I am very pleased with the way the colours are turning out. The two blue balls were rather different - one dark and light, and the other much darker overall, and I had to do a bit of a manoeuvre to avoid losing the purple in the lower half. This has produced the much darker overall appearance of the top half of the body since I want to save the lighter ball for the sleeves, in order to prevent them looking too different from each other. (Does this make sense? It does to me)
One thing I shall not be doing is going back to correct the stitches where I picked the yarn up in the wrong order, back in the corrugated rib. It is on the inside. If Teacher is looking to mark me down I shall do up the buttons and stand at the back!
We have had a raptor day today. This morning there was a juvenile Hen Harrier cruising round the recently reaped field at the back. It didn't appear to be catching anything, and certainly had the look of a bird that wasn't quite sure how this hunting thing was supposed to go.
This afternoon I was sitting in the front room with the curtain across a little way to keep the sun from dazzling, when a sparrow hit the glass. When I pulled the curtain back, there was no sign of the sparrow, but the Sparrowhawk which had been chasing it was sitting on the garden fence. And it continued to sit there until my other half went out of the front door and told it that it's parents had never married.
5 comments:
Grrrr Jean! I've now wasted half an hour looking at that amazing yarn and trying to decide which pattern to knit!!!!
Your pattern is looking amazing, it must be such fun to knit.
Celia
Sigh.... just ordered some yarn...
I'm a lost cause
C
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By gum, that didn't take you long to slip and fall!
You will be doing your hands some good - I can see the lanolin on my fingers after a session of knitting.
Good for post-gardening knitting then ;-)
C
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Just catching up with your blog and enjoying the pictures. Congratulations on winning at the show.
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