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Short Dark Friend has ordered a set of cardigans for new twins. And quick! So I’ll have to divert from the usual striped cardigans/jumpers that do take a bit of time. I have this pattern at home – easy garter stitch with the front and back knitted as 1 piece that I’ve been wanting to try for a while.

Just trying to convince her to choose colours for the cardigans that will allow orange to be the best match for the contrast colour round the bottom!

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Update just in:
Yaaaay! She’s chosen lolly pink with orange contrast for girl and bright (not navy) blue with orange contrast for boy!!

Mrs Moggy had some left-over wool and after seeing my first attempt at a puppy sweater asked if I could make her one from the wool that she could donate to the SPCA. This one 2-toned even – darker blue on the underside. Such a shame we can’t get to see a puppy wearing it.

Jif let me know about a pattern on the SPCA website for knitting or crocheting sweaters for their puppies. Am not really a puppy or dog person but in between knitting projects it’s been good to have something to do.

I just finished it the other night then rather fortuitously the SPCA had a group of puppies down at Kirkcaldie & Stains so I was able to deliver the sweater in person. However they only had biggish puppies there so they weren’t able to dress one in it. I’ve written to them to ask for a photo if one does end up wearing it so I’ll just have to wait and see.

She likes them! After 4 attempts at getting a ’smoother stitch’ for Short Dark Friend’s arm warmers we have a winner. Even though she was dubious about the ribbing having to be on either end to stop them curling up the results are good. Am quite pleased with them and impressed with how ’smooth’ they look.

Another happy customer! Donna was complaining of cold hands and arms when working and said she needed some long gloves – so I offered up hand crafted arm warmers. She was very excited – especially when they could be tailor made in her company colours!

Now onto some for my Short Dark Friend … have started and unpicked twice. She’s not so keen on the ribbing but stocking stitch just curls up … she’s given in so attempt number 3 begins tonight!

A while ago, after knitting my tree cosy in the Cuba Street Carnival, I saw on the Outdoor Knit blog that knitters were being called on to help create a knitted ‘installation’ called Yarn Forward at the Manchester (England) Craft & Design Centre. So I followed the instructions and sent over a knitted orange strip of the required size.

I’ve been following their blog for a while and have seen pictures of where the strips end up – they’re being sewn end to end around the balcony railing in the Manchester Craft & Design Centre – but when I posted mine off I never thought in the hundred’s that they’ve been receiving that they would name me and my strip and put a photo on their blog! But they did!! Am delirious with excitement. Over a bit of knitting. Sad I know!

So here’s the Yarn Forward’s blog post

And the photo of my orange moss stitch strip!

When we walked up Cuba Street this weekend I noticed that our knitting, including MY tree cosy, had been taken down from the trees outside The Matterhorn. I’d always wondered how long knitting graffiti stayed around for and who eventually took it away. Someone snapped a council worker in action removing the knitting last week and sent the picture into the Outdoor Knit blog.

A month to the day and the possum jumper is finished! It looks great (if I may say so myself) and the stars even look like stars! I think it’s going to be too big for Ava but that’s the great thing with kids, she’ll grow into it. It certainly feels thick and warm so I hope she gets some wear out of it this winter.

And the camera was fixed just in time for this photo – and I didn’t have to pay anything for it except the freight. Nice to know that warrantees and fine print sometimes *do* go the way of the consumer. Am very impressed to get the 5 year old camera fixed for free!

Soft tap tap tap on the glass wall of our office early this morning – my wool supplier had arrived with the additional ball of possum wool I need to finish the possum jumper with stars on it. The lights were out in the stairwell so it felt very back alley and suspicious!

New possum knitting project requires me to count stitches across on every row in order to make moss stitch stars up the centre of the sweater. I’m only used to ticking off rows, now I have to tick off stitches as well – I’m still managing to watch TV and listen while I’m doing it but can’t talk back or I loose my count. So the Mister is enjoying rambling on to himself a bit!

Anyway, the first star went OK. And the knitting is so very soft.