Hat Fit For A Kereen! - Wednesday 9.2.11

Oh how I love SOCK WOOL. You knit away, gormlessley, and lo, you create patterns. It's MAGIC!!

I'm using it to knit a hat for a friend. I have to admit to being a bit nervous as I reckon she wanted a rolled edge, rather than ribbed. Too late now : )

It took about 6 hours to do all the knitting. The sewing up took half an hour - a surprisingly long time, although that included FRENCH KNOTTING the flower onto the welt.

Looking down on the hat, it's quite a good look. Obviously the hat has longer rows than socks, so the patterns are not so even, which means the colours don't always match up too well when seaming. Hey Ho, I still like it.

The finished hat is the EPITOME OF SOPHISTICATION as you can see.

We Have The Technology To Rebuild Him - Monday 7.1.11

Pingu needed to go home before Sam missed him.

After a little suturing, he was as good as new: ALMOST : )

Heart Hanging - Thursday 3.2.11

Finished it!

Apart from a small heart to go on the very end of the set of beads.

And may I thank the PENGUIN for it's kind donation of viscera, I couldn't of done it with out you PINGU.

All Heart - Sunday 30.1.11

I settled down tonight to a bit of needlework. It began with a session of RANDOM BEAD STRINGING.

Beading is very calming, similar to meditation. I've run the string of beads down through the hearts; attaching it to the backs. As I want all the hearts to face the same way when they hang freely, I held up the beads to allow them to spin until they stopped, prior to each heart being attached.

If they spin as the breeze swirls through Bellas' window, the back will look pretty.

The front is almost right.

STUFFING next, then final blanket stitching to close each heart.


Now....where can I find an unsuspecting stuffed toy to eviscerate? 

Dartmoor - Saturday 22.1.11

Sam had this lovely little dress of Bellas', but Bella has grown out of it - big style! 

 LIKE BABIES DO : )

These little hearts are lovely, so we decided to make a KEEPSAKE from it.

This is as far as I've managed to get, with the help of DENISE who has excelled herself this weekend.

Below, you can see us lovelies astitching these hearts in BLANKET STITCH.

Next job will be to decorate them a bit more and lightly stuff them. Then I can string them together prettily to make a window/wall hanging for her little bedroom.

Denise also made this little hat from my stock pattern. It is, I admit, a size too small for BELLAS' BIG ED!

LOL

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Flaky Fingers Wednesday 30.11.10

With both the mega cold winter and the tiling I've been doing lately, my hands are all dry and chapped.

It makes knitting the babies blanket a non-starter for the moment, which is a shame as I'm a third of the way up it and can see the finished article in my minds' eye. Don't worry ....

I'LL BE BACK!!