Round and round we go!

My friend and colleague is having a baby in January...my Mother attends crochet classes and was pondering her next project...mmmm what could she do...





The pattern is from here Creative Crochet - thanks Kay! xx

Monkey Business

Meet my little chimpanzee...

Just hanging around...

Halloween is one of my favourite times of year...I love all things spooky




Boo here, however, does not fit this bill and spends her time night or day just hanging around the house with us all...I'm sure she does not know she is a bat and she is supposed to be fast asleep in someone's belfry!

Oh well...moving on...Christmas! Two or three weeks ago a colleague asked if I could make her Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for her class at school and of course I could not say "no"...




Edited to add these figures have been travelling home with different Year 1/2 pupils since the beginning of Advent to remind them of the journey Mary and Joseph undertook to reach Bethlehem...

O Christmas Tree...

These were going to be pressies for my dear Daughter's friends...then she changed her mind and I am now making mini bags instead...



Here is a link to the pattern in case you would like to save our trees this Christmas and knit your own (albeit very small ones!) you will need to be a Ravelry user for this

Sshh!

It's a sleeping bunny!


She was a fairly quick knit, I started her last evening, finishing her around midnight...as you can see, it was so late when I completed her, she went straight to sleep!

Monkeying Around

A friend bought a kit to knit a monkey. She thought she and her daughter could make him together. She looked at the pattern booklet, closed it and monkey stayed in the box! After six weeks of waiting for the holiday to finish, she came back to work and asked if I would breathe life into him. How could I resist?

Here he is in his hat and scarf ready for winter. I am sure he will be happy in his new home...who knows, as he was so well behaved when he stayed with me, I may just have to knit him a friend...



The Lady E is only half finished but I am hoping to be wearing her for the Winter. I must confess, I was side tracked just a little with a spinning kit over the summer holidays. I bought a spindle and roving from e-Bay and got myself twisting the days away glued to You Tube trying to figure out how the ladies made the spindle look so easy! I can definitely "drop" it but not in the way I should...(Photos to follow!)

Summer with a Lady

I was given the book Scarf Style for Christmas. I was given six skeins/balls of Rowan Tapestry for Christmas. I had no intention of making the Lady 'til now!

She is cast on and will be here for the summer. She is a pleasure to do, very calming and theraputic. There is something wonderful about working on each small but important section and seeing how the colours work out overall.

I am truly fascinated with the Lady.

She is holey round the edges and some may say she is a little dark and not as pretty as some but hey, we can't all be perfect. She is definitely a favourite of mine :D