So when i heard that i could earn a Brown Owl Badge for knitting i dug out my knitting needles and unraveled a long abandoned few rows and set to knitting this tea cosyHowever i hadnt really taken into account how much wool i had on hand. I was also a bit rusty when it came to my tension being too tight. So combined with many rows spent trying to remember what purl stitch was i ended up with a 2/3 sized tea cosy that was too wide for my small tea pots but too short for a full size tea pot.
So it just wasnt going to work as a tea cosy and i unraveled it all to start again for the 2nd time.
I started quite well and after a few rows of purl i realised it was curling under and remembered the need for knit1/purl1 to create ribbing. However i was a bit distracted and the time and couldn't always recall if i'd knitted one or purled one so there were a few rows of half-arsed ribbing. I then realised that i had been a bit carried away with casting on and after a few rows i could see that it was going to be too wide for a tea-cosy.
With a bit of help from my Meet Me At Mikes Crafy Projects book i casted off a few stiches and ended up with those interesting curly bits. Then the more i knitted the more i thought that it just isnt going to be a good tea-cosy but it will make a fun scarf.
So i've got enough wool to make purple/red/chartreuse scarf that will have a few curly bits as i cast off but i'm making decent progress to be able to wear it this winter.
Oh, so you rave about the lip gloss Nicky got you but no mention of thanks to moi for the Meet Me at Mike's book?? huh, huh :)
aw miss cath you need to read down further http://seriouslydelusional.blogspot.com/2009/04/busy-happy-b-days.html :)