Tuesday 16 October 2007

Toasty Buttered Marshmallow

Well what to say? Lots has been happening, and there are many WIPs at various stages - both knitting and crochet.

Here's one item - a knitted collar worked up in Colinette Silky Chic along with some Jaeger Matchmaker Merino and some hand-dyed superwash soft merino sock yarn.

It's as soft as butter, as squidgy as marshmallow, and as warm as toast - so I guess that's a Toasty Buttered Marshmallow!

The wristies to go with it are currently on the needles - they include some Regia sock yarn and Rowan Kid Silk Haze too. I'll probably put the set on Etsy when it's finished.

The hardest part of this was finding a button that I liked for it - why is that always the case? Any recommendations for really good button websites would be greatly appreciated!

The other news for today concerns my health again - the tachycardia has cleared up and I'm off the beta-blockers, but now I have shingles on my back. It's rather an extreme way of getting more knititng time don't you think?!

3 comments:

Jules said...

That collar is really gorgeous!

Glad to hear the tachycardia has cleared up - hope you're feeling completely better soon!

confiance said...

This is rather out of the blue, but I'm trying to find the September 2006 edition of the Sandra Knitting magazine. There's a lacey wrap sweater in there that I really want to knit and I can't seem to find a copy of that magazine!

Any chance you'd be willing to copy those pages and/or sell the magazine to me? I'll pay postage and a little bit extra!

Anonymous said...

Oh, goodness, look after yourself with the shingles and take time to recover. I know you probably don't feel 'ill', but take it from me - it really knocks the stuffing out of you. And if you don't take time to recover, chronic fatigue is a very real risk. :( That collar, on the other hand, is *beeee-youtiful*! I wish we had touch-o-vision, because I just want to pet it...