A few good things

I finished these leg warmers last month before scarpering off to Budapest, where someone told me the weather would be freezing. Well, it turned out that global warming got there first, and it ended up being a bit warmer than expected but I still managed to get them done. I love the 80's colours in them. Really retro. Really horrible cheap yarn though but who really cares when they'll be dragged round my ankles when I jot around the house barefoot.

I was also looking over my blog and realised I'm a bit disatisfied with the pictures I have of empire so I did a few more still photos (my autoportrait abilities are a bit rubbish). The lace element is really lovely but the cables give it interest.




















Well, a while ago, I mentioned I wanted to knit this:




















(Plaza from RYC book1)
Thus far, I have this:
(left front half and back)
















(notice I should be revising! - That's mechanics of rocks in the background for any interested parties)
The original pattern calls for RYC cashcotton. However, I had a bulk of debbie bliss cotton cashmere (which knits up to the same tension) hanging around. The only difference is that the RYC yarn is fluffed up with a bit of angora whilst the Debbie Bliss yarn isn't (15% casmere and the rest cotton) so the former looks more fluffy whilst the latter looks more crisp like cotton. Infact, there is little difference in texture between the Bliss yarn and regular cotton yarn, except for it might be a little softer. But that's OK because I didn't pay a great deal for the yarn to start with and angora itches me to death (don't really know why) and I really like the crispness.















The garter stitch looks really nice with the crisp yarn.