A Few More Knits

Well those needles of mine have been busy so here's a few more pics of my recent makes.

Recent Knitting Stuff

To say I've been busy knitting is an understatement - I've designed a few items myself but have done many from patterns too. I will eventually write up the patterns I've designed and add them here. In the meantime here's a selection of my lastest knits.

Just lately....

Thought I'd better do a quick update as I've not blogged for a while. I've finally completed the shrug for my little girl, knit a pair of baby booties and started tonight on a women's version of the easy toddler slippers. I also knit a bag for my mum but can't find the notepad I wrote the pattern on. Once I've found it I will put the pattern up on here for anyone who wants to have a go themselves!

Shrugs & Rain

I'm currently knitting a shrug for my lovely daughter from a pattern in an old issue of Simply Knitting called Hugs & Shrugs. It seems to be taking forever even though its a simple pattern. Once finished I will post a picture. The wool is sort of pink and fluffy and just so girly!

On a separate note if it rains tomorrow it will have rained for 7 days - Talk about April showers! Well more like April downpours... The sun made a brief appearance around tea time then quickly hid again. If this sort of weather carries on for much longer I may have to put the knitting aside, buy some wood and build an Ark!

Cardigan Finished!!!

I finally completed the cardigan on Sunday night, much to the delight of my daughter who was obviously keen to model it. The pattern was taken from the April edition of Lets Knit and was called Sundae. I only followed the basic pattern though as it called for a different yarn and had embellishments on it that would have looked odd with the crofters yarn.

Now comes the task of making my felted bag. Its taken two days to unwind the skeins of wool and make them into more user friendly balls. Too many knots and finger aching work to unravel them all!

Kerry Woollen Mills

This weekend I visited Kerry Woollen Mills. What a wonderful place full of beautiful garments and of course, WOOL!
I wanted to buy some 100% pure wool so that I can make a felted bag as all of my stash contains blends of wool with 95% being the nearest. The wool was Aran weight with a variety of natural colour ways so I bought 5 different toning skeins so that I had plenty of choice as I want to do stripes.
Hopefully if my project goes to plan I will post pictures and the pattern.
Happy Knitting!

Crofters Cardigan

Hello there!

I started knitting a cardigan for my little girl a few nights ago using Sirdar Crofter Yarn in Shetland. Its going well and I absolutely love the stripey fair isle effect the wool creates. I'm due to start the left front today but I think I'm going to get two balls of wool out and make sure I mark the pattern repeat on the yarn on both balls so that my stripes for the front of the cardigan match.