The Beekeeper's Quilt

September always makes me feel miserable. I am a summer person and it is such a long, long time until next summer! The long slow slide into ever darker, shorter days from September to Christmas is the bit I hate the most, so I always spend September getting lots of projects started to keep me going until the spring.

This one is The Beekeeper's Quilt by tiny owl knits.

I have made one modification - I am not stuffing the honeycombs and will sew them together all the way around to make a double sided blanket.

I am using Noro Kureyon sock yarn. For non-Japanese speakers Kureyon is the Japanese version of the English word 'crayon' retransliterated into English. (No equivalent of the letter c in Japanese and every consonant except final n has to be followed by a vowel.) As the yarn is a thick and thin I should not like to use it for socks, but I thought it was perfect for this.



The difficulty of changing sheets

I got organized to change the sheets and do the laundry, only to walk in and find lots of floofy belly on show. I hadn't the heart to change the bedding as he looked so very relaxed and comfortable!

Now what was the point?

of my putting a hand embroidered - and carefully ironed - tablecloth on the living room table when what it has on it is

!



Dockside Cardigan

Sunny has stopped being quite so excited by my yarn so I have got out the Dockside Cardigan by Amy Miller that I am knitting again.

The construction is interesting. First a wide circle of ribbing is knitted and then divided into sections (on thread and a holder). Then one section is knit decreasing gradually at the sides to form the back. I haven't worked enough yet, but you can see how it will eventually be joined to the stitches on the stitch holder at what will become the neck.

The textured pattern is worked on every row which takes concentration in this dark yarn as any mistake would really show up!

My knitting corner

There has been some recent discussion on ravelry about comfortable chairs for knitting so I thought I would show you my knitting corner. There's a desk for my pattern etc. a chair to sit in, a footstool for my feet, a lamp to shine over my shoulder onto my work, a radiator for cold days, and a window to look out of - what could be better!

The chair is one from a set of 4 with a round table intended for a conservatory (which we have not got!) They are very comfortable chairs - at least they are since I discarded the thin, hard cushion pads they came with and made my own cushions with decently thick pads! There's a rectangular cushion for the small of my back.



And a knitted and felted cushion to rest my head on. As you can see, the cushion cover is made to fit over the top of the chair back and is tied in place with strings at each side. It is very comfortable, better than many armchairs - and far easier for arthritic joints to get in and out of!



Puncetto

I'm about halfway there with the latest piece of puncetto. The staggered edges are working out just fine.



Cats' Doormat - finished

I got the doormat in tapestry crochet finished yesterday. As the cotton was quite soft I boil washed it - this shrinks everything, making the stitches tighter around the core threads. This makes the mat harder wearing and more stable.

It is relentlessly wet here - the lawn is the consistency of a wet bath sponge, so the cats are trecking in plenty of mud. The other mat is going in the wash today as it is solid with mud.