knitting (and felt) on Saturday

Today I went to Rotterdam for the Stitch'nBitch group there.

Again, like four weeks ago, it was bitterly cold.

This time however we were with 

sixteen women !

Can you imagine how much noise

knitting women make ?

A   LOT 

(ha, everyone was getting louder and louder

just to hear her neighbour)

Although I had to frog a bit 

(because I wasn't paying attention enough and had increased two stitches)

the work on my double knitted scarf 

is going smoothly :

nearly there !

The only thing I don't like 

about the Noro Kureyon Sock yarn

is that it's spun soooo thin in some places,

I have to break it up and knit some stitches with a double thread,

which leaves me with a lot of loose ends to weave in ...

Never mind that, 

the colours are gorgeous !

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In the garden the small flowers braved the icy wind

still going strong ..... and also gorgeous colours !

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For the felting - exchange this month's subject for me was 

water

I was in the mood for some experimenting.

The pre felt I made was dried a bit and then

stitched  into pleats with a woolen thread that would felt too,

and strips of plastic as a resist

(the wool is Rowan tweed, but nót very suited and strong enough for knitting)

After cutting the pleats and removing the resists

there was a lot more felting to do

This is the finished piece 

which turned out more or less the right size !

(on its way to the recipient )