November 30, 2018

All my knitting is done as a donation – either shawls to the Church or for the Christmas baskets from the Salvation Army – and Mum’s birthday is perfect timing so I make them in her honour.

I more or less made up my own pattern for this. I had a picture cut from a magazine (from many years ago) and I’ve always liked the colours and the sequence of colours.

The stitch for the bottom sections is a duplicate of a pattern I’ve used many times in baby blankets. It works up fine in the heavier weight yarn. The rest of the pattern was straight garter stitch.

I’d like to try this in a light-weight and softer yarn – I think it would make a lovely shawl.

Taylor asked me to make her a Messy Bun hat in teal. I found a free pattern online but I didn’t have any teal yarn in my bins. When I asked for an alternate colour she picked purple; I didn’t have any purple either. But Walmart had both colours so I was set to start.

It didn’t take long to knit and I had it in the mail before I took a photo. When Taylor received the package she called me to say thank you. I asked if she would like one in purple as well (since I had the yarn) and we agreed I’d make a second one.

I finished the second one today and I’ll get it off in the mail to her tomorrow.

In an effort to use up some of my yarn I’ve been knitting Prayer Shawls for the Reformed Church of Powell River. The Guild meets at this church, both for our meetings and our bees.

I like the pattern on this one, but I found I was bored with it before I was finished. Have I mentioned that I hate fringes? It’s all good as I used up another six balls of yarn.