Starting my Viking Jumper

18th Mar 201919th Mar 2019 lottie hill2 Comments

Well by the time my needles arrived I had knitted a Hiking Reindeer Cowl (pattern from TwistedYarn) and finished off the ends from the picture part of JJ’s jumper

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So I have started my jumper(pattern picture above). The body is knitted, picture above shows where the front is to be steeked for the neck opening, and I have finally started the first sleeve. I thought I understood what I had to do on the first time of reading through. Second time reading I came across a few vagaries and so I decided to draw it out and annotate. The pattern was originally written in Norwegian and was then translated into English and this is where the problems lay. The sleeve starts in rows to allow for an opening with a button fastening and then is worked in rounds but the pattern forgets to tell you to join.

Anyway I am now up to the pattern and it looks ok for now. Please excuse the pet hairs, Frankie is inseistent about sitting with me at the moment, he usually sits with Paul.

Lottie

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Preparations

12th Feb 2019 lottie hillLeave a comment

I’m getting ready to start my Vikings of Norway knitting pattern. I’ve printed out the pattern looked at my boxes of needles and found I’ve no 3.5mm double ended needles. Needless to say a order has now been put in for new needles.

Until they arrive I will just have to case on something else……. Something small maybe a hat of some description or will I just make myself sew up JJs Thomas the Tank Engine jumper?

Lottie

Crafting

Crochet two

28th Jan 2019 lottie hill2 Comments

I can look at a written knitting pattern and understand what the pattern will look like. I have always thought it was like being fluent in a foreign language.

Before I started my Poldark blanket I thought that all crochet was made up of double (dc) and treble (trc) crochet in English terminology or single (SC), double (dc) in American terminology and that my biggest problem would be keep in my mind which terminology was being used in the pattern. I know differently. Looking at the pattern I found it full of terms I have never used before, bpdc (back post double crochet) and fptc2tog (frontpost treble crochet 2 together) among them. It was like looking at a foreign language very similar to one that you know being able to pick out some words you know but others you can only guess at. At some of the stages it provided pictures of the results of these stitches but not how to do them so I turned to the internet and especially to youtube to find out out to do the stitches.

My next search is how to do foundation double crochet

Happy hooking!

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Crochet Time

21st Jan 201921st Jan 2019 lottie hillLeave a comment

Crochet is not my forte I must admit. I have always preferred to knit but about 18 months ago I bought a pack of wool to crochet a Ross Poldark blanket. In the pack are shades of blue, grey and brown. I made a half-hearted attempt to start it when I bought it but since then it has vegetated in the wardrobe cupboard. This week I told myself it needed to be finished and that I am to complete at least one round a day. It has helped that the eldest granddaughter has decided to crochet an owl keyring and as she learns the stitches to make her owl I have been working on the blanket.

Anyway week at the end of week one and I am now on round 16 of the centre square. Hopefully will get the centre square of 24 rounds finished next week then will come the challenge of crocheting in rows.