Creative Chaos

Creative Chaos

Saturday 3 October 2015

What's on the needles?







My knitting mojo is back. The last 3 weeks it was so manic and stupid crazy at school (and frustrating), that I'd go home and collapse (and attempt to write a 3000 word essay with no brain left), and do pretty much not much!
I can't have the school holidays without knitting and since I have started studying for the exam in 5 weeks, I knit. A lot.
The 2nd Ramona cardigan is still on the needles - I got on the plane to Christchurch to start knitting the sleeves - ah - no - no scissors to cut the cotton which had the sleeve stitches on. Finished a sleeve while at conference (I knit anywhere and had people admiring my knitting and knitted things I had on!). Then jumped on the plane to fly home and and duh - realized same predicament over next sleeve. It has not been touched since Christchurch.
The Falling Water scarf gets perhaps 10 rows knitted on it a day (the blue alpaca wool from Peru) - it is not the sort of thing you can knit while memorizing stuff.
So I have started a Everyday Wrap (which Zelana are doing a knit-a-long with). It is mindless easy knitting and I will be delighted if I end up with a wrap like the picture shows. The Zelana wool I am using is their new sock wool - Cozi - it is 58% merino; 22% nylon; 15% bushtail possum down and 5% alpaca and is truly divine to knit.
The impulse buy this week is my gorgeous Klippan wool blanket (100% New Zealand wool too!). Klippan is the Swedish town where one of my penfriends lives and I visited there in 1997. I so wish i had known about the Klippan wool factory (and linen and all sort of other amazing divine things!). It is so beautiful. I'm lucky in that Tina sends me a couple of surprise packages a couple of times a year with Klippan products and usually IKEA things too. I'm so lucky!

Hope school hols are going well for kiwis and Aussies - I've a kid whose body clock has flipped the totally wrong way.... yikes! One poor thing has been at school for exam tutorials - year 11-13 at his school get little school hols at this time of the year. Families are totally banned from going away.

10 comments:

  1. Hi Kimberley, thanks for joining in with my link party! Your knitting is beautiful. I especially love your wrap, that is such a gorgeous color.

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  2. I so admire your stitching skill, Kimberley! I have joined Jennifer's Link Party, too, and am aiming to compete a simple merino wool blanket. I am cheering on your efforts :)

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  3. Both of your knitting projects are so complimentary with each other, the colours are lovely! I've joined in with the winter project along so I'm looking forward to seeing how your knitting grows :-)

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  4. Hello from southern California. Your knitting projects look so lovely and such fun knits. I love the yarn colors you are using. Right now I'm knitting a sweater out of cotton yarn and it's not such a fun project. I hope you week is off to a great start :)

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  5. Lovely! I just started knitting and love seeing beautiful projects!
    ali
    www.simplysummerstreet.wordpress.com

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  6. What a gorgeous colour you've chosen for your wrap. You're working on some lovely projects and I'm very envious of your wool blanket, that's beautiful. I've joined in with jennifer's link party too.

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  7. Wow, that's a lot of knitting! I do like your colour choices. We have a Klippan sofa (from Ikea), I didn't know there was a town after which the sofa is named. I have joined the linkup, too. Happy knitting and good luck for your studying (note to self: must read past posts to find out what you are studying for, I am new here).

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  8. That is a lot of knitting, particularly the wrap a beautiful colour yarn. I have popped over from Jennifer's winter link up.

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  9. Gorgeous projects on the go! I love that cabled scarf. I love stitching cables, but I've never made a scarf covered in them. I see another project on my horizon!!

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  10. lot of work on your needles, but I am looking forward to see all your projects done!
    Have a great day.
    Miss

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