Eek, a wedding.

Okay my sister in law is getting married on the 24th of October, I only found out on Thursday. I knew she was getting married but for some reason I thought is was next summer, that's why I couldn't figure out why she was having her hen night this month LOL.

So of course there being three females in this house (two of whom are teenagers) the major question was, 'what am I going to wear?'

I've dibs on one of my eldest daughter's dresses, she hasn't worn it yet and it's a floaty chiffon number in black. Wearing black to a wedding isn't the problem, the fact it's strapless is. My solution is to knit a cropped cardigan/shrug type of thing so my bra straps don't show. Also the yarn matches a pair of heals I've got so hopefully will look nice on the day.

My husband is easy to dress, he can just wear a suit, eldest is panicking and has decided she needs to go shopping (this girl can't even fit all her clothes in her robe as it is) so the plan is eldest and I go shopping on Thursday, she can pick something for herself and help me choose something for the youngest.

Youngest has requested that the dress have two colours and one of them must be blue (sigh), if I can't find anything like that I may just pick up some fabric and cobble something together for her myself.

I was looking at patterns for the cropped cardigan and fell in love with this one, unfortunately the whole pattern isn't available yet so have plumbed for this one (with a few alterations).

I'm using a Dk weight yarn with 4.5mm needles so have cast on 80 stitches instead of the recommended 50, I've split like this 14/13/26/13/14. Think I'll make it slightly longer but only by a few rows, just hope my alterations work out as I'm not a designer and am winging it LOL. I'm not adding the pointy edge as I'm not too keen on it.

The VLT gift I'm knitting for my mum is coming along nicely and should be completed next week sometime (hopefully).

Me and my big chest!

Well I got myself ready for work this morning and proudly put my new finished cardigan on, you guessed it, it's way to big.

I've done it again, I've made it for a 40inch chest, as that's what I measure as. I keep forgetting though that I'm only 5 foot tall so have a small back and shoulders, so yes it fits my chest but is big everywhere else. So the curse of being blessed in the boob department strikes again.

Oh well, looks like my Gran will be getting a new cardigan (every cloud, silver lining and all that). She reads a lot in bed so she can either wear it for day or use it as a bed jacket. Lets hope she likes the colour.

Must remember to make things for myself smaller, or actually learn how to alter a pattern in the chest area.

Actually I think if I made this cardigan again I could get away with just making a smaller size as it's quite generous in the chest area anyway.

First lace cardigan

I've just finished my first lace cardigan...yay. Of course I found out about lifelines yesterday, after I'd already frogged the ruddy thing twice due to mistakes.

For those that like me wonder what a lifeline is, it's a piece of scrap yarn/dentle floss that you thread threw your knitting every x number of rows. Then if you make a mistake (as I always do) it's easy to frog back and carry on.

Although the picture looks red the cardigan is actually burgundy, I will be taking better pictures once my new camera arrives.

The cardigan is Azure Allure by Laura Long in the 31st issue of Simply Knitting magazine.

Oops.

I seem to of cast on for something else (so much for self control), found out my nephew and his girlfriend had their baby on Sunday (7lb baby girl) so I've started a jacket for them.

There is also a matching hat and booties, so I shall be busy working on that this weekend.

I've decided to make the 3-6months size as everybody seems to buy a newborn..well newborn sized clothes and I wanted to make something that would be handy for when baby is past that point.

It's been a lot of years since I had small children and it's really nice to be able to work on some baby clothes and actually have an excuse to do so, pattern is from Let's Knit issue 1.