Purlessence has received a bumper crop of rather lovely cotton double knitting yarns and knitting patterns. The first rather lovely yarn is Sirdar's Summer stripes, there is rather good yardage on all the cotton dk yarn and this one is no exception. There are very nice patterns available and I'm thinking long and hard about knitting 9422 in the lemony shades.
Of course being a rather fun loving larger lady there never seems to be patterns that particularly take my fancy. I have tried on many occasions to start a jumper or cardie, I knit the back and I normally get to about the cast off for arms part of the pattern hold it up and think whoa that is never gonna fit and rip the yarn back and make something exciting out of the rip back and left over balls of yarn.
This week I will be challenging this fear of all things knitting for myself and I have casted on a rather lovely cotton DK yarn from the Classique range by Stylecraft. Thinking that Lime green yarn would make me stand out a little too much I have opted for Nocturne which would be classed by normal people as dark blue but I think it is more petrol blue. I'm really not too sure that my cardie will be finished in 8 balls of the wonder yarn I will have to wait and see.
Paula has cast on the same pattern but ever so slightly smaller in the lime green but using pearl by stylecraft.
Dulcie is feel a little under the weather so I hope that she will feel a whole lot better soon.
Signing off for now
Moira Ann x
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