This is my latest FO.

It is a gents 42″ Aran Jumper.

I am hoping that I will be able to do some craft fairs this year, but I haven’t booked any yet as I don’t know if I will have either enough stock or transport to get me there.

My other half, David, has started his own business and needs our car every day. He is planning on getting a van, but that has to wait until the money starts coming in on a regular basis, so I am stuck at home most of the time at the moment, only getting out to do the food shop in the evening.

No wool shops for me for a while! Lucky for me I was buying wool regularly for a while and have a decent amount to keep me going.

I have already started knitting an aran coat. I have finished the back and am about half way up the first front. I will get some photos taken when I can and post again.

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This is a 38″ Gents Aran Jumper. It took just under 800g of yarn to do.

Excuse the display, but I only have the one tailors dummy and it is female. :)

The jumper has patterns all over it. I don’t thing there is one bit that doesn’t have some sort of cable pattern or twist stitch on it.

It was great fun to knit.

I have knitted it in 25% Wool, 75% Acrylic so that it can be machine washed at 40 degrees.

This garment was knitted for stock and will be going to my next Craft Fair with me.

I still have lots of knitting to do for stock, including more jumpers, jackets, coats, cardigans, socks……… and much more!

I have been busy building a website for my other half who has just started up an offline business of his own, so I haven’t had much time to post to the blog. But I have been knitting. :)

A while ago I bought some Wendy Mistral Chunky yarn. I had hoped to use it to knit a certain jumper but it turns out that there wasn’t enough. So I eventually found a pattern for Mistral and knitted the smallest size to make sure that I have enough yarn to do more.

The white bits are in the yarn. This is a simple pattern with the cables at the front the only detail, the rest is all plain knitting.

This is a 32″ and took 8 x 50g balls.

Wendy Mistral Chunky contains 29% Wool, 68% Acrylic and 3% Polyester.

It can be machine washed at 40 degrees.

I have enough yarn to do another 4 jumpers in various sizes and colours.

I will post pictures when I have them done.

This is the first of 6 baby sets that I have to make for a customer. There will be another one the same pattern as this but the main colour will be white with pink as the contrast.

Pattern Details:-

Sirdar Sunshine Series 260 - This is an old pattern that belongs to my customer. I am not sure if it is still available, but you may be able to find it on Ebay.

Baby DK yarn used

I am currently going through a phase where I can’t seem to finish anything.

I don’t have any photos for todays post, the weather is too dull to get a good shot of anything, but here is a list of some of the things that I will have to finish over the coming weeks:-

Cream Aran Jacket - I just need to sew it up and do the neck and front bands

Graphite Aran Scarf - This one just needs the fringe put onto the ends

Red 4ply Scarf - This has been sitting for a while and I might just rip it out and do something else with the yarn.

Blue Short Sleeved Top - I am knitting this one in Sirdar Duet. It knits up really quick and it is just a plain pattern, but the yarn is cotton/Nylon mix and the nylon has a habbit of catching on everything, including my dry fingers :( Not sure if I like this one of not.

Order for 6, yes that is six, baby sets. - Each one includes jacket, bonnett, boottees and mitts. There are 3 different patterns and my customer wants 1 pink and 1 white of each pattern.

I am going to have to get these things finished because the craft fairs will be starting soon and I really don’t have enough stock of anything at the moment, so my needles will need to be moving pretty quickly for the next while.

I will post photos when I get some of the above finished. :)

Hats and scarfs have always been very popular at the Craft Fairs and I like to have a lot of them in stock so there is no chance of running out of them.

I have knitted another old favourite again. The wine coloured hat is knitted in 25% Wool Aran. The rib is about 34 rows and takes a while to do, but the rest knits up really quickly.

Next we have another hat knitted on a circular needle. It is 25% Wool Aran again, this one is plain stocking stitch with a two colour pattern at the crown. It has a simple rolled brim so there was no ribbing to do.

This is my first completed pair of 4ply socks knitted on 4 dpns. Normally I start knitting a pair and get fed up before I reach the heel, but this time, I finished them. :)

Next in the photo, we have a pair of fingerless mitts. This were also knitted on 4 dpns. They took a while to finish, but I kept at it. :)

Last but not least we have the fuchsia coloured scarf. It is a simple 4 row pattern and knitted in a wool/cotton mix.

The scarf is quite long and warm.

Not one, but two of them. :)

I finally finished the first Kid Silk Haze Scarf, the dark one, and then decided to do another one.

The second one knitted up quicker than the first, but the pattern isn’t difficult and the lighter yarn helped too.

I have bought enough yarn to do another 3 of these scarfs, although I think I will take a break before I start the next one.

The colours used here are Blackcurrent and Glacier of Rowans Kid Silk Haze.

This yarn was lovely to knit with and really didn’t take long to knit up. It uses 3 x 25g balls per scarf and you just knit until you are nearly at the end of the yarn. The pattern says to finish on a row 15 of the pattern, but with the first scarf I finished on the 7th row of the 31st repeat.

The second scarf is slightly longer. It finished on the 15th row of the 31st repeat. There was still some more yarn left over, maybe enough to get to the 7th row of the 32nd repeat, but I didn’t want to take the chance and have to unravel back to the 15th row.

The worst thing about this yarn is taking back rows because of the fluffy bits. :)

The yarn for the first scarf came as a kit from Rowan, purchased from John Lewis in Aberdeen for £25.

I then bought the second and a further 3 scarfs from GetKnitted.com The yarn costs £7.25 per ball, although you may be able to find it slightly cheaper if you shop around online.