Christening Gown

It's all done. I got up at 6am this morning to sew up the side seams, thread through the ribbon and then pack it for the exhibition. I bundled up all my knitting and headed off to the Wollongong Old Court House to help set up for the exhibition this weekend, we were meeting at around 10am or so, I left around 3pm to to some things on the way home and then get ready to go back for the opening at 7pm. I was so tired when I arrived home, threw some dirty washing in the machine, and laid down for a bit. I was too tired to get myself ready and go to the opening, I am sure that everyone who attended had a wonderful time, they will really enjoy the exhibition. I will be away this weekend so won't make it back to see the exhibition while open. Hopefully Tianne will go over the weekend. I also forgot to buy a raffle ticket, you should have seen the lovely basket of yarn as the prize.

The Christening Gown was knitted with 2ply pure wool by Te Awa (New Zealand). It was lovely to knit, well after getting past the ball that had 5 knots that had to be ripped back to the edge of the row and tired off. I used organza ribbon which looked lovely. I have taken some photos quickly this morning, and if I am lucky one of the girls from SNB will take some photos this weekend and email them to me.

Another year goes by

Today (only coincidental) that it is my blogging anniversay, don't ask which one, I think a year?? could be two.

I have been knitting away on the pure wool 2ply Christening Gown, which I need to have finished by Wednesday, to be in the Wollongong Stitch N Bitch Annual Exhibition being held at the Old Wollongong Court House across from Belmore Basin (Harbour) in Wollongong on the weekend of 14 & 15 April.

Being the Easter Long, Long Weekend (4 days) I thought it would be good to be raining all weekend so I could knit, well so far so good we have had rain a few times on Good Friday and today is pretty much raining all day, see wishes can come true.

I knitted a fair bit on Thursday night, up till around midnight, then up again the next morning after a bit of a sleep in to knit more, something didn't go right on the pattern row , counted the stitches, yep they are right, looked at the previous few rows, yep they looked right. Kept knitting for about 3 hours and got heaps done (remember this is 2ply yarn, it grows really slow). Later in the day I picked up the knitting again, I had another hitch with the pattern row (3rd row of 4 row repeat), couldn't work it out, but when I held the gown up, pulled the patterns apart a bit to see, and there it was way way way back it would have been the second last row I knitted on the Thursday night, I didn't pattern the 3 x knit 2 togethers, bugger it, I felt ill. What will I do, I want to sell this for a lot of money at the exhibition, well I did the only thing I could do, I ripped it all out, way way way back to before where I finished on the Thursday night, got a very very fine needle and put the stitches back on, counted them a few times to make sure I had the 136 stitches needed. Then back to knitting, so another late night knitting, then up early this morning and now I am back to about 8 rows past where I was yesterday at lunchtime. I need to get back to it. The photo will show where I was at about 10am on Friday before about 2 more hours of knitting which was ripped back.