Pink Rain

The Rainy Day Sweater is coming along nice.
I got a new iron and have blocked all the pieces.
The new Tefal iron is a dream. It made the weekly ironing a little more enjoyable. I would not normally use the term enjoyable in the same sentence as ironing.
The blocking of pure cotton pieces was very easy.
Both sleeves have the interesting cable edging and I am half way on the body.
I have knitted this sweater in size 1-2 years. I think it would just about fit Miss T, she is 22 1/2 half month old.
I am keeping it for a friend who is expecting a girl in August.
I would have knit a bigger size but I only had five balls of yarn.
There are other lovely pattern in the book.
I got the book with Knitting magazine as a free gift.

Iron bites the dust

After nine long years of excellent service, my trusty Swiss iron has given up on producing steam. The whole point of this iron is the steam generator.
We will go over the weekend and look at a new iron.
I think that the pump has gone, it won't suck in water anymore.
This week the whole ironing was done with just heat, I kept hoping it would fix itself. I gave up with the linen shirt.
My knitting was the next casualty.
I have started on the Rainy Day Sweater from the Louisa Harding 'Miss Bea's Rainy Day' booklet.
I would need to block the body before I start on the bottom border. I am using Filatura di crosa 'baby lovely' yarn.
There is a similar Rowan adult pattern I always wanted to knit, I think this child's version is better.

Talking about the child, sometimes we put her hair in little pony tails. Funny what happens to her hair when we take out the hair bands, her hair stays up.
Baby got big hair.

Twist and Shout

So sorry for not blogging an entire month.
I totally lost any will to knit. Silly really, after all I only had to knit about one sleeve.
We had a very warm April and knitting with Merino Cashmere yarn seemed pointless.
About a week ago we went back to normal spring weather.
Yesterday Miss T and I went to our local yarn store and we bought one button.
I have been wearing Twist and Shout all day today.


Now to the knitty gritty:
Pattern, Twist and Shout from Knitty.com issue Fall 2008.
I used Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran. I had a cone worth about 19 balls of yarn. I don't know how much I used up, but there seems to be about a quarter left.
The pattern is well written and there are a few erratas, but they are all incorporated directly in the pattern online. The only thing that got to me was the difference between US and English knitting jargon.
I did start something else yesterday. A jumper for our little Miss T. Something that knits up quickly whilst I think what I should knit myself for Summer.