I'm participating in Ysolda Teague's Follow Your Arrow Mystery KAL again this year. It runs for 6 weeks and we've had two clues. The pattern calls for 550 yards and I thought it would be a good project to make the best use of the yardage of a skein of Wollmeise. No such luck. Here is clue #1 knit in that selection. As you can tell, far too dark for the pattern.
So I went back to the drawing board and ordered yarn from Eat. Sleep. Knit - specifically MadelineTosh Tosh Merino Light in the Oceana colorway and here is how my project stands at the end of Clue #2. With blocking, the texture will look more like sideways arrows. I had to work hard at not pulling the floats too tight. I'm trying to loosen up my tension in general. It's more important with something like this. I've learned a lot with this project already! Even though it seems I've knit most of it twice. Ugh. Looking at this picture, the pattern isn't very prominent. Trust me it is in real life, this is just a bad i-Phone pic.
I also ordered some yarn to make my husband a hat. This knit up super fast. Like two days.
MadelineTosh Tosh Chunky
Mandala Colorway
I also made a knitting project bag. Aren't these knitting sheep cute? It doesn't match my project but I wanted to use the knitting themed fabric. I used the Noodlehead tutorial but ended up veering from the pattern a bit. Sewing is not intuitive for me and I needed more photos.
It's lined in a co-ordinating knitting fabric.
That's it for me for now. Have a great week and I hope all your stitches are happy ones!
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