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As expected, I didn’t make it to the Winter Market, and later heard it was only happening on Saturday; Friday was cancelled. Then followed the whitest and coldest of White Christmases I can remember here. The whole country still struggles to repair leaks of frozen pipes. Luckily none at our place. And no, I didn’t and won’t upload snowy pictures. Here’s one of my resolutions and wishes for the

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... is the little book "Leaves", full of our poems. It will be on sale in the Poets' Corner at the Winter Market in the Dock in Carrick on Shannon this coming Friday, 5 to 9 pm and Saturday 12 to 5 pm.Mind you, I may not make it myself, and that annoys me, but the weather forecast looks bad, and I fear we will be housebound again. Yet those who can access Carrick : There will be

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My yarn has arrived. I’m again so pleased with it and surprised how great it turned out despite the fact that I hadn’t sorted the fleeces as thoroughly as last year. It has a more creamy white than last year. I suppose, as with wine, every year’s crop is different. I also had ordered 2 kg scoured and carded only, to see how that feels, and to do a bit of spinning myself. And I got 4 kg dyed in a

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I shortly mentioned the little tapestries I knitted earlier here. All of them incorporate a heart, or several. Knitting them was a reaction to reading the papers, and to current politics reported by them, which made me sick. Economy, finance, budget seemed to be the only things important, while at the same time what is dearest to people is neglected. It seemed that people don't count other than

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for spinning to the Natural Fibre Company. It's already yarn by now, but some of it awaits dyeing. When that's done it will be sent home.Last year I had a link to pictures of the processing on their website. Now there's a video. You can find it here:http://www.thenaturalfibre.co.uk/media-centre/video3Have a look!And well, I'm back knitting. Here's a picture of some of the things I have on my

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We had indeed, as promised, some Indian Summer days recently. The weather is dry since over a week, with some cool nights. But even when the sun is out my garden doesn’t get much of it. The sun is so low now that the old trees around the garden let it in only for a few hours in the afternoon.This year we had a kestrel pair breeding in one of these nests:At this time of the year I like to walk

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I know I didn’t write a word here for more than four weeks or so.I admit I didn’t knit anything for the same amount of time.First I was occupied with decluttering my house, then I had my mum and brother visiting, which was great and an intense time that doesn’t happen too often.I also did take part in the “Landing in Leitrim” poetry workshop in the Dock in Carrick on Shannon. This was a great

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Anyone knows the creature that carries this fleece?I found several ones in my garden, and when I showed one to my husband he said it looks like a tiny shrivelled up mouse:Opening it up for a post mortem revealed what can be seen in the next pictures.Well, "post mortem" is certainly not the right expression. It can still reproduce.

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Yesterday we had summer, a beautiful "Sunday". July - and August so far - were dull and often autumn-like. July was reported as one of the wettest on record in Ireland. It didn't feel like that here, there wasn't such large amount of rain, but it was constantly damp without much sun.But we wouldn't complain, we are happy not to suffer from weather extremes as people do in other countries like

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No this is not a new, or rare sheep breed, but a German magazine I’ve been reading for many, many years. Its subtitle describes its contents: herbs, textiles, nature.It is the brain child of Erdmute Marciniak, who I’ve never met, but who lives not too far from where I did before I left Germany. She is the responsible producer, editor and coordinator of Lavendelschaf.The magazine is published four

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I met one of the tadpoles again today. It hopped out of the vegetation surrounding the pond, disturbed by me when I was approaching the pond; hopped back into it and then climbed a leaf of the water lily – as a tiny little froglet 3 cm in size, if at all!It was a joyous moment meeting the little creature and seeing it has progressed to this stage. There is similar joy when I go out the door at

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There are three beds with wild strawberries in the garden. They were growing wild at ditches here initially, then young plants emerged in the garden. When we built the tunnel several years ago they were planted along one side of it. Meanwhile they’ve got tired there and wandered to the adjacent bed, where they are now covering the ground around the beans, and will fruit well next year. The same

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfoByYLSBY8

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Some days ago I hurried into the garden to get lettuce for dinner. I wasn’t that far from the bird in the pictures below when I noticed it. It looked at me, but was busy plucking another bird and didn’t fly away despite my approach in a hurrying gait. I walked slowly backwards and watched it from inside the house.Then I thought I might get a picture, as it was so concentrated on its activity. So

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We are into July and the weather has turned cooler with some rain and lots of wind - after a fabulous June which was the hottest, driest and sunniest in 40 years or so.I’m knitting small tapestries. There are still pattern and ornament in them, but after the period with the structural colour patterns and ongoing “percolation” of various threads and bits and pieces in my mind I feel drawn to do

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When I found out last year that Ryan Air flies to Memmningen, where I was born, and more precisely to Memmingerberg, where I spent my first two years and had visited my grandparents often later, I decided to fly there next time I go to Germany, and I asked my Mum and brother to spend two days there with me to visit old places. These turned out to be great two days, with beautiful weather. We all

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It’s raining for the second day, after five months of hardly any rain. The authorities ask us to not spend water unnecessarily. The forecast is for warm and dry weather again. That would be nice. I hope we will be spared a wet summer this year. Then again, we don’t want drought either. Who knows with all the recent weather extremes.Anyway, ten days ago I used some water to create a small little

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(A Stitch a Day 15th to 22nd May)In Code Patterns I had explained how to knit a gene sequence or create patterns following another code. Please go there to learn the basics of it.Four elements make up this code, but today I show patterns you get when you use only two of them constantly.The first three patterns were knitted according to the single chart which I show again here: For the pattern at

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I wouldn’t have thought that it's already two months since my last post here.It seems having finally got the National Broadband didn’t inspire me to write. It’s probably the time of the year when the real world is so alive again that makes the digital world less appealing.I just remembered that last year I missed some Stitches a Day in May, and I still have to fill them in. Some will follow in

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Spring started Saturday a week ago, since last night we have summertime, and next weekend we’ll have Easter.While the daffodils started flowering and the ground is dryer than commonly at this time of the year, there is not much grass growth nor do shrubs and trees show definite signs of new life yet. Apart from the many birds there, which are active and vocal, but still need to be fed.I thought I

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... of EU citizens can force the EU commission to listen to them on a specific issue and to take action accordingly.Thus, if you are concerned about GMOs, and especially about the growing of GM crops, sign the petition here, and ask others to do the same.The situation is: When the EU has approved a GM crop to be grown in the EU, like it did recently for the first time since 12 years, for the

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The tablet-weaving pattern used for the scarf in my last post is a traditional Finnish pattern, and actually quite complicated to weave on cards.There is however another easy method to vary patterns in tablet weaving. Commonly you turn the bundle of cards in one direction several times, inserting weft after each turn; then you turn it back in the other direction for the same amount of times for a

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Now – as promised – here’s my description of the way I do double knitting, which I used to knit the pattern from the tablet-weaving book. I used my own yarn, and two needles size 4mm.In double knitting you simultaneously knit two layers of fabric. They can be separate layers or intersect, like in this example, where the same pattern appears on front and back of the work piece, with colours

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CLEAN (Cavan Leitrim Environmental Awareness Network), of which I am a member, has released the following press release. I am delighted with the outcome of this high court case - and many thanks to those members who worked hardest on it.Why was this necessary?"On Thursday the 18th February the President of the High Court Mr.Justice Nicholas Kearns made comprehensive orders in favour of CLEAN Ltd.

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Since the great thaw we had quite nice and mainly dry weather. A few frosty nights, but some days actually felt like spring, when the birds did sing.I was, and am, at several things in knitting, that’s why I didn’t write much here. Two jumpers, one is finished.Knitters may know that it is difficult to get back to a project and finish it in the spirit that initially made you start it when you got

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I’m not sure, but I feel that it is possible that Irish and other knitters not knitting the “continental” way may find the movement of yarn when slipping stitches in two different ways, together with changing between knit and purl stitches, more confusing, because their working yarn is already on the move in “wrapping”.In any case:Here are two exercises that may help all knitters to get used to

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It started thawing last night, but ice was, and still is, the most prominent feature of this extraordinary cold period here this winter, lasting more than three weeks now.Well, not so prominent when it was snowed over again, making it even more dangerous.Today there was rain also, and if this would freeze again, we’d have more ice.The ground is still hard frozen. It consists of mainly water

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I didn’t forget that there is still a gap to fill in A Stitch a Day for these days. I felt I take the occasion to introduce code knitting, which makes a huge amount of colour patterns possible.Since some time I had wondered whether I could use a gene sequence to create a pattern with my technique, or vice versa, depict a gene sequence with it. I didn’t want to copy the DNA shape, rather translate

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The world was predominantly white this morning.I felt it was a good day to take the Leitrimers out for a photo shot.When I was dyeing with the onion skins recently I felt the yellow and green I got are Leitrim colours. I think they are, from GAA flags, and letters I got from Leitrim Country Council. So I decided I make two Leitrimers with that yarn.Here they are:Wishing all of you a happy

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Ever taken flight because of a flight?Silly me. I did yesterday evening.I had been knitting in the kitchen when suddenly from the corner of my eye I felt I saw something flying there. My first reaction was to question this perception. Apart from an odd fly there’s hardly anything flying around in kitchens at this time of the year, is there?Then I saw it again. I knew it wasn’t a bird. It looked

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Someone asked at the last knitaholics meeting how I dye with onionskins. I thought I write a post about it.It’s fairly certain that we can’t meet next time at the usual place, as the Cineplex was flooded, like a lot else in and around Carrick-on-Shannon, and Ireland indeed. Here are pictures showing the extent of the Carrick floods.But back to the onionskins:First you have to collect them, and

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part of the flock in their surroundingsSOURCEOur sheep are pets. A pet is an animal that may look like many others of its kind, but is special to you - as you are special to it. Over time you know each other well. You get to know the individual personalities of your pets. I don’t think that these personalities are just imagined by pet owners. They are as real as the personalities of human beings

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I’ve told readers to slip stitches purl-wise, or in a manner as if you intend to purl them. I took over these expressions from instructions for other slip-stitch knitting, e.g. mosaic knitting.I’ve come to think about this. It would probably be better if I just say: Slip stitches as if you would move them from one needle to another. I think every knitter will have done this at some stage?And if

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…of yarn (24 kg) spun for me by the Natural Fibre Company from my sheep’s fleeces arrived here a week ago.It must be told here at least.Initially I had planned to write a long post about how this old dream finally became reality, but this will have to be postponed, because at the moment I’m just too eager to actually work with the yarn and enjoy exploring it.And no, it’s of course not merino soft

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Introduction part oneIntroduction part twoIntroduction part three Exercises for a start

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This jumper should fit any child of 8 years+ for some time, as it has good elasticity. It can be made fully reversible. Of course it can be made in three colours of your own choice.To achieve reversibility, please also look at my posts about weaving-in and seams. If you can decide which side you want on the outside all the time, then you can neglect these posts, and the Kw-stitches for weaving-in

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…I’ve done a few more projects with other yarns. I still try pattern variations in one piece, so this scarf is probably too patterned, but one can imagine how a scarf done in one of the colour patterns alone would look like.I used cheap chunky yarn from Lidl. The main aim was to see how the colour patterns come out with such thick yarns.Here is one colour sequence shown in detail:I also made two

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I thought I should also show the way I make seams.With edge stitches as indicated in the charts it makes a flat seam that can be used in other types of knitting as well. (I always use this type of edge stitches and seaming in flat knitting indeed.)For projects where I use my colour patterns I find seaming this way especially useful, because - together with the extra stitches for weaving in which

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It can be annoying – or even impossible – with these patterns to cross two or three threads in a satisfactory way at the edge, especially where unused threads have to be carried up for several rows.I’ve now found that the best way to maintain a nice flow of knitting and to get a neat edge at the same time is adding after the edge stitch, and before the pattern stitches, an extra stitch for “

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September made something good on the disappointing summer, with mostly dry weather and several lovely Indian summer days under strikingly blue skies. Why is it called “Indian summer”? The expression in German is Altweibersommer” (old women’s summer) which is associated with the spider webs that you find everywhere at this time in the mornings. It is said that "weiber" didn''t really mean women in

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A year has passed since I started A Stitch a Day. There are a few gaps still to fill in, but all in all I’ve kept my promise.There is still a lot to explore, but I can go about it in a more relaxed way now.What I’m looking forward to now is receiving the yarn from the spinning mill they produced from my own sheep’s fleeces. More about that when the yarn will finally have arrived.These are the

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The R, which I introduced in my previous post, is used in the chart for these patterns again. They make actually quite easy knitting, because stitches change only in every fourth row, and in the next three rows are knitted as they appear.

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In the chart for these pattern below you see the usual numbers of rows given for the pattern at the bottom. If you look at the pattern second from top you might recognise that it is a vertical enlargement of the pattern at the bottom. It indeed appears when each of the two pairs of rows from the bottom fabric are knitted twice in the same colour.As there will come up some patterns where pairs of

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Here are seven versions of a new fabric. It is actually easy to knit stitch-wise: The flat version has only two different pairs of rows. When knitting in the round only two different rows have to to be repeated.

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These are the last three colour versions I'm showing for the latest fabric:

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These are more colour versions that are possible with the current fabric:

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I met another visitor yesterday again. He wore a golden costume.Not on my flowers, but in the poly tunnel. I had met him before about two months ago, when I had removed some old beetroot plants that were full of holes, caused by slugs I had thought, because I had found some of these on the plants before. But when I pulled the plants out, some green caterpillars fell off them as well.With this

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Below are three more variations for the latest fabric.

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Summer this year?After an astonishingly dry and nice March, an April quite as you would expect, and an excessively rainy May – when the hawthorn hesitated to go into flower but couldn’t avoid finally to blossom in that rainy period, which resulted in a much lesser amount of berries than last year – we welcomed Summer for his stay of two and a half weeks or so in early June. He must have been

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This is a further new fabric. The first colour versions for it are shown today. More to follow.

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An easy chart makes these simple small patterns:

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I can't resist posting a link to this here."And the bride wore white - long, curly white strands of wool.Louise Fairburn, who is an award-winning sheep breeder, decided to get married in a fleece from her own flock." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1205007/Shepherdess-bride-marries-stunning-dress-wool-flock.html#ixzz0ONcEjkPAand see the pictures.

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Here is a new fabric. Unfortunately I only tried these three colour sequences so far. Others could be interesting as well. (Don't know why the text is underlined today...)

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Here are six colour versions of a new fabric. The sequence of knitting the rows of the chart is one I haven't used so far.

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Here is for a change a stitch chart that gives no symmetrical patterns, but the pattern elements are arranged at an angle, which results in a slanting appearance. Six colour versions are shown below.

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We are still with the same fabric here:

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Here are three more versions of the current fabric:

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This is the same fabric as in the last post. It's a long time since I've shown a one colour version, so I've included one below.

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I'm going to stick with this new fabric for a while now. These are results of the first colour sequences. More will follow in the next days.

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Did I knit any projects recently? I did in fact.With the yarns from Kerry Woollen Mills I made some hand puppets. I’m always seeking projects where both sides of the fabric can show, and I felt hand puppets that can be turned inside out might be an idea, so I have done some experiments on them. I'm not quite happy with the heads yet, but problem is when I've done one I can't remember exactly how

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Here is another fabric, with two colours used for the three stitch patterns shown:

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Another new fabric here, again showing three colour variations:

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Here is a further new fabric, with the results of three colour sequences shown:

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Here is another new fabric. Three variations in dark and light colours only are shown:

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Here is a new fabric, with three colour versions shown:

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This fabric has a knobbly texture on one side. Note also that no stitches are knitted or purled in two rows. Stitches in these are only slipped. Therefore the fabric has only limited horizontal elasticity.

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These are three further colour versions for the latest fabric:

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This fabric requires more stitches in one repeat than others so far, so I've left out the selvage stitches in the chart for better clarity. Treat selvages as usual (see other charts and introduction).

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This is again a new fabric that makes little boxes in some colour versions:

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A further new fabric - shown in three colour variations here:

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Here is a new fabric again. The effects of three colour sequences are shown.

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Please find three colour versions of another new fabric here:

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Here are three versions of a new fabric:

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These are three further colour versions of the current fabric:

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These are the first three versions of a new fabric.

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These will be the three final versions I show here for the current fabric:

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The wood pidgin has a nest in the elder bush above the table and chairs in our garden. We saw the pair building the nest a few weeks ago. Since then one only sees tail feathers peeping out of it, when one looks up. But at around this time of the day there's some activity, and we always meet a wood pidgin at the sheep troughs when feeding - as well as the pheasant - picking up what has fallen on

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Here are three more colour sequences for this fabric:

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No, it wasn't good weather that kept me from posting. We have a rather wet May indeed.I just felt I need to give myself some free time without feeling the duty to post for a while. I also honestly was somewhat annoyed with my slow dial up connection and the time it takes to upload the pictures, not being able to look at other sites in the meantime. I'm now trying to use collages again. Lets see

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These are the last two versions for the current fabric. The second pattern appears on both sides of the fabric.

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This is still the same fabric. Here are three more versions:

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Here are three more colour versions for the current fabric:

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The same fabric as yesterday here, with a new colour sequence. Again the same colour pattern emerges on both sides.

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Here is a new stitch chart with the results of two colour sequences for it. With the first the same colour pattern appears on both sides of the fabric.

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The chart for these three variations is easily followed, with just 4 stitches and 6 rows to be repeated for the fabric. Here are three colour variations:

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Here are three versions of a new fabric that is characterised by some amount of relief.

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This is still a version of the current stitch pattern, in another 3-colour version:

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It isn’t easy to source yarn grown on Irish sheep. So I was quite happy when I had made contact with Kerry Woollen Mills to find that their woollen knitting yarn, which they sell via their website, is a blend of Irish and New Zealand wool. (I actually had contacted them to ask if they could spin my own sheep’s fleeces, they need at least a batch of 2000 kg, however.)But here is the best news:

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These are two 3-colour versions of the current fabric:

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Here are four colour versions of a new fabric:

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This is another colour version of yesterday's fabric:

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Here is a new fabric with good elasticity.

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Yesterday I made my first rhubarb cake this year. Whilst we have wet and windy weather, with the occasional hail storms, since ten days or so, Easter Sunday afternoon was fine and we could have coffee and the cake outside.It is bed-watching time, which is nothing obscene, but is the time when you watch vegetable and flowerbeds, observing what you have sown to appear and start growing, and trying

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This is a further version for yesterdays fabric:

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These are three versions of a new fabric. It is fairly voluminous, and has little knobs on one side.

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This will be the last pattern for the current fabric.

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We are back to two colours here, for still the same fabric:

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Here is a further version of this fabric:

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Three colours again here:

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Here is a three-colour version for the same fabric:

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