Beaded Shawl

Finished! My first beaded shawl & even though I haven't blocked it yet I love it. Love the way the beads catch the light, lovely....

Our local wool shop is out of action because of the floods, so we went to Keswick today & bought a stash of DK wool to make some corsages with, some colours are for orders for friends & others are maybe for my Etsy shop, when I finally get it up & running....

Also bought some sock yarn, solid grey for husband & a multi-purpley one for me.

Not enough hours in the day.....

Happy New Year!

Well, Christmas is over for another year & we're into 2010. I'm always grateful to see the back of the old year & on with the new......

I don't like new year's resolutions as it just sets you up to fail, & they're always the same;
lose more weight,
exercise more,
etc, etc
although one year I did make a resolution to go away somewhere every month of the year, that was a good one, if expensive & don't think I made it through the whole year!

However, this year I want to finish all the projects I've got on the go before starting new ones, actually, that's about to go out the window already as I'm learning how to felt next week! But generally speaking, I WILL TRY & FINISH THINGS BEFORE I START SOMETHING NEW....

I did finish the other sock, bit tight around the top as I usually cast on so loosely I didn't want my socks falling down, so I cast on quite tightly, hopefully they'll loosen a bit. Enjoyed making them, in a masochistic sort of way, will definitely have a go at some more exciting designs, even the husband wants a pair!

I need to finish my beaded shawl, only 5 rows to go....

Well it's official, I'm now on Etsy & Blogger as Beside The Beck.

Dreadful play on words, as my nearest & dearest call me Beck & we live close to a beck, here in Cumbria. Although a raging torrent would be a better description over the last few days, this is what it looked like at the weekend. Lots of our neighbours have been flooded with many roads closed & bridges lost or too damaged to use, all incredibly sad.

I'm knitting another shawl, but this time with beads in the laceweight linen from K1 Yarns in Edinburgh, it's the first time I've ever knitted with beads & I absolutely love the effect, I can see I'll be adding beads to everything. Although I couldn't get a crochet needle fine enough to thread through the beads to attach them, so have threaded them onto the yarn & am knitting them in as I go, very fiddly & not awfully sure if they'll stay where I put them, only time will tell!