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Good morning,

My Yokohama Noro jacket is starting to take shape. I have completed the left half of the back, and started the right half last night. It took a little time to get started as I had to remember how to do a crochet chain and then do a provisional cast on… However it went okay and have now done several rows of that back piece.

Tonight when I get home from the store I shall continue with the scarf sample for the shop. It is a new Prism yarn and it certainly looks and feels nice knitted on the diagonal.

Sally

In 2003 I purchased a Cast On magazine because of the Noro jacket on the cover. At long last I am going to knit one for myself using Silk Garden yarn by Noro. The pattern calls for #8 needles but I have done a swatch and am using #9 for the correct guage. The jacket is knitted in six pieces and is all in garter stitch. One front and one back piece are knitted from bottom to top and one front and one back piece are knitted side to side and then the sleeves are both knitted from the top down. So will keep you posted on my progress.
I do have another scarf to knit for the shop and will get that done over the weekend.
Janice is having the first of three finishing and blocking classes on Saturday and all three classes have filled very quickly indeed.

Happy knitting
Sally

Good morning everyone,

Oh such delight with all the new yarns coming into the store almost daily now. It is getting harder to choose a new project as each box opens and reveals different ideas, books and of course yarn and notions.
I have just two projects for the store left to complete. One is a gorgeous evening scarf/shawl in a yarn by Prism and the other is a unisex reversable scarf knitted in a sport weight alpaca yarn. The Prism shawl I hope to have completed either before I go to work this morning or it will be finished the evening. The alpaca is on size 6 needles so will take a little longer to complete.
My own current project is for an old school friend in England as a Christmas present. I decided to do a bolero and found a pattern on line dating back to around the late 30’s early 40’s. Very shaped and extremely elegant. The yarn I am using is a new line by Louisa Harding and it is Kashmir DK in black. This has to be finished as soon as possible and as it is just stocking stitch is knitting up quite quickly.
Once that is done, I have no idea what I am going to start from scratch because I have two or three sweater projects still on needles, which I have promised to complete before opening a new bag of yarn….

Happy knitting Sally