Burst

Burst is what I'm calling this project. It's an interesting pattern from 'Just One More Row' designed in geometric shape. What you see in the picture is the front neck-shoulder portion completed. The matching piece for the back is under construction.

The way this pattern is written makes it as easy to size for an infant, as for any-size adult. That's what grabbed me. Besides the geometry in it, ie.

Knit (r)elated

Elated - that's how I felt when I saw my friend's completed projects. She, who was proficient with crochet, had never learnt to knit. And now, she has a blanket, 2 teeny sweaters and matching baby caps to her credit. Another friend has now re-caught the knitting bug and has picked up the needles again!

I'm now reading up on how to instruct young children. Anout turned 5 recently and I'm most excited about being able to introduce the craft to her. :)

You know, knitting quite changed my life. It set about a chain of events - first, my shoulders turned sore. The pain ofcourse was a combination of strain of knitting and that which the shoulder bore with daylong 'keyboard-tapping-and-mousing'. This was followed by chiro treatment, which worked very well but did not stop the problem from recurring every so often. This was about the time when I was 'expanding' my knitting horizons, visiting knitting conventions, social knitting groups, wildly studying the online material and generally going berserk with the possibilities of the craft.

To support the chiro's cause, I started working out at the gym 5 times a week. And surprisingly, the shoulder troubles tamed. And how! That just meant that, if I wanted to knit, I had to exercise as well. Really, I didn't mind that. In the end, I was physically more fit and mentally stimulated by the workouts. Who wouldn't love that?

It's funny how things fall into place. Right at this time, the company I work at gifted me an iPod - it was celebration time and every employee got one. A 30GB video iPod at that. I call it 'Gollum'. Installing iTunes opened a new avenue, that of podcasts. Gollum just allowed me to be tuned in to podcasts while I was on the treadmill or the elliptical or pumping (light) weights.

What started as a revisiting of a craft I'd learnt as an eager 12 yr old has taken a life of its own. I'm loving every moment of it! I have about 5 readers to this blog and you know, the number did not decrease while I was on a break; a break that stretched a bit much, I admit! Thanks for sticking around!! :)

Third time lucky

Hopefully! The 'cherry' top fit Anoushka perfectly. Anout is the 5 yr old I've been referring to often as my 'older niece'. Regarding the fit though, the lace finishing at the very bottom was not stretchy enough to get in and out of easily.

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That ofcourse was about an hour's worth of tink-and-knit.

The other most recent project was Knitty's Duo for Annika, the 2yr old in my life. (The 'younger niece'). For lack of sufficient yarn, I did not knit sleeves and knit it vest-style. While I do not have a picture of how lovely it looked on her, here's a pic of the yarn I used:



A minor modification was my use of stockinette in place of garter as the yarn was quite bulky to begin with. I should add that a neck such as this is very kind on the kiddos while wearing the garment.

I'm onto a new project. Don't believe me? Lookie!



You've seen this yarn in my early posts - can you guess which one it is?