2013 in knits (September and October and a little bit of November)

September and October were interesting months for us. We moved out of our old house at the beginning of September and moved to Australia in the middle of October. In between, we visited friends and family, spent a few days in London and later in Cardiff and finally spend a couple of weeks back in Southampton before flying out to Sydney. We slept in 11 different places before moving into our apartment here in Sydney at the start of November.  Of course, there was still knitting time.

September

Fovever Baby Blanket

This pattern is from Purl Soho but it is just a large rectangle worked in cartridge belt rib.  The blanket is a present for our friends whose baby was due in November. We visited them on our in-between-homes travels so we wanted to give it to them in person.  Little Madeleine arrived towards the end of November.

October

Shalom cardigan

I've wanted to knit this for a while and wanted to use Rowan Cocoon. Thanks to my lovely sister who gave me a gift voucher for a yarn shop, I acquired said yarn during the yarn shop's summer sale. The colour is Scree. Unfortunately, the yarn sheds like crazy.  Hopefully I will still get some wear out of this when autumn arrives in Sydney but for now it is packed away with the winter woollies.  

The pattern is by Meghan McFarlane and is available at her blog Involving the Senses or just find it through Ravelry, which is what I did.

Imagine When

This was done as part of a KAL. It is a J O J I pattern that is supposed to be knit it one colour. I used two because I didn't have enough yarn in one colour and I like how these two yarns go together. The red is Madeline Tosh Merino Light in Tart and the grey is Old Maiden Aunt bamboo/merino in dreich. 

November 

Zigging Hat

I've included project in this post because these four projects were completed after we moved out of our house in Southampton but before we moved into our apartment in Sydney in the second week of November.  Nothing was really blocked properly (or at all in some cases) during this period but not to worry.

Zigging Hat pattern is by Sezza Knits and I found it when I was browsings patterns during the Indie designers KAL. It is a quick knit that I did with the leftovers from Imagine When.  This was a present for a friends little one and also helped protect an important shipment of Tim Tams on their journey from Australia to America.