It’s finally finished!

I’ve not been doing very much knitting recently because I’ve been concentrating on writing a book. It’s called How to Feel Great, Find Love and Get Promoted: 50 Ways to Boost Your Self-Esteem.

At the moment it’s only available as a digitally downloaded book but I’m hoping to have a hard copy (paperback) available before too much longer - I’m awaiting the rest of the illustrations before I get it printed.

If you want to find out more do check out How To Feel Great…

Another good time was had by all last week at the last Knit and Knatter meeting.

I’d managed to make a chocolate truffle cake which was greatly appreciated. See what you miss by not being there!
Everyone’s projects seem to be coming on very well with Angela sewing up squares to make a blanket and Linda showing us several little girl’s cardigans she’d made recently.

My (big girl’s) cardigan is coming along nicely - I’ve done the back and one front. Next week I’m spending the day with my mother so I’ll get a chance to do a lot more to it.

Meanwhile the baking is also going well - I’ve been asked to make biscuits as wedding favours for my son’s wedding in October, so I’ll have to practise on the group next time.

Look forward to seeing anyone who can make it.

We had a very lively group on Monday with another new member and several existing members swelling the numbers.

Linda deals in antique buttons and brought along a collection for us all to admire (and some to purchase).

The cake was delicious - I can say that, I was too late home from work so it came from a local shop that sells home baking.

The next meeting is scheduled for Monday 20th August, from 7.30pm at my house. If you want to come along drop me an email and I’ll give you directions.

I went away on holiday a couple of weeks ago and took my patchwork knitting with me. We’re having a bit of a wet summer here and we were holidaying in England so I got plenty of time to knit!

The ribbing was a challenge - the pieces were knitted first, in stripes joined together with garter stitch rows, then the ribbing was added afterwards. I started out doing a double slip stitch rib with a yellow thread peeking through. The end result was far too thick and heavy for the rest of the garment so I unpicked that! Then I tried doing the slip stitch rib but only in single thickness. That didn’t look right either, so I unpicked that!

Finally I just pulled it all together with a simple, 2 x 2 rib in one colour.

The next project is much simpler - a jacket with a textured pattern just made with knits and purls, no cables this time!

Last night we lost the blog! It’s unrecoverable, so I’m going to have to start again…