I intended to take pictures of the blankets today, but I forgot until it was too late. Tomorrow.
I did a little knitting on my Cleckheaton sweater, and I bought the pattern for the Bottoms Up Bucket Hat from ChicKnits to join in my first knit along, the Bottom’s Up Knitalong hosted by Becky from Fluffa
I’m not sure yet what yarn I’ll use. I have a decided lack of yarn stores around me 🙁
My not-so-local yarn store is a 50 minute drive away, all others are much, much further. I don’t live in the middle of nowhere, I think Sydney is just a bit slow on catching up on the so called knitting “craze”. Closer by, I have Spotlight, a craft chain store that generally carries the most popular yarns (mostly superwash and eyelash), and further afield, Lincraft, a craft chain store that is slighty more upmarket than Spotlight. The closest Lincraft is a 45 minute drive. However, it is now school holidays, Emily has some birthday money left, and I think a trip to the nice big shopping centre (that just happens to house Lincraft 😉 might just be in order next week!

We all love our chocolate in our house 🙂
A nice, lazy day was had by all, and I knitted. I am now up to the last border of the duck blanket, which I intend to finish tonight. I’ll then get stuck into the Cleckheaton sweater.
And we took Emily’s yarn out of the KoolAid and wound it up. It came out a great blue!

Didn’t get much knitting done today, Em and I played with Kool Aid instead 🙂
We went up to the local shopping centre, and Emily bought herself a ball of white wool to dye.

It’s a superwash yarn, but 100% wool, so I hope the colour takes okay. The KoolAid came from the wonderful Jill who sent me a whole lot of colours a while back.
So we filled a plastic jar with water and a splash of vinegar, then Emily stirred in the KoolAid.

Sorry about the picture, I should have taken it from the other side. (The sun was behind her). She then plopped the whole ball in.

We did that at around 1pm this afternoon, it’s now nearly 11pm. The water is still blue, but definitely fading. I’m hoping we’ll get a variegated effect by tossing in the whole ball. I have no idea how long it will take for the yarn to soak up all the colour, I’ll keep you updated.
I finished the middle strip of the blankie, and I am seaming now, that’s all the knitting I got done today.

I am kicking myself this evening. I had the middle strip of the blue blanket 22 inches long, when I decided that maybe I should do a stitch count, as I hadn’t checked in a while. Quite a while. I had dropped a stitch. Here I was, merrily knitting along, thinking that I’d be seaming today, and starting a border. I had dropped the stitch waaaay back when the strip was only 7 inches.
Can you say frog?
I really like the way this yarn knits up so quickly, but it’s a pain to frog. The boucle bits get all caught up. Anyway, it’s now back to 7 inches long, and I am ready to start the knitting again.
I think I’m over the idea of the Sirdar sweater. Fickle? Me? 😉
The internet is either the best or the worst thing to happen to my knitting. At least once a day I see something that I want to knit. I have the pattern for Rogue, and that was to be my next project after the Cleckheaton sweater. Now I’m thinking about the Everyday cardigan in Peace Fleece. Just thinking at this point. Because tomorrow I’ll probably see something else I like 🙂

Here is the progress on the blue duck blanket. See what I mean about quick knit?

I’m about to start the duck at the top of the second strip. Then I just have the centre strip to knit, sew it together, and knit the border.
Here is the progress on the front of my Cleckheaton sweater.

No new parcels today. At least I have no excuse not to knit these two items over the Easter weekend. 😉
I’ve been at Elann looking at this.

It’s not something I would normally knit, and I’m not a huge fan of polyester, or plush yarn, but there is something about this sweater that I really like.
I think I’ll just consider it over the next few days, and if I haven’t forgotten about it and I still like it, then I’ll order it.