Snow

It has been really cold over here recently, so cold in fact that it even snowed last night. I know for many parts of the world snow is nothing more than an every winter event (I am Russian, I should be used to it), but for England it is something rare and unusual.
Thank God, I don’t have to travel till Friday, when it had snowed last year trains stopped running.

Anyways, because it is so cold I’ve got a chance to wear my River shawl together with the matching hat. I even bought a lovely felted broche to go with it.




On the knitting news: all of my knitting will have to wait till weekend as I have left it in Cam deliberately (it is a new term and I have to focus on it). However, on Sunday night I made further progress on Demi: it is 4 complete diamonds now. I find it quit a struggle to photograph it as the colour is so dark. Honestly, I am not sure I will make it justice when it will come to modelling for the FO post.

Cry Me A River!

My River shawl/stall is done! Finally after almost 3 months!!!
This is my first lace project and it surely wasn’t easy for me. To be entirely honest it felt almost as my first knit because I knitted 30 rows, spotted a mistake and then had to rip something like 10 rows and start all over again. It was a love-hate relationship and there were moments when I felt like Penelope and moments when I wanted to throw it away and never see the damn thing again.

And then it was the artistic torture of blocking it. Blocking like many other things in life needs perfection which comes with the experience, so there will be other lace projects next year ;)

Pattern: River from Rowan 38
Yarn: 2 balls of Rowan Kidsilk Spray in colour Medici
Needles: Addi 7mm 40’ circulars
Modifications: none

Frogging

Had to do a very sad thing today: to frog 2/3 of the back of the lovely Phildar cardi I ve started this summer. Never thought I would have to say it, bt losing weight is disadvantageous for your current knitting projeckts. As I ve slimmed down from 44/46- 40/42 in 4 months, I didnt realise it would affect my cardi, stupid I suppouse. So now I have to redo the whole thing and it is not a small job to do. Here is the cardi

I am also knitting River form Rowan 38 as a matching compliment for one of my self-adapted designes. Here is the latest version of the update and the hat itself as I have not yet posted it