i want one of those. please.

i've been pattern dreaming... following yesterday's knitty and magknits pattern explosion, here are some more things that i just HAVE to knit...

kim hargeaves' tender: http://www.kimhargreaves.co.uk/acatalog/TENDER.html
it's such a sweet, pretty cardigan. can i have it please?

and maybe the new rowan magazine too which looks bursting with fun patterns. only now i can't help but think of it as a quarter of tender, and i know where i would rather spend the money...

ok, time to stop window shopping, today i thought i might try and cast on for some socks...
x

just a quick hello...

so, due to some very interesting stuff going on at work, it has been one hell of a week... enough to mean that i didn't get to go knitting on tuesday as i had planned to the stitch n bitch meeting. but instead me and my knitting friend at work sat in a pub with some other colleagues and did stitch n bitch A LOT. we just didn't think it was fair to impose that on the wider world. as a result of this and much more knitting in public, particularly on the tube, my so-called scarf has grown a lot and it's nearly there. i probably have one more ball to knit. i really love it! but am worrying because it seems to be getting a bit warmer every day and i don't want it to get so warm that it doesn't justify the scarf!

i have also given audrey a couple of outings and i love her! i think that the yarn might pile a little, but that's ok. i think i'll get a lot of wear out of her and am thinking of knitting some more in other colours. that seems like a waste of knitting time, but...

has everyone checked out the new knitty patterns? i'm liking waffle a lot but i know the low neck line wouldn't suit me and sadly i'm not at the point where i would know where to start fixing this. on magknits, i'm also loving tori. you may start to see a pattern emerging in my current knitting tastes... the peekaboo mittens are very cute too. all these inspiring designers, i'd love to be able to design my own things...

right, time to go start having a weekend!
have a happy one, everyone
becks xx

finally! an fo!

i was beginning to worry that i wouldn't get an fo in january! but here i am, just in time...

world, meet audrey...

'hi everyone. this is a bad photo of me, please don't judge me on it. i am actually a deep, lucious red colour, silky soft and lovely. becks is feeling very pleased with herself because of me, but don't tell her i've actually turned out so well because the yarn is a dream to work with and the pattern is perfect. i don't want to burst her bubble...'

this photo shows off the colour much better, and also the neat armhole edging and the cute ribbing at the neck. isn't she lovely? i think so... : )

very happy with my first FO of the year. i started her just before christmas, knit the first side before new year and finished the front a couple of weeks ago. yesterday i woke up early and didn't shower until 2pm so that i could get her done. hoorah. i will wear her today when i go tap shoe shopping, which is a whole other story...

this is my next fo for the year, not even half way yet. my so-called scarf is my on-the-tube-at-a-stitch-n-bitch-and-pretty-much-anywhere project. i'm loving it all. the yarn, the colour and the fab stitch pattern that makes me look sooooo much cleverer than i actually am.

ok, now, those tap shoes...

see you later!

becks

stitch n bitch experiences

i did it! i finally got out there and knitted with other knitters, firstly in a place where knitters aren't really meant to be, and then where they are.

the first night i met the london stitch n bitch group on the south bank. there were about 50 of us sat happily knitting away, passing the evening. i went with my firsnd kate and we met a lovely girl called nicola and had a fun night. it was slightly surreal and i think many of the people going to see that night's musical performance at the south bank found it slightly odd, but i like to think we were entertaining. it was certainly a good night though - cheap, fun, and relaxing with like-minded people. a good start to social knitting! i will be joining them again.

then the next night i went with some other people i'd that i'd never met and others i had to i knit london. i blogged about this a few posts ago and was happy to get the invite to go as it was really the kick up the bum i needed. what a great place! a cosy little knitting shop in south london. not too fancy, with (you won't believe this) affordable yarn! and some pretty special stuff too, including some silk beaded yarn and lantern moon needles that i just don't know how i resisted. again it was quite full, less people than the other but a much smaller space. everyone was very friendly and the shop owner didn't seem to mind at all that we were spilled all over his floor, or that i was knitting something i had brought along and hadn't paid anything, or that one of the boys there was actually doing needlepoint and not knitting at all. wonderful. i'll be going back there too.

oh. and i started my scarf. i'll post photos at the weekend. i'd call that a success.

yey.

love becks

ps any of you well travelled bloggers ever been to dubrovnik in croatia? i've just booked flights and now need a hotel! recommendations GREATLY appreciated.

a lurker...

last week i went to john lewis, and the project is yet to come out of the carrier bag. it is a lurker. waiting for the right moment to emerge. that moment is tomorrow when i FINALLY go to my first stitch n bitch! there i will be starting my so called scarf, something on my one day list for a lonnnnnng time. and now i'm finally making it. i love that when someone writes a pattern it just waits there for you... until the time is right and the yarn is right and the place is right. i'll be knitting it in debbie bliss' soho. but not in soho. oh no. on the south bank. if you'll be there tomorrow, say hello!!!!! (i'llbe the one in a tangle of red yarn...)
becks x

stitch n bitch groups

ohhhhhhhhhh... i just got last week's time out (i have subscription issues, don't get me started...) and i saw there was a sttch n bitch meeting at waterstone's piccadilly! i got all excited! and then realised it was last thursday and looks like it was a one off event : (
did anyone go? was it fun? i would have liked to go, i'd love to go to one but it needs to be central and evening, i often can't get anywhere till 7pm and the liberty one starts at 5pm... not ideal... i just joined this mailing list but please do give me a shout if anyone else knows of one - or if there are plans to meet again at waterstone's. knitting in my favourite shop? sounds like HEAVEN!
becks x

photos now added!

ok, so i'm not pleased that i've had to upgrade and have a google account to be able to upload photos but it seems to be the only way. so i caved. and now my blog is interesting again! check out my photos in the last two posts below. at last.
happy weekend everyone!
x