Cowl Time

Ages since I last posted after having good intentions to blog more! Been busy knitting some orders I got mainly Milo Vests they are such a versatile piece of clothing for layering for both boy or girl. I have lost count of how many of these I have made.

I also made a flower hat for a wee dot called Peyton her Mum kindly allowed me to post a pic of her she is so cute! Been doing a lot of over dyeing my wool and putting my new labels on it "Moments in Time" very time consuming but worth it. Realized I don't have many boy colours mostly purples! Georgia dyed these 2 yarns they turned out great she is better at pastels than me, I am too heavy handed! Bought some Merino 8 ply so am going to try dyeing some today but my dye stock is very low and do I really want to go into the shed to do that today Brr Brr!!! I love the look of the gradient dyeing and I was delighted to win a beautiful cake of Gradient hand dyed yarn. This I must say is the softest wool I have ever knitted with. White Gum Wool from Australia. They sell some here Augustbird

I also won a very useful project bag for more WIPs!

This is what I made from it. A poplar Cowl from Julia Stanfield this is another KAL I am entering. Must say I am not a fan of cowls but I brought the E book with 4 patts in and I am sure I will do the scarf, I would encourage anybody to have a go at this the pattern is so simple and you can knock one out in no time of course if it is thicker wool not 4 ply! I am going to do one in some of my hand dyed merino 4 ply watch this space! Very bleak today here in not so sunny Nelson been making lots of soup an freezing it yum! May be going to Ch Ch beginning of July for few days so will be great to catch up with the family down there and to see how the rebuild is going on! Keep warm! Janet