Bollywood is off the needles

and I am so happy to have finished it. It was a nice knit even if I did stuff it up on the very second row and didn't read the pattern properly (always a problem with me) and have 2 splines on my shawl, but it all worked out well. I did knit an extra 10 pattern repeats than what the pattern said as my plain knitting was a bit longer than intended by not doing the 2 splines, so I was only increasing 4 stitches on the increase row and not 6 stitches. I knit until near the end of the yarn then did the crochet cast off, very pretty.


I did finish another beanie the other night, just for a change of pace. I started the beanie for SNB last saturday as I wasn't sure how I would go knitting a lace pattern while trying to talk, listen, eat etc that we do at SNB, but I did pretty well at it and didn't make any mistakes and didn't need to take the beanie out and knit on it while there.


We will have a christening to go to on Easter Sunday, I found I had a knitted baby jumper just plain knitting in a varigated blue, white yarn, so I am doing a beanie to go with it, I may do some mittens and socks/bootees, but not sure yet.

Then my plan is to get onto knitting something for my grand-daugher, we are flying up to visit them in mid April and would like to have something done for her for winter. I got a pattern book by Zoe Mellor "adorable knits for tots" with some very nice things in it, so will probably do something from that book.

I have tried to contact Just Enough Faith in Sydney so we can organise to drop off the beanies for the homeless so they can give them out on their nightly food van. I haven't heard back and when I googled them, I found some stories of how the owner had been gambling the money (he had used his own money for many years to feed the homeless nightly) he had got from donations, and I don't think they are still going, the website is still there. I will have to look for another charity that will give all the beanies to the homeless in Sydney.