Girasole

Yesterday I finally finished a project, after two weeks of strugling with it. Girasole (aka sofa’s warmer – my daughter came up with that name). I spun those yarns of February challenge with this project in mind. It was easy enough to knit while watching TV but still it didn’t go as smoothly as it could have. It was quite a stashbuster, requiring more yarn than I planned. Near the end I made a huge mistake which I noticed after 5 rows (=3200 stitches) – luckily I managed to repair it without frogging all of it! And finally, when I was 20/640 from finishing the edge, I ran out of yarn. That wasn’t funny at all. I’m afraid to look at a mirror again, I’m sure there’s a whole bunch of grey hair growing because of this project.
But hey, those pictures you’re waiting right?

At this point I was slightly annoyed…

I finished those last 20 stitches with different yarn (wich I spun for February’s spinningchallenge: there wasn’t enough of it to made the border, that’s why I used that another one here)

In this picture you can see (if you look closely), the difference between yarns spun during my ”career” as a spinner. From bottom to top: 3 pattern repeats made of the yarns I spun for the challenge, next 2 repeats: 2nd year and the white border: 3rd year as a spinner. (7th year with this wonderfull hobby started now in the beginning of February.)