Tag: wwkip

K is for Knitting in Public

So, today was World Wide Knit in Public Day (or at least, the start of WWKIP week) for 2010.  We had a little meet up and knit in Princes Park in Eastbourne to mark the event – there were just four of us there in the end, but we had a good time.  Or I did, anyway.  I hope everyone else did!

Knitting in Public, Princes Park, Eastbourne

We were there from 11am to 3pm, and as well as getting on with knitting and crochet of our own, the heel section of BigSock was cast on!  A mere 500 stitches at its narrowest point, should be a doddle.  Hah!

Becks casting on BigSock heel

Of course, I didn’t get any of my jumper done… and what I did get knitted of my clapotis is probably going to have to be ripped back because I seem to have gained (or lost) a stitch somewhere!  I’m out one, anyway.  Oh well.

J is for Jumper

I’m not very good at knitting jumpers and cardigans.  Or at least, I’ve knitted them, but them completely failed to sew them up in two cases, and in other cases I’ve just not got very far on the knitting itself.  I do keep seeing patterns I like, but frequently they’re in the American ‘worsted’ weight, which is half way between the DK and aran weights more commonly available here… which leads to so much indecision on what would be best to know them in that I never get started at all!  I don’t know, it’s all terribly stressful ;-)

What I do want to finally finally do (although I’ve been saying this for some time) is get those two that I’ve got all the knitted pieces for, sewn up and finished.  Those are my “Menace Jumper” and a big chunky cardigan from a Sirdar pattern.  That one’s going to be cosy come winter, assuming it still fits me!  It has been a while since I started knitting it, after all.  Like, what, four years?  Whoops!  Maybe I should take one of them with me tomorrow to World Wide Knit In Public Day – if it’s going to be fine, I’ll have space to spread out more.  It could be a plan!  I’ll let you know how it goes in tomorrow’s post.