Author: Nikki

My Bag… and isn’t this ‘blogging just a touch addictive?

Just a quick note to stay “Hi” and “Great to see you!” to all the girls at the NWk2tog! Thank you so much to Lixie for my Filmo knit badge! http://lixieknitsit.blogspot.com/ is her ‘blog.

I promise to upload a pic soon, but it is far too late!

I also wanted to say that I sucessfully grafted the handle of my KYO handbag on the Tube, it looks lovely now, it isn’t twisted, and I also weaved in all my ends on that half of the bag.

I’ve actually knitted 2 too may rows on the other handle, so I am going to rip back 4, so I can knit 2 onto smaller needles, that really helps the graft look so much better! Thank you Jane for that thought.

I also wanted to say thank you to MissP for providing wine, nibbles and new sandals! Looking forward to trying them out at KF, but for now though, Bed. 🙂

Unbiased – My First “Proper” Project

This pattern is where I discovered the “joys” of using recycled Sari-Silk yarn. I fell in love with the look of the yarn, and the pattern was very easy…

I bought various Skeins with very variable quality. I got sold Skeins of the silky-tight stuff that is a joy to knit, the flat-fluffy stuff that is OK but doesn’t shine like the first style, as it looks more like cotton than silk. And, the dreaded “short-fibre” stuff that shreds and snaps when you so much as breathe on it!

Depending on what you get, it can be wonderful to knit with, or a complete pain in the back side! I even had a skein that had a mix of all three styles in it! That was annoying as I knitted!

You can see the variations in colours, I swear, every time I use this bag, I see a new colour.

This was knitted in garter stich on 5mm straights. It is knitted on the diagonal, to give it interest, and knitted that densely, it makes a very hardwearing fabric, that drapes really well, and is very pliable. I added an extra panel at the mouth, as the vee of my bag was very deep, and made the bag quite unusable!

Testing testing 123

Just a little tester for a new style website… Welcome to my ‘blog

This is going to be an infrequently updated thing I would imagine, but I feel the need to share some life with people.

I warn you now, I’m not quite sweet or innocent, and have some very diverse stuff going on! Why hide who I am? Not my style!

However, my main reason for doing this, is to share some pictures of my knitting as I go along!

So, to start this off, here are the first three things I knitted.

3 little testers

The Top article is a little hat, playing with using DPNs.

To the left is a tester for knitting an http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTunbiased.html

I knitted both in an Acrylic I bought for trying things out with.

The little scarf on the right is the very first thing I made after taking up the needles again: 1×1 rib!