Beginning of October - Getting Very Autumnal 🍁🍂

 

I love the stitch pattern on my Lewes fingerless mitts that I used this as my monthly marker. 

I didn’t have any knitting to take with me to the local Knit and Natter group so I took some yarn from my stash to start to knit a pair of mittens for my granddaughter as the day went on I finished knitting one! 

The pattern is from Sirdar’s Bumper Book of Accessories, no. 2, with gloves, mitts, socks (2 needles and seamed!) and leg warmers. I’ve used the remains of some plain blue DK and Aurora from the last jumper that I knitted her. I’ll start the left mitten ready for this week’s K&N.

Another thing I’ve picked up recently has been the Yorkshire Blanket, which I decided had been hibernating for long enough!  This is a pattern from Ravelry by Emyleah Newbery of Meemamakes. I started the squares last autumn to use up some Stylecraft Special DK yarn from previous makes and ended up buying four balls more while away on holiday in Amble last year.  I had one half finished square, which I finished off (the red) and then started on another square (the green).

I’ve enjoyed the different techniques in this blanket, very textural which has taken me a little out of my crochet comfort zone.  

Let’s hope I can make some progress on this blanket.