Still by Kim Hargreaves

Still by Kim Hargreaves

Having cleared out my yarn I realised that I probably had enough Patons Beehive Soft Blenk DK to knit myself something.

I bought the yarn from eBay. It was an impulse buy because it was very cheap, but it's the kind thing I'm trying to train myself to resist.

I'm not too precious about what I knit with (I don't have the budget to be!) but at the same time if I'm going to put in the effort of knitting something I want it to last a little while at least. The Beehive Soft Blend is 45% Acrylic, 40% Nylon and only 15% Wool, so I'm not convinced that it is going to make a great looking garment, but for some reason I really love this sludgy mustard colour. I think it's probably a love it or hate it one.

'Still' from 'Thrown Together' by Kim Hargreaves has been one of the patterns I've been meaning to get around to knitting for ages, so I decided that I may as well use my cheap yarn on this and at least I'll get some use out of it instead of it just taking up space in my yarn drawer. I have a dream of only having one drawer of yarn so that I can fill the other one up with the sewing stuff I currently have in a suitcase on top of the wardrobe.

I cast on the other day and am really happy with my progress. After spending months knitting fiddly gloves in 2 ply I'd forgotten how quickly DK knits up. So far I've modified the pattern to add in another couple of inches of length at the waist (14 rows added after the bottom pattern). I really don't like short jumpers.