kitten-belly soft yarn to see what we could come up with. It was playtime….
I was wowed by the notion of combing the colour wash technique, used in my Earthstripe wrap (That’s where you hold 2 strands of KSH together and change the colour of one of the strands to blend colours together) AND moss stitch.
I grabbed a beautiful aubergine colour and a slickly green that I would never normally choose and my favourite “Jelly” green.
I was rather thrilled with how good they looked – note to self – colours you don’t like much can look great with other colours!
Must do something with this…
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| From kidsilk haze day |
Then I played with combining Rowan Siena with KSH (I have lots of Jaeger Siena in my stash too :razz:)
Like this too!
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| From kidsilk haze day |
And then there was the less successful trial with huge needles and an eyelet pattern…
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| From kidsilk haze day |
Lastly, several of us played with the corsage pattern – it was very sweet…
Anita and Mel’s corsages…
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| From kidsilk haze day |
And my attempt!
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| From kidsilk haze day |
It was a lovely day out, playing and immersed in KSH.
Yes, I could have done a lot of that at home with my extensive stash but somehow I never quite find the time….
sounds like you had a fab day out :)… I love your corsage!
I love the colour wash and moss stitch. I may dig out my stash to hace a play with that technique. Looks like you had lots of fun.
Oh you lucky thing. there is so much beautiful wool out there I am just getting back into knitting after many yearsof not knitting. LOve your corsage.
x Tricia
Love the colourwash technique, and am reassured that you will have plenty of colours to choose from! Thank heavens for a substantial stash!
Sounds like a fab day out. I’ve never used KSH but have got a ball in my stash to use later, I’m looking forward to it.
You know, that fine lace and huge needles isn’t that bad. You need to do a bit more to see it fully. With the fuzzy yarn, you will get a very lightweight lace shawl that still holds together well enough, and is quite warm. And the knitting will go fast too! Give it another try.
I do like that corsage! Where did you get that pattern?