Bobbly Border
This week is a bit crazy at our house – my daughter will be confirmed at the weekend and so my mother is here and my daughter’s godfather will arrive soon too. The children have a zillion things going on and I’m trying to edit a monumental doctoral thesis in economics to boot (my day job!).
While I would really like to get down to machine quilting the tops on the waiting to be quilted pile, they will have to wait as I have no chunks of time in my schedule big enough to baste a quilt…..
So I’ve been snatching the odd minute to work on my Juliet Shell. It’s coming along nicely, but yarn may be a little tight (when isn’t that the case I hear you cry!), so I have decided to finish up the neck and arm edging and then I can just knit the torso literally until I run out of wool. (For once I’m rather glad that I’m not a tall person – there’s nothing worse than a sweater that is just too short, is there?). The pattern for the edging is rather extraordinary – and well, a bit of a faff to tell you the truth. It looks pretty nice, but if I could think of something as pretty and which would use less yarn and time, I’d probably pull it out and start again. It’s a series of little bobbles, which involve a lot of turning of the work and passing zillions of stitches over. I hope it’s going to lie flat when I’m done and not curl outwards as I think might happen and which will then reveal all the casting on that I really would prefer to hide.
What I do really like about this pattern (apart from the fact that it’s top down) is the mock cable stitch for the lower part, which I think is really pretty and just that little bit different. All in all I would have to say that Cap Sease who wrote the pattern did a very nice job! I hope it looks as good on as it does off!
So coffee break over and back to work for me now. Have a great day!
Helen
