A little bit of knitting and computer disaster.

I don't have much to report.

I started the Ochre Cardigan and completed the yoke.  The sleeves are divided off onto waste yarn.

I"m loving this yarn from KiwiYarn-a.  It is so soft to work with.

I'm also wanting to finish my first pair of socks before winter is over with.

So I followed the instructions I was given in the shop and that are on the ball band.  Which is to start one sock from the outside after the yellow waste yarn, then start the second from the yarn in the centre of the ball, after the yellow waste yarn.  As you can see, I'm not going to have 2 identical socks.  Oh dear.  However I will perservere.  These will probably only ever be worn under trousers, so hopefully won't be too obviously different.

Now on to my disaster.  As everybody knows you should always back up your work in case your system crashes.  I have never had a system  crash in 30 odd years of using computers so got lazy.  Mistake.  My tablet completely died this morning.  I had all my progress from my cross stitch charts on Pattern Keeper and all my knitting progress and notes in Knit Companion.  I"ve lost them all.  I'm having to go through and mark off what was done in Pattern Keeper.  Not so easy is my knitting.  I had marked in Knit Companion what size I was making for my Flax jumper and ochre cardigan and made notes and recorded rows I was up to.  Now I am going to have to figure it all out again.  Lesson learned.  I will always back up.

Knitting haul - a swift!! and another project bag, started Ochre Cardigan

I had an exciting knitting haul this week.

I got a ChiaoGoo Amish Swift, a KnitPro ball winder, both from Knitnstitch,  and some hand dyed yarn called Sixteen, 100% Merino and some stitch markers from Kiwiyarn-a.

Attached to the yarn were lightbulb markers and the cute little wooden "Handmade with Love" buttons.

Of course I had to play straight away

Here is the yarn on the swift

And here it is caked up - so pretty.

I'm going to make the Ochre Cardigan by Ambah O'Brien, a paid pattern on ravelry.  I should just need 2 skeins of yarn for this, but that was going to be cutting it close, and I may want to lengthen it, so I bought an extra skein, just in case. It was swatched the same day, and is now cast on my needles.


I also made another knitting project bag.  This is out of the leftover fabric that I made my friends bag in.  It is a large drawstring bag, with a handle.

Specialty stitches from my sewing machine decorate the bottom band.

Plenty of room inside for a large project and 2 roomy pockets.

I've also had some colourful visitors to the garden. These lorikeets are enjoying the oranges on the neighbours trees which I can see from my living room.