Strawberry picking

sunamakeup Mayıs 13, 2022

Yesterday we went strawberry picking with my mum, my brother and his family. It was HOT.

We picked lots of juicy strawberries and ate a few in the field (oops!) Today we made Strawberry jam. I froze lots last year and the children would not eat them claiming them to be too soggy, which they were but I thought flavour would win out but it didn't.

So I thought that jam is the best way to savour the taste of summer for the winter months.

We used 2kg of fruit and made 9 jars.

On the make side, I have had a bit of a disaster. I have been trying to make this sublime cardigan for Big Sis and I am on my fourth go at the left front. Grrr! I am having a love hate relationship with it at the moment.

I started it, then mum borrowed the book to do a project for herself and I put it on the back burner with my commissions to make.

She made this beautifully. I know, look at the back isn't it wonderful?

When I got the book back I had done the rib without the book and guessed but it was wrong. So, I did it again but this time I did the waist decreases on the wrong side, so I would have had two sides the same. I cast on a Third time and knit all the deep rib, did the increases right up to the armhole and thought I had better get the other side out to make sure I don't do the armhole shapings on the wrong side and BUM... I had used 4.5mm needles instead of 4mm and the tension did not match the rest of the cardigan.

I am on my fourth attempt patiently balancing the pattern on my knee and not taking anything to chance.

That is what happens when you leap from craft to craft, project to project - I won't learn my lesson, it's the way I do stuff. I have a half made 1967 shift dress, a small felt dressed rabbit and a border for a hexagon blanket on the go at the moment. Now concentrate Jo, armhole shapings next.