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Friday April 6, 2007
"O you do like to amuse yourself, don't you?" [My Father]
I started to knit something from the Erika Knight book "New Knits" that I bought last year - the one of the knitted Aran chair cover. Two things in it appealed to me - daft yet lovely though all the stuff is...
This one is a knitted hanging basket liner, which sounds to me absolutely
ideal in a natural knitted fibre (though others seem to find it amusing)
as it will hopefully retain water well and gradually rot down to a nice
natural colour. At least that is the theory.
Erika has made it in parcel string - I, however, decided to knit it in
some really horrid fawn yarn I bought on eBay (don't ask). The yarn is
some sort of acrylic 4ply so I had to adapt the pattern with more stitches,
and probably it will never rot away, being synthetic... but nice Hessian
colour (and texture!).
The perfect thing about this project is (and why there is one finished) is that I can happily knit it in the car in the dark - and it's a long way from Boulogne to Cuves.
Posted by Christina at 11:55 PM. Category: Knitting and Crochet
