Parterre

Summer has arrived here in London. If you are watching Wimbledon you may have noticed how hot it has gotten here.
We had a Christening to go to on Sunday and I wanted to wear my newly finished Parterre.
Well, it was way to hot to think about any type of knitwear.
A great little summer knit. I am sure I will get a lot of wear out of it, even though not in the near future. I knit the entire project without the help of a cable needle. Yeah!

Even better is the fact that there are only two very small balls of yarn left over.
Parterre has used 7 balls of Rowan Yarn Classic Pima Cotton DK yarn.
The pattern can be found in the Reminiscence book.
I knit this in a colour called Pampas to go with my new Boden maxi dress. I love that dress.

The Rainy Day Sweater

The Rainy Day Sweater is finished. I took me about one month.
The pattern is from Louisa Harding 'Miss Bea's Rainy Day'.
I used five balls of Filatura di Crosa 'Lovely Baby' yarn in colour 'Hot Pink'. A lovely pure cotton yarn, the colour has a few natural specks. If you look closely you can spot one on the back. The yarn is very splitty, but a good substitute for the Rowan Handknit Cotton. Knitting the cable on the edge was a challenge it took me a while to get used to and I had to use a cable needle. Maybe also due to the splitty nature of the yarn.
I knitted size 1-2 years fro my now 23 month old daughter. I thought it was going to be on the small size and had it down as a present for a friends baby due in August.
But Miss T did not want to take the sweater off. The sleeves are still a little long. I think I will have to knit something else in a smaller size for my friends baby.

Perry the cat had to join us for the photos. Miss T calls him Hurry or Harry.
She loves her small boxes of raisins and the colour pink. With the weather we have been having this week, Rainy Day is the perfect sweater to have.

Not blogging but still knitting

We have had a busy two weeks. My Mother has visited us from Switzerland. She has had a great time with fantastic weather.
She has gone back to Switzerland and the weather has gone back to rainy and cold.
The Rainy Day Sweater is almost finished. I will have to sit and and knit the neck border and sew the sleeves in and all the other little finishing touches. The bottom border needs some gentle blocking it looks uneven at the moment. I hope I can improve it.
My Mother has brought me my winnings.
I have a competition over at
knit kit. I came closest at judging the length of a ball of yarn.
I won a kit for a beret. I once knit a similar beret from knit kit for my Miss T. It is still to big for her. It must be true that babies with Asian heritage have smaller heads. It may also explain her dairy allergy.

I have put my St. Moritz on the back burner until September. It is to warm to wear it now. I am not to keen on the Swiss darning part either.
I felt in the mood for some summer knitting. I love wearing May, I knitted two years ago. I wanted something similar in a cotton yarn. I found the perfect pattern from Rowan Classic Yarn. It is called Parterre and is from the new Reminiscence book. I am using the RYC Pima Cotton yarn in pampas.