Finally….an aran for me!
Another posting about a past project - mainly because I am too ashamed to post about my lack of progress on current projects!!! I keep getting distracted my new wool, or spotting wool in my stash that suddenly looks really appealing.
Am working like mad to complete the baby shawl for my friends as the baby will be arriving in a couple of weeks. It’s rather depressing as it seems so slow to progress and so I spend a whole evening knitting and don’t feel as though I have got anywhere. So far I’ve completed 11 repeats of the 16 row pattern and I reckon I need to do about 20 for the 120cm length.
it’s 2ply wool on 3.75mm needles with 240 stitches so it takes me about 7/8 minutes to knit one row (I timed it last night) so at that rate with 9 more repeats of 16 rows to do I have about another 19 hours of work to do….then I have to knit a border to go around the whole thing and sew it on…..I’m going to be pushing it - let’s hope the baby is late!
I also completed my second Yediburunlar sock - I’ll add a photo here later - and I really love them. I am resisting starting another sock until the shawl is complete along with some of my other WIP. As the weather is starting to get colder here now I must pick up some of my winter sweater WIP’s and get them finished.
Meanwhile, here is a completed project from a year ago -
Having knit aran jumpers for almost my entire family I decided to take time last winter to knit one for me. However I decided to go for a poncho, which was a bit of a fashion item last winter anyway and I’d always fancied one.
The poncho was knit as a big rectangle with neck shaping in one side and a roll neck knitted up before folding and sewing along one shoulder edge. The whole thing was finished off with tassles.
The aran stitches used were a diamond trellis filled with moss stitch, representing wealth, alternated with a horseshoe cable which symbolises the hoofprints of the horses used to draw the boats up above high water. In between the panels are double lines of simple twisted cable on four stitches.This was quite hard to knit, not because the stitches or the pattern were hard but simply because of the number of stitches on the needle and the growing length of the work which was knit in one piece.I love this poncho, it’s so easy to wear and I can pull it on over jeans and a jumper or my best little black dress and it looks great with both. It’s perfect for this time of year when it’s getting a little colder but not quite cold enough for a coat and during the really cold weather I wear it over a huge jumper or a coat .
This photo is me in my garden with my little boy, Simpson, he’s an ex-Cat Protection League rescue cat who has been with me for about 9 or 10 years and is the true love of my life (my hubby is well aware of this)
