Kiama Show Wins

Here are the photo's of the knitting I did for Kiama Show.

The baby dress in 3ply pure baby wool won 1st place.
The baby shawl in 2ply pure baby wool won 1st place.
The matinee jacket in 3ply pure baby wool at bottom won 2nd place.
The mauve 3 piece set didn't win anything, I think they want bonnet, bootees and matinee jacket as the set.
They are all knitted in Shepherd Pure BabyWool, it is really nice to knit with and looks great knitted up and you know how I love to knit with Australian wool, gotta get behind our yarn makers and farmers.

Kiama Show & Knitting section

Knitting in this house has been the main priority lately with having to finish items for Kiama Show which is this weekend.

During my lunch time today I walked over to the show to see how my knitting went. Pretty damn good I must say.

The Baby Shawl – 1st Prize
The 3 piece Baby Set – nothing (I am sure they like the old fashioned 3 piece set of bonnet, bootees and matinee jacket – I did the hat, jacket and long pants as my 3 piece set)
The Baby Dress – 1st Prize
The Matinee Jacket – 2nd Prize

Pictures of all the above to come (hopefully over the weekend)

Very happy with the results. But next year I will try to convert them to more modern baby wear with another modern 3 piece set and I will do an old fashioned one as well.

I am now on my ‘stash busting’ knitting, I have put most of it out on the floor and the plan is to go through it all, then look through patterns and pick a pattern for the yarn, and just keep on knitting.

I don’t have any other knitting projects that need doing at the moment, so the stash is the number 1 priority.

I have been back at work at week now, it hasn’t been too bad I guess, it has been extremely hot here the past few days, so it is nice to be in an air conditioned office during the heat. It doesn’t stop me knitting though, DH and I sit out on the front verandah of an early evening, have a chat while I knit, it is lovely until the sandflies decide that we taste pretty good to them. I need to get the aeroguard on us before going out at that time.

Grand-daughter is 6 months old next week, the time is going by so quick, it is just lovely having them living with us while she is so young, we get to spend time with her when we get home from work while they are cooking dinner. She is so cheeky. They are thinking about moving back to Sydney as there is more work there for #1 son. We will miss them, but it will be great to have a home to ourselves for a while and they need their own space too.

Back to knitting……………I am working on a baby jacket with hood, in a 3 x 3 moss stitch rib, that will get 3 balls of baby yarn out of the way. Just need to make the time to sort through yarn and patterns to match them up.

Wow 2009.....

and it is already the 3rd of January....a bit of a blure new year to now.

I have finished knitting the mauve baby set for Kiama Show, I just have to sew it all together.
I am knitting a baby matinee jacket for the show now and have just had to rip back about 8 rows of 164 stitches each row in 4 ply yarn, not my idea of fun, but it had to be done, so tonights knitting will be catching up to where I was before I ripped it back, that took about an hour or so and with other things happening it means 2 or so days of knitting lost.

I have to download some knitting photos and take more after sewing together the mauve set.

Happy new year to everyone, and 2009 is going to be a great year....well I keep telling myself that, and the power of the mind is going to win through here you know...so mind just get with the program will you.