Ends

A note on all those ends in the kilim bag photo. I am not a knitter who knits in the ends as she goes along. I like intarsia and will of course twist threads to prevent holes, but have never managed to knit in the ends without making a bulge and I also feel they are not secure enough. This bag would have challenged my limited skills in this direction as the front face is reverse stocking stitch. But to prevent purls of the wrong colour showing, any change in colour is done with the front facing with a knit stitch while all that can be purled is. This makes nice V shapes instead… I usually wait until l finish knitting a piece before sewing in the ends too, crazy as I hate it, but I think it is superstition. Frogging when sewing in of ends has commenced is a pain. On one jumper which was sort of Navajo style with lots of triangles and stripes, I had about 1000 ends. That took a while.

Interweave Knits. Well I’m still waiting for this blogger’s boyfriend’s comments. In the meantime, my general view is Bohemian chic is not for me.

Saturday I trekked to Cheltenham for the Stitch and Creative crafts show. This is a small affair with a host of cardmaking stalls, a couple of fabric ones and a couple of yarn ones. I left the house at 7.30 and thanks to someone having an accident on the M5, which was already down to one lane because of roadworks, causing it to shut completely, we reached the show just after 11. We should have got there for opening time at 9.30. I knitted a lot of creamy sock pair#2 (the driver was jealous she couldn’t knit even though we were travelling at about a mile an hour), and finished it later in the day. Nice to see the Glouc Weavers Spinners and Dyers, local lace people and Quilters. It was fantastically busy until about 2 then practically noone stopped to say hello or say “I haven’t seen anyone knit socks since I was a girl” (always said by an OAP), or “I love making socks”. Only bought a book on yarn dyeing (another one – I think they like company). We played I-spy to keep ourselves entertained.

If my Handspun swap pal is out there, hi, do get in touch!