Friday 30 March 2012

Spring has sprung





Got probably one of the last glimpses of snow this year as I walked up to the castle. Monte Cusna. 2,121 metres, affectionatly called 'The Sleeping Man'














I just have to knit YELLOW in the spring. Was captivated by the pattern on the back of this one. (Dahlia by Heather Zoppetti). Unfortunatley I hadnt realised that the front was so boring. I diligently ploughed my way through knitting the given waterfall fronts but was not at all happy with results. Unpicked and reknitted as a standard cardi. Still boring. Perhaps I should wear it back to front?






This one's backed by an embaressing tale. It was a kit, the wool was knitted in a dipdyed knitted sushi roll, as you knitted the shawl the pattern unravelled from the roll. I loved the idea but had so many problems ordering it and then when it came, part of a large order, my roll was badly stained. In the end the company were correct, gave me a full refund. I forgot about it for a year but curious to experiment got it out again. The final row should have been bright orange but was dirty and there wasnt enough. I had to improvise.and the quality of the wool wasnt specail, not for a shawl, but it doesn't look bad in the end !

3 comments:

paula said...

Your sweaters are so pretty . . . the back so gorgeous. Guess you will either have to ewear it backwrds OR you could walk everywhere backwards. I can't believe how pretty it is.

And the shawl . . such an interesting thing to work form the center and see the colors come out. . . very interesting . . and it looks good in the picture.

wool and walking in The Apennines said...

walk backwards...love it!!!

Anonymous said...

Lots of pretty knitting...
Shame about the front of your cardi...

BB