Three quick projects

February was a bust for finishing projects because I just wasn’t in any one place long enough to focus on anything. But March was a different story: in addition to the birthday gifts and jacket, I was also able to start and finish three things in just the last week.

One
I received my copy of Mother-Daughter Knits by Sally Melville and Caddy Melville-Ledbetter and loved several patterns, but settled on the easiest to start. Begun on Thursday and completed on Friday: the Reversible Tank—knit in KnitPicks five balls of Shine Worsted yarn, .

Two
It’s spring, but it’s still cool in the mornings so I need to wear a hat on our mostly-daily walks. I wanted a neutral hat, and found Foliage on knitty.com. Two hours later it was completed in time for the morning trek to Starbucks, out of one ball of Series M Cuzco Peruvian Highland Wool – a very old stash yarn.

Three
And finally (for the month), there’s the Drop Stitch Lace Tank from Fitted Knits: 25 Projects for the Fashionable Knitter by Stephanie Japel. A three-day project that knit up quickly from even older stash yarn – Sunbeam Cotton Classic, I picked up in London on our second trip which was sometime in the early nineties. I will make a comment about this pattern and book: the pattern was extremely easy, but the book/pattern editing was pretty bad. Be sure to check out the many corrections from the book at Grampyre Knits site before you start anything from this book.

On to my next knit project
I’ve started Elderflower skirt by Ruth Sørensen out of Crystal Palace Maizy that I found at Purlessence in Sunnyvale two years ago. I made the skirt last year our of another stash fingering yarn, but made it too large in the waist. This time, I took the time to take the knitting off the needles and measure. So foward ho!