I finished the Baktus - just

Yes, the Baktus scarf is done. I ran out of yarn with about three inches still to go, even though I started the decreases with more than half the weight of yarn remaining. I was considering ripping back to before halfway and reknitting, when I remembered that I had a few metres of 2 ply made from the leftover singles when I 3 plyed the original yarn. Undaunted and with reassurance from members of a Yahoo group I'm in, I unplied and then navajo plied these singles, giving plenty of yarn to finish with.

The remains of the spa washcloth warp were woven with a variety of chunky knitting yarns, one section with assorted brown and rust yarns, and one with some blue with flecks. The latter I made into a small bag with a crocheted handle. I knotted the warp ends and folded the knotted edge to the outside.


The side seams were achieved with a length of warp threaded through the selvedge loops which worked well.


The other piece had each warp end threaded up the adjacent warp. This took ages, but if you don't want fringe or hems, it's a useful way to finish a piece. This was a total freestyle effort, using odds and ends of chunky yarn. It turned out a bit weft faced. I might make another bag from this sometime.


Last week, DH and I set about renewing the webbing on my armchair. To start with it involved removing a lot of staples and tacks before stapling new webbing in place. Initially we just had four webs in each direction in a tidy plain weave. This seemed a bit soft, so DH suggested adding more webs. What weave structure to use? Well, I don't know what it's called, but I like it.

Knitting has been going on. I began a top down raglan cardigan using Jojoland Rhythm yarn in a blue/beige colourway on 5mm needles.

I'm a bit further along than this picture shows but so far it's all stocking stitch and the colours are shading nicely.

This is a crocheted doily in progress, which I recently dug out of hibernation and have been pressing on with. There's still quite a bit to do on it.

I'm working on the first sleeve of the crocheted balletneck sweater, but it still looks like a brown blob, so no picture.


Since I like to have a sock on the go, I started a plain top down one in Online sock yarn, 2.75mm needle and 64 sts.