I have started lace knitting again. I have secured myself some lovely silk/cashmere cobweb weight lace yarn (Cecilia) from Posh Yarn next week. Lovely not quite solid orangy red, a colour way called Sweet. And I have cast on for the Garden Party shawl, and there is a fantastic knitalong on the Posh Yarn group on Ravelry. I didn't have any yarn in the stash that would have been suitable so I had to wait for the next sale day, and then wait for it to arrive, and then wind it, so it was yesterday before I got to cast on,
Today was a pre-arranged day out with my Husband. I snuck the knitting in the car, and we headed for Torridon, because for once the forecast was best in the west. We were going to walk up a little hill and get some photos of Liathach because it was looking all pretty and covered in snow.
But we were too lazy so we went bouldering instead.....
Husband looking heroic - and me trying very hard.
Look at that gurn!
And then, because Husband was having a nap in the sun, I snuck my knitting out of the bag and managed a good few repeats of the rose pattern which makes up the first part of the shawl.
It was a lovely day for al-fresco knitting, though I am worried about us turning native - we spend the whole day saying how warm it was and how lovely the sun was. We were even sitting round in t-shirts for part of the day. It was 6 C.
2 comments:
sounds like a wonderful day. I too sneak my knitting into the car everytime we go out, you never know when youre going to get a minute to knit up some memories. my husband is a napper too so I often get some time in the sun myself!
love the idea of extreme knitting! do you end up with little scraps of the landscape embedded in your knitting? Have been browsing the poshyarns site (how beautiful!) and drooling over some of the stuff. I've never done lace knitting - do you find that one skein is enough to finish a shawl?
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