Bits and Pieces

I am currently an attractive picture of ill health. The BF passed his Man Flu to me over the weekend and my face has been leaking since Sunday - a euphemism for much snot. Of course, if it was just a bit of cold, I'd have probably gone to work but every time I stand up I feel dizzy... so I'm not exactly going to be a safe driver.

To show how ill I really am... I haven't been able to knit! Or read a book, so it hasn't been fun.

Enough whinging.

Before I became lurgified, I finished off the gloves for Jeanette, Peter and Diane - three lovely people at work.



I finally got around to adding a purple trim to these 'Left for Lilacs'. You can only just see the lilac yarn around the wrist of the glove on the right ('ironic' positioning for the picture).



The more astute observer will realise that these are just the "TSF" gloves with a lilac trim - around only one of them. My best friend Debbie has a shockingly bad sense of direction... this is just an attempt to help her tell her left from her right... when she's driving.

I also rattled off a strawberry hat for a workmate's baby - just a good way of using up yarn from the Dreaded Box of Oddballs and Orphans.



Hasn't really made a dent in the collection but this baby blanket might.



I think this is going to use two balls of "Baby Ull" in lemon (Dale of Norway") and two balls of "Sirdar - Cotton DK" in turquoise. I'm not sure how clear this photograph is but this is a diagonally striped blanket.

Needles: 3mm (oh, yes, it's going to take a while)

Pattern: Dead easy Fairisle - i.e. couple of glasses of wine and it's still possible to do.

The main part of the blanket is knit in stocking stitch and is bordered with a moss stitch edging.

CO 150 stitches - five rows of moss stitch in lemon
Row 6 - Moss stitch 5 stitches in lemon then join the turquoise yarn...
...Knit 140 stitches in alternate colours for all of the stitches i.e. turquoise, lemon,
turquoise, lemon, etc...
...until there are five stitches remaining - moss stitch in lemon to the end.
Row 7 - Moss stitch 5 stitches in lemon, then purl the alternating colour pattern again.

Continue until you run out of yarn, but make sure to leave enough lemon yarn to finish with five rows of moss stitch.