I woke up with an idea this morning, realising it was the World Cup football match between England and USA and I, as an expat Brit living in America had no England attire to wear for it. Not that I am all that interested in football to be honest with you, but I still like to show some solidarity. I have some union jack stuff, but nothing just England. So I needed something quick and easy that I could get done before the match, and here it is, an England wristband.

I used fingering weight knit picks palette, and doubled the strands because that's all I had in the right colours. I think you could use up to worsted without much problem, but you might have to play around with the size, the first one I made was far too small to get over my big hands so I gave it to my daughter.

Pull off small amounts of the yarn to use or you will get them in a tangle.

Materials:
Size US5 straight needles
White yarn
Red yarn

For XL size CO 40 stitches (decrease by increments of 4 for smaller sizes), using the long tail method (I did not do this and that cast on could do with a bit more give) in white yarn.

Row 1: K1 P1 across in white
Row 2: K1 P1 across to rib in white.
Row 3: K 19 in white, K2 in red, K19 in white
Row 4: P19 in white, P2 in red, P19 in white
Row 5: Repeat row 3
Row 6: Repeat row 4
Row 7: K across in red
Row 8: P across in red
Row 9-13: Repeat rows 3-6
Row 14-15: repeat rows 1-2
Bind off loosely

Stitch two ends together to form a tube
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Even worse than before about updating this! Not that anyone is reading anyway.

The winter was spent knitting a lot, mainly hats and gloves for everyone because it was COLD. We had a million snowstorms in Kentucky.

I also started making Abby some dresses and tops for the summer, with the mission being to make them as cheaply as possible. I snapped up a few patterns when they were on sale, and scoured the remnants bucket for fabrics. I now have a massive tub full of fabric. So far I have completed one dress, almost completed another, made a top and I did make one other dress but I was not happy how it came out, so it's now a rather nice nightdress for her.


These things will be especially useful now, as we spent the spring moving down to Tampa, Florida. So I guess the pair of gloves I spent a long time knitting this winter (and have almost finished) will not be a whole lot of use down here....ah well, maybe the union jack handwarmers will be.