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Saturday 28 April 2012

Day 6: Improving Your Skillset (3KCBWDAY6)

Last year, I set myself two modest targets. One was to try colourwork using Eskimimi's Snowbaby Hat, which I have done and double done. I am happy with my hat and wear it whenever I can, and I like the feeling of achieving targets. The other was to make a hedgehog, which I have not done, and I feel a little guilty about this. My reason is that I should not buy yarn for so small a project, but use the ends of something I have made already, and I have not knitted anything brown yet. I may just have to bite the bullet and buy, but first I might raid my mum's yarn stash.

In general, I feel like I have progressed as a knitter in the past year. Not only stranded colourwork, but garments, complex lace, and socks. All excellent steps on the road to being Expert Knitter. A good year by my standards, and given that I have only been knitting 2.5 years I think I'm making some pretty complex stuff and challenging myself.

But what should me next steps be? I do want to try intarsia, to continue the colour work thing as I enjoyed stranded so much. The other thing I want to try (again) is crochet - I have the yarn for a ripple blanket a lot like this one (ravelry link), though my first endeavours were full of frustration and swearing. So those shall be my targets for before the next blog week - intarsia and crochet. And the hedgehog!

3 comments:

  1. You've done heaps this last year! Well done! Lots to learn in crochet and Intarsia - but, you'll end up with some lovely bits and pieces!

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  2. I love that ripple blanket! It looks so cheerful.. maybe I'll have to make one and then ban the cats from ever going near it. (Like that would happen!)

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  3. Hi Jen,
    I may have 20g(ish) of DB cashmerino in dark brown going spare after the blanket is finished you can use for hedgehog. Failing that I have dark brown acrylic DK in my stash you can use :-) x Biggbird x

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