August knitting I

Some knitting did get done in August - and was blocked - just not blogged. Both were designs by Melanie Gibbons





First up, Hanami - in a not-exactly-cherry-blossom colour. I was puzzling over this one - I wanted to make a birthday stole for my mother, but she's not a pastel person. Then I noticed the pierced-wood wastebasket by the PC, and wondered if it would look like that at one end,
and like lotus-wood at the other...



I was pleased with the results, anyway! The only modification I made was right at the end - somehow the frill didn't feel extreme enough to me, so I did an extra set of increases to give 4 times the original number of stitches, and beaded the cast-off. You can just about see that here, but it's pretty subtle.

I did have one small disaster - half-an-hour into blocking really isn't the time to find that dropped K2tog a couple of hundred rows back!!

But ten minutes with a crochet hook and some judicious darning have rendered it almost invisible...