Read Between the Lines - Week 3

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Progress is happening but slowly due to reduced knitting time this week. The pattern is easy and enjoyable and it's fun waiting for the colour to change (which is happening strand by strand).

Weekend in London

I wasn't able to partake in this month's FNSI as we were in London for the weekend, we usually go for a few days but there was an unmissable hotel deal for the weekend so...

On the Friday, after a little traffic delay, we visited Hampton Court Palace

We didn't have time to look round the whole of the grounds and palace but what we saw was fantastic. Unusually there was very little textiles in evidence except for the tapestries purchased by Henry VIII and a door with a little Embroiderers' Guild sign.

We had dinner in a very pleasant German restaurant and the next day had our traditional London breakfast from Pret...

The next tourist attraction on our list was the Imperial War Museum.

We visited here last year and got two years through the World War 1 exhibition, so the plan was to finish it off and see a few more exhibits. Two and a half hours later we finally finished World War 1! It was a fantastic exhibition, lots of interactive displays and a broad range of topics. Then it was shops, dinner and pubs.

All round a good trip.

Read Between the Lines - Week 2

There is a craft I can do with all the kitchen work going on - knitting ( and EPP but I haven't started that project yet) (and cross stitch but that's well and truly relegated to the UFO pile)(and crochet I suppose but it doesn't seem the time to learn a new craft). Anyway...

I have managed to get quite a lot done on my RBTL shawl due to dedicating my Friday sewing time to knitting (and binge watching Scandal) and some time off work.

From this

To this

The yarn colour gradually changes strand by strand, the point at which a new coloured strand is added is known as a #Fuzzbuzz in the make-a-long (MAL) I'm part of for this shawl.

So far only one #fuzzbuzz per yarn whirl for me, but plenty of yarn to go!

Work In Progress stops Work In Progress

We're having our kitchen re-done, it's looking great but in the mean time we've had to set up a temporary kitchen. That's working well for us but maybe not so well for my sewing projects...

Our temporary kitchen was previously known (and will be again in the future) as my sewing space.

Think I'll have to dig out one of my other craft projects for a while!

Read between the lines

I'm sure I had something planned to do next on my list of knitting projects but as I've already said I fell for the persuasive powers of Facebook and decided to knit a Read Between the Lines shawl using the previously posted and totally gorgeous Scheepjes Whirls - 2000m of yarn in all.

First thing first I actually followed the instructions and did two test swatches to decide on the correct needles. Unfortunately this meant I couldn't use my beautiful metallic green circulars, but luckily the correct size is a set of rainbow wooden knitpicks.

This is about 30 rows in. I chose to go with the inside of the purple and the outside of the strawberry.

And this is after about 150 rows, taken from two angles to show the illusion effect. At least another 200 rows to go!