Blogtober Day 16: Yoking Around

I cracked the circular yoke. I really like the top which I ended up with. A few tweaks needed with bodice shaping and fullness, but I'm pretty certain this one will go ahead into a full pattern.

The grumpy child was not co-operating for photos this morning, hopefully a trip to the park and library with Daddy will fix that one and I can get a better shot.

Blogtober Day 12: Cookering

I've been a stay at home Mummy for 12 years now, but never been one of those cooking with the kids types. But I will continue to try to improve myself until the day I die, so nothing is out of the question.

Today, spurred on by the sheer amount of snack foods my children go through, I cooked some Anzac Biscuits with Kassidy. Wasn't as frustrating as it is with more than one child helping, I might actually do it again.

Yes, she insists on sitting on the bench to cook. Yes, the best part is licking the utensils afterward.

p.s. I had to laugh yesterday when I noticed that my 11 posts for Blogtober was exactly half of my entire posts for the year! Funny stuff.

Helena Cardigan for Kassidy

I fell in love with this pattern the moment I saw it. It's the Helena Cardigan from www.knitty.com and it's just adorable. So I joined in a Knit-along with some friends from Woolaholics and enjoyed sharing the experience with others too.

I am very pleased with the results too. I made a few mods on the pattern though, which I think added to my enjoyment of the final product.

• I did see stitch waist, cuffs and edging
• I picked up the patterned stitches on the edging, but used the same needle size for the whole project (4mm)
• I also did an increase in the turn of the edging for the 'collar' bit once on each side on the 5th row of edging
  

These three mods meant that there's no pulling on the edging at all which is great, because I have read a few comments from people saying that their edging was puckering.

• I did 5 stitch wide ties
• I picked up 16 stitches under each arm
  
• I and did decreases (only slight) down the arms, one decrease every 5 rounds.