Making Monday Without Photos

Because my SD card is broken, so you’ll have to use your imagination.

I haven’t been feeling well for the last few days, which has been the perfect excuse to sit on the sofa, watch a lot of Wimbledon and knit. First up is an Urchin hat, made from some handspun ‘art yarn’. The yarn is spun from Wensleydale top with some dyed Wensleydale locks spun in with it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I knitted the hat up that I spotted two problems with the yarn. First, there is a section where I clearly used the wrong base fibre. I don’t know how a handful of BFL got in with the Wensleydale, but there it is. It’s a different colour and texture. Second, I wasn’t very good at evenly splitting the dyed locks along the base fibre. I’d hoped for uneven clumps all over the hat. What I’ve got is half a hat that’s mostly pink with some cream bits, and half that’s mostly cream with some pink bits. On the other hand, I love the shape of the hat, so I think I will probably still wear it.

Second up is a crochet bag. I bought some very pretty yarn at Woolfest, which I initially planned to use for a Betty Mouat Cowl, but I decided it’s not really soft enough to wear next to the skin. And I wanted to crochet something. I find crochet even more soothing and mindless than knitting when I’m ill. I looked around on Ravelry and despite the thousands of patterns, couldn’t find what I had in mind, so I’ve been making it up as I go. It’s got a flat base, ripple pattern sides and is going to have neat crocheted handles. If it turns out well, I’ll try to write it up as a p/hop pattern, I think.

And finally, some fabric arrived last week for a new quilt. I’ve made a couple of wonky log cabin squares and they are looking gorgeous. There’s no hurry to get this one finished, so I’ll try and do a few squares every week or so.

Oh, and I made strawberry jam before the SD card broke. When they are selling 500g punnets for 20p, it would be rude not to!

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