...I have started a new blog as a place to keep all my knitting and crochet and sewing projects, ideas etc...
I want to try and keep everything a little more organised (I am of course having these kinds of ideas as some sort of new year brainstorm, we'll see how well this actually works out!).
Therefore this blog here will be mainly used for my polymer clay creativity and news for my little shop. For all my stitching news please head over here.
xx
...so he may not need any more hats, but I loved the colours in this yarn and I knew it would look fantastic in hat form!
The yarn was from my little collection of lovely yarns from snowberry and lime. It was intended to be a christmas gift but I must admit it went straight on his head and has become a regular upon his head ever since.
He (like most babies I'm sure) went through a stage of detesting hats upon his head and would remove them constantly, but recently quite the opposite is true, he loves wearing hats now, I expect it has something to do with his now found ability to say 'hat' and to put it on his head himself (well sort of), plus, of course, his daddy is quite a hat wearer too!
You can see all the knitting details on ravelry here.
...a few of the wonderful bargains (and free stuff) I've bagged myself this past week or so...
...free plums, foraged from the garden of an abandoned house (I also have apples and a few blackberries from the same garden!), baked in a plum loaf...
I'm loving all this autumnal fruit!
...foraged sloes soaking in gin...
You're meant to leave the gin for 18 months before drinking, but I imagine I might just last until next summer before cracking open a bottle! Fortunately I picked just a few too many sloes so I should have a couple of bottles to stash away
...super cute and colourful, double pointed knitting needles, never been used, 10p a set...
the biggest set have already been put to work as you can see!
...a baby guitar for my baby...
he loves the full size acoustic bass we have, but I'm a little anxious about him playing with it and as soon as he spotted this in the charity shop I knew there was no way we'd be leaving without it, not without a HUGE tantrum anyway!
...these arrived today from snowberry and lime. I have spent many hours looking through all the beautiful yarns there longing to own some, but never actually purchasing any! But now I have some I am so so glad I do! They are so beautiful I cannot wait to get knitting them up in to christmas gifts.
...I am so impressed with this for these reasons...
It was great to learn some new things, both using circular needles and a few new stitches, the kitchener stitch to finish off, cable cast on and ssk decreases.
I love love love that after I had finished the actual knitting part there were just a few ends to weave in and beads to sew on, no massive seams to sew together!
So here is my boys first sweater for the cooler season, which seems to be approaching far too quickly now and after this success I am more than a little inspired to knit up some more!
This pattern is the placket neck pullover by Joelle Hoverson, found on ravelry.
As promised here is my granny bunting pattern. I'm quite excited but also a little nervous posting the pattern as I've never done this before!
My sister successfully completed her bunting in 2 and a half hours and didn't ring me once, she normally rings me for pattern reading advice regularly but was under strict instructions to try and work it all out for herself this time!! I'm afraid I don't have a photo of hers to share with you, but I will attempt to get hold of one soon.
For the pink bunting I used four different shades of pink and alternated them throughout the pattern so each triangle is different, of course you could simply have each triangle the same or even just use one, two or three different colours. For the brightly coloured bunting, which was my first attempt, I used 8 different colours alternating them throughout, really you could use a little or as many as you like!
If you already know how to do a granny square this should be a breeze but if you don't I hope I've written the instructions clear enough that it won't matter.
If you do attempt your own granny bunting I would love to know how you got on and please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
The pattern, in all it's glory, is below.
...working a big project that's a gift so I cannot share more than this, although I really want to!!
...my recent absence is mostly down to fairly temperamental computer but also partly to blame is the wonderful weather and my current quest to find a new house for us to live in (a quest which is so far going very badly indeed!) I do believe I have seen over 20 houses now, it's not that we're particularly fussy, honest, it's just that there is a huge demand for rented accommodation here at present and by the time we've viewed a house and thought about it overnight, we ring the estate agent the next day to discover the house has gone already, that's if we even manage to get a viewing in, I cannot tell you how many have been cancelled as the house has already been taken.
Anyway as a result of lack of computer time I have been doing rather a lot of crochet instead. I am working on a big project which I cannot share just yet but which is coming along rather nicely indeed and in between working on that I have also been completing a few other projects...
granny square triangle bunting::
This is my own design and I have been working on writing a pattern for it to share with you, once my sister has tested it for me I'll post it here pattern now available here.
(if you fancy testing it for me too I would be very appreciative! I've never written a pattern before and therefore would love some feedback before letting it loose on the world wide web! Either leave a comment on here or email me [email protected] and I'll email it over to you)
It's a very simple design and this short version only takes around 2 hours (for me anyway) to put together.
easiest crochet wool soaker by Julie West::
This pattern came from ravelry, you can see details here, and it really was very very easy indeed!
I didn't follow the pattern to the letter, you can see my notes on it here.
This took me 3 hours at most, using up some left over wool from Milo's overcoat I knitted a while back, and now he has his first ever wool soaker (the vanilla I attempted a while ago was a complete disaster) now I just need to lanolize it and we're ready to go.
We had a quick fitting and photo session this morning, but trying to get photos of my newly walking (yes that's right walking!!) babe is fairly tricky!
...on Saturday we dressed in all our finery, jumped on a train and headed across country to the very lovely village of Hook and the even more lovely Tylney Hall, for my cousin's wedding...
It was such a beautiful day, the sun shined, the venue was breathtaking, I got to see all my family and the bride looked gorgeous beyond words.
Of course it was a pleasure to see both of my nieces but seeing this little boy's smile was incredible, I hadn't seen him since he was just a week old (one week olds do very little indeed!).
And, only 2 months late, Nicole was united with her birthday gift, she did remind me instantly that I had yet to send her a birthday card mind, I am a terrible auntie!
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