Short...but very sweet!

At last I have taken a piccie of the bolero I made for my dear daughter. I am hopeless at taking pictures with an accurate colour...I may need to invest in a new camera! I have a big yellow button to sew on at the front and I will put a popper under it so she can pop and unpop!

"Oh My Darling Clementine!"

Am making great progress with this Shawlette. The pattern is charted and very easy to follow. I love this!

Can't wait 'til its finished and blocked.

I am no lace expert but I think this would be a great starter for a beginner who wanted to try charted lace. Let me know if anyone has a go!

Happy Bunny!

Have finally sewn a face on my bunny who is now a happy one! I really enjoyed this style of crochet and will definitely work more of it in the future.

I have also frogged my Forest Canopy as I felt the yarn could use a more "holey" pattern.

After much deliberation and Ravelry searching, I cast on for the "Clementine Shawlette". I was wary of the fact that the instructions were charted and not written but am pleased to say it is a dream to follow! I can definitely see me making more of these shawlettes for the winter - my next one will be black, of course!

I have also finished a summer bolero for my DD in the lemon yarn I bought earlier. I changed my mind about which pattern to make with it. I did start a cardigan but yes, I'm afraid to say, I frogged that too as it was just too boring to knit! I know the end result would have been extremely pretty (fan and feather) but I was losing the will to live!

It was a simple pattern but each row was written out. By time I got to row 90+ I was boss eyed!

(Piccies of both to follow!)

I seem to have been unpicking things more than knitting them lately. I definitely lost my knitting mojo for a while, due to feeling under the weather and fed up with life in general - which is why I thought I'd make my little creatures to cheer me up!

I hope if you are feeling the same way and life is getting you down, that my little friends will at least make you smile!

The Circus is in Town...

Well, one of them! Here is the "Strong Man" by Alan Dart from Simply Knitting magazine. I was going to send him to my brother who is a body builder but have decided to keep him instead! Shhh...don't tell him!



He is just waiting for his weights which, now I finally have straws, will be given to him soon...

Bunny!

I'm afraid I've stalled on the knitting front lately! Shame on me! However, I have tried to make an Amigurumi Bunny...





He wasn't as difficult as I thought he would be and he was great fun to do. Obviously he is not finished yet just his arms and face to do!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yep, another year has crept up on me!

I had all these lovely things from my family

I know to some the yarn may look plain but it's what I asked for! I want to do some patterned socks and I prefer using a solid colour.

The green will become these Nutkin Socks which I have fallen in love with. Their name, along with the colour they have been knitted in, reminds me of squirrels, acorns and little woodland creatures...make of that what you will!

One sock down...one to go...

Okay...at long last I have finished my first Bayerische sock.

It's not been an easy one to knit and I have had to undo it a lot of times - through my own fault and not that of the pattern!

I now have to do it all again - surely it won't be so hard the second time - will it?