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Jun. 7th, 2003 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
littleheavenAaaaaah,
The weekend! Dontcha just love it? The sky is blue, hubby has gone to golf, and I have the whole house to myself for five blissful hours. During which I have to dust, vaccuum, do laundry, change the bed linen, tidy, unload the dishwasher, take my sister to collect her car from the mechanic, and buy some wool. *sigh* When you work full-time, your spare time is never your own.
On a squicky note, something is biting me. I don't know what, but the current theory is sandflies. Bloody itchy bites that drive me mad, and come up day after day whenever anything irritates them. I haven't seen any bugs of any sort actually doing the deed, yet every day there are more bites. I'm up to about 15 now. It's a mystery. There are earthworks in the new subdivision behind our house, so maybe they've disturbed some fleas (urgh!) or something.
Anyway, this weekend, itching aside, I am going to knit a pashmina (okay, a shawl) - a trendy one, mind you, not a grandma one. If only I can find somewhere that stocks boucle wool. You'd think in a country of 600million sheep, it would be easy to find!
The weekend! Dontcha just love it? The sky is blue, hubby has gone to golf, and I have the whole house to myself for five blissful hours. During which I have to dust, vaccuum, do laundry, change the bed linen, tidy, unload the dishwasher, take my sister to collect her car from the mechanic, and buy some wool. *sigh* When you work full-time, your spare time is never your own.
On a squicky note, something is biting me. I don't know what, but the current theory is sandflies. Bloody itchy bites that drive me mad, and come up day after day whenever anything irritates them. I haven't seen any bugs of any sort actually doing the deed, yet every day there are more bites. I'm up to about 15 now. It's a mystery. There are earthworks in the new subdivision behind our house, so maybe they've disturbed some fleas (urgh!) or something.
Anyway, this weekend, itching aside, I am going to knit a pashmina (okay, a shawl) - a trendy one, mind you, not a grandma one. If only I can find somewhere that stocks boucle wool. You'd think in a country of 600million sheep, it would be easy to find!
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Cold night tonight
Date: 2003-06-08 07:42 am (UTC)hugs
PS. Mum also suffers from sandfly bites in certain areas...welts that she scratches til they bleed and infect. She suggested a course of complex B.....some people have more success with it than others but it's worth a shot.
Re: Cold night tonight
Date: 2003-06-08 01:35 pm (UTC)The pattern for the shawl is:
200g of either mohair or boucle (I'd estimate that mohair would be warmer, but I can't stand all the little fluffy bits that get everywhere - although, apparently, if you put it in the freezer for an hour before you start knitting, it solves that problem!).
12mm needles for mohair, 10mm for boucle.
Cast on two stitches.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2: Knit 1, make 1 (pick up loop between stitches and knit into the back of it), knit 1.
Row 3: Knit 2, make 1, knit 1
Row 4: Knit 3, make 1, knit 1.
Continue, increasing 1 stitch before the last stitch on each row, until you run out of wool. If you want tassles, cut these out first. Use about 25cm long strands, three per tassle, attach about 5cm apart (or whatever suits - it doesn't acutally say how big the shawl ends up, or how many you'd need!).
See, easy! I'm going great guns, I've started both the black sort-of-boucle one, and the "feathers" one, which is going to be spectacular!