Back to knitting, spinning and a little tablet weaving.

Well now that the table runner is finished I am going back to knitting and spinning but in the meantime a little tablet weaving practice.

Here is a photo of the band.

I know I have one card in that tablet weaving that isn't quite threaded properly but its just a practice band , once again to learn from errors and get a feel for it using my newly made plastic cards. I am pretty happy with them in general and they are not to hard to handle.

The knitting that I am doing is my alpaca blanket.
I have designed a graph of alpaca and translated it into a written knitting pattern.
So far its going really well.
I chose a basket weave pattern and the row of alpaca's will go about midway up and it will be finished with the basket weave pattern.
Here are the photo's of my progress

 The picture above and below show the little hoof's and bottom of  legs on the alpaca's

 This is the basket weave pattern.
The alpaca has been carded and handspun by me and the fiber is from a work friend who have three beautiful boys with the most gorgeous fiber. I have 10 different shades of alpaca fiber that I have bought whole fleeces of but I believe there are at least 22 different shades.
I wished I had more colours.

and this is the graph that I painstakingly made before recounting and translating it into a written pattern.
Lap Blanket has 187 stitches , so it may take a while as its still fairly hot here in Australia. Nights are getting a little cooler. Gorgeous weather I adore it.
So thats about it.
Family coming for a Roast Pork tonight. Must get cracklin'