Upside Down

Something that has bothered me vaguely about the tulip pattern (scroll down to previous post) is that when the knitting is folded to make a bag, part of it will be upside down. I assured myself that that didn't matter, but it nagged at me none the less. This morning I had a brainwave - knit part of it upside down, so that it's the right way up when folded! I confess that I thought the flap would be upside down, but when I folded the tulips realised that it is the back part of the bag that would be reversed. Hmm. I was prepared to undo two rows of flowers to redo the flap, but not four rows. I'll have to start over. Thinks, thinks, I've decided to do the three parts of the bag in the same colour order, rather than the random arrangement of the first one. Now I have  'It'll be just like starting over' singing loudly in my head.

Tulips

I've finished my beaded knitting. I'm going to wait until I have a magnetic clasp before I turn it into a clutch bag. The beaded knitting process is simple enough, it's sorting out mistakes that is time consuming. Sort them out I did, and I'm happy with the result.

Back To Beads

I managed to buy a few more bead colours locally, so I've gone back to my bead knitting. It's not always easy to find beads in the right size and colour.

I don't know why there are big white spaces on my blog page. They're rather unsightly.

Prep

A friend of mine who doesn't have access to the internet gave me a link to a tutorial on YouTube for a tutorial on joining granny squares as you go. Here's the link to it.  The tutorial by Bella Coco uses a different method to the one I've used. I promised Zandra  I would watch the video and then show her what to do when we see each other tomorrow. We'll be short of time tomorrow, so I've worked some squares with scrap yarn to the joining stage. I hope she's a quick learner!

Too Small?

I'll check with an expert next week, but I rather think that my crochet top is too small to qualify as a 'woman's top'. So much for all my careful calculations! You can see why I have to start working on this nearly a year before it's needed. The bust measures 26 inches, 66 cm.

On The Edge

I'm working on the bottom edging of my crochet top, after sewing the pieces together with as neat a seam as I could manage:

I have the kiwi tea towel on my lap when I'm working on the top, in an effort to keep it clean. I'm making rusks  today and am bound to get covered in flour. I'm not allowed to wash the top before entering it into the competition, so I had better not get flour all over it!

Another Fish

I tatted another of Carollyn's fish.  I tried out an idea from muskaan and put the eye slightly above the mouth. It complicates Carollyn's wonderfully simple pattern slightly, but I like it.