Autumn is gripping. Heating had to be used twice or thrice. Knee rug has been wrapped closer.
Talking of knee rugs, I have taken to building blankets, constructing covers, making mufflers... I had mentioned a few weeks back about getting into the box with mum's leftover homespun.
There was a lot in there. There is another tub also - not homespun, but all wool, though of 4-ply rather than the DK and chunky contained here.There were also swatches of 'testers' for tension and pattern.
Some of it I recognised form OZ days; it contained the 'free' fleece. Some of it I recall was stuff she had been handed by a local farmer to her in Armadale and she had wondered if she would ever be able to make anything decent of it, so untidy was the starting product.
I began with that. It was certainly rough! Still had grass and bindiis (little pricky nasties) in it and the lanolin was thick. As I worked the first YAM-youKneek-Kneed-rug I had no pattern in mind. Just let the hook and yarn do the talking. Quickly I determined that there were going to be four and each my sibs and my niece are going to get them for Christmas.
A peculiar woven circle of mother's and a tiny patch with Fairisle stitching.
The rest of mum's bits were knitted - I crochet, so contrast to come. Lots of the wool is still in hanks and needing rolling.
Am currently on the third... watch this space...
Talking of knee rugs, I have taken to building blankets, constructing covers, making mufflers... I had mentioned a few weeks back about getting into the box with mum's leftover homespun.
Some of it I recognised form OZ days; it contained the 'free' fleece. Some of it I recall was stuff she had been handed by a local farmer to her in Armadale and she had wondered if she would ever be able to make anything decent of it, so untidy was the starting product.
I began with that. It was certainly rough! Still had grass and bindiis (little pricky nasties) in it and the lanolin was thick. As I worked the first YAM-youKneek-Kneed-rug I had no pattern in mind. Just let the hook and yarn do the talking. Quickly I determined that there were going to be four and each my sibs and my niece are going to get them for Christmas.
A peculiar woven circle of mother's and a tiny patch with Fairisle stitching.
The rest of mum's bits were knitted - I crochet, so contrast to come. Lots of the wool is still in hanks and needing rolling.
Am currently on the third... watch this space...
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| The darker brown is the real rough stuff - the rest was only marginally better! |
Today's theme: knitting yarns!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing how the rugs turn out.
Cheers, Gail.
Ouch; cannot believe your fingers aren't priced through and through with the burr chips.
ReplyDeleteIt probably is good you were in India or Oz when I sold off the many skeins of handspun yarn. Many, many. Beautiful stuff; ebay was sad when it was over.
Those will become family treasures when finished... we can't wait to see the end products.
ReplyDeleteIt's too too hot here today to think of knitting.
ReplyDeleteMerle...............
I see, here is stuff to working!
ReplyDeleteLike the naturally colors.
By the way: yesterday I've seek my old knitwork to finish it... - yeah, the autumn is coming!
Have a nice time
That's so cool to be knitting the last time I tried knitting was last year when we knitted our own sweaters for our winter trip to Japan. I haven't been knitting since then.
ReplyDeleteHow brilliant I had an aunt who used to do this :-)
ReplyDeleteWhile I live in the crafty side of life this is one thing I have never done.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful textures - look so warm & cozy... :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Wordless Wednesday!
I wanted to let everyone know Dolly is back & although I'm back a little slow I'll be stickin' around for a while. :)
ReplyDeleteI used to be a hooker! Haven't hooked a rug in ages!
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