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tools of the trade....

Busy drawing pencils at the moment...

I have an idea for a new project :it will have to wait until after the New Year when I find a bit of time to work on it. In the meantime, plenty of sketching and thinking time.

Off to Sydney, next week to catch up with family, friends and sunshine. I plan on eating mangoes, swimming in the ocean and wearing very light floaty things! And sunblock, of course.

Not a scarf or woolly jumper in sight.

Although the idea of a bikini is kind of alarming after a year away....fake tan, anyone?

knitted toys....

are a favourite with my girls. I enjoy making them, they enjoy playing with and cuddling them, so it works for everyone.

 

I found a pattern for a knitted panda hand puppet- the baby that I knitted this for is just six months old so I decided a stuffed version might be a little more useful. I used the photo of the hand puppet as inspiration and just made it up as I went.

Simple,soft and cuddly - ticks all the boxes, I think.

seriously # 2 ....

Really,this is truly one of those times where you can boast quite honestly that one of your children could have made this. And possibly done a much better job!

I can just imagine the people over at Moschino having a bit of a laugh when they decided to set the price at a mere £105.00...

If you don't fancy the heart, there is also a bow or a corsage of fabric flowers. As well as white versions. You can take a look here - and then get out the needle and thread and whip yourself up a few hundred pounds worth of home sewn goodness in about 10 or 15 minutes tops....

to wrap...

my sister's soon to arrive first baby in....

A small but soft bit of luxury, that is still to be blocked but is at last, off the needles.

Cashmere with a knitted bound edging that I hope will lie flatter once I get a bit of steam onto it. At the moment it is a bit too bouncy and curly for my liking.

This was a blanket that constantly evolved as I knitted. I started off with the idea in mind of it being mostly the soft linen colour with just one stripe of pale pink on it somewhere.

Then it was going to have a simple pink tipped ruffle instead, about two thirds of the way up. By the time I was halfway through I had decided that I wanted it to feel and look a little like an old favourite sweater- hence the small band of Fair Isle. I had to ponder the edge finish for a while as I wanted to keep the overall feeling simple. After seeing this blanket, I decided on the knitted bound edge.

Hope the baby likes it...we'll find out in just a few weeks.

I am just a little bit excited.

Just a bit....