My Lady’s Quaker
I kept making mistakes on this quaker motif…
Finished version from Jardin Prive
The one in the top right corner.
I have put in some tacking lines – I hope this fixes my counting issues.
More on the Socks
Christmas Socks
I am still working on my Christmas socks – although I might have to move onto some secret squirrel things before I get finished.
I went to Knit Purl – it is a beautiful store. Definitely worth a visit.
And then on the way back to the come I passed Laneway Quilts – so I had to pop in and bought more sock yarn (of course). I am so amazed that two stores can co-exist so close to each other in a relatively small community.
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Christmas Socks 2018
Christmas Sock Progress
I have turned the heel, but still to pick up the stitches for the gusset.
Yarn: Fairy Lights from WYS, I am making the pattern up as I go along (very vanilla though).
Check out the knitted and crocheted poppies at the War Memorial in Kings Park.
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My Lady’s Quaker
My Lady’s Quaker
As someone who prides themselves, on my ability to do maths – this cross stitch has humbled me. The motif in the top right I must have stitched at least twice.
The pattern is My Lady’s Quaker from Jardin Prive – 32 count Belfast linen, DMC threads (Black and a Variegated Red)
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Christmas Socks – 2018
Fairy Lights Swatch
A new start. This is Fairy Lights from West Yorkshire Spinners (it’s the limited edition christmas one). I bought it directly from them and it arrived within a week.
I am using my Addi Crasy Trio needles (size 2.25mm) and my gauge is 8 stitches/inch.
My original plan was to knit something with a bit of texture – maybe a cable, but the colour pattern is interesting, so I am just going to knit a plain vanilla top-down sock.
I am going to cast on 66 stitches and knit a 1 by 1 rib for 2 inches (although I might do a twisted rib).
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Samplers from the V&A Museum – Clare Brown and Jennifer Wearden
I have wanted to buy a copy of this book for ages, but could never find one.
And then I came across this one at Australian Needle Arts
I think it’s the same – just a reprint (this one was published in 2003).
I have long had an interest in textiles and I find samplers particularly fascinating. I wish there was more information on the girls who stitched the samplers – where they lived, their economic situation, did they get married, did they recent making a sampler?
These girls were so young – Mary Ann Body (it’s her sampler on the cover) was only 9!
I particularly like this one – dated 1792 where a word is clearly inserted.
Here you seen the ‘away has been added later – or they miscalculated how wide the text would be.
There is a great article here on these samplers.
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My Lady’s Quaker
Progress on My Lady’s Quaker
I have been looking at various different ways of cross stitching. I stitch in hand one stitch at a time. I have tried Q-Snaps, but they hurt my hands getting them on and off, and I do have hoops (this one and while I do like this hoop – it is a bit of a pain to carry it around and set it up each time). I wanted to have less fuss and effort so I went with stitching in hand.
I do what I think is called the stab method (terrible name), but I thought I should try the sewing method however my tension was a bit crap, so I fallen back to the tried and tested method.
I was hoping to progress a bit quicker, but I will just have to make more of the process.
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Short Rows – Knitting
Working the Short Row Swatch
My Braid Hills cardigan has short row shaping on the sleeve caps. Rather than leaping straight into that I thought I would do the short row course on craftsy.
I have done short rows before – on sock heels, but never a wrap and turn short row.
This course is great – the teacher (Carol Feller) – explains things well and you can replay anything you get a bit stuck on.
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My Lady’s Quaker
My Lady’s Quaker
I have been working on this a little bit at a time. It’s from here.
It is on 32 count Belfast linen, which seems to be the limit of what I can do. It takes me a while to get my eye in so to speak and then I find it quite easy.
I have learnt how to do a pin stitch to start and stop stitching – from Hands Across the Sea Samplers. Nicola has a YouTube video you can watch. It has made the back much tidier and I am now using the loop method to start the non-variegated thread (the black in the image above).
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Braid Hills Cardigan
Braid Hills Progress
I have been working on this at my knitting group (here) and I have reached the point where I have put the two fronts and the underarm stitches on waste yarn and am working on the back.
I am enjoying knitting this – the yarn is lovely and the pattern is beautifully written (very easy to follow).
I finished the course on mistakes I would recommend it. I can now ladder back and fix most problems.
Next up I am going to try Kate Atherley’s knitting two socks at once course.
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