I also put his name on the back.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Henry the octopus
I also put his name on the back.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Progress
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Thankyou wooly santa !!!!!!
incy wincy spider
This is my second felted bag using the same pattern. I wanted a Gothic theme so decided on a spider embelishment. I wanted it subtle but I put the red on the spiders back so that you could see it against the black web. I spent all night googling trying to find a pattern for the spider and web and in the end just did it free hand.
I hope it looks good after I do the final felting of the bag.
Monday, November 26, 2007
A treat !
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Ahoy there me hearties
Meet 'Mick' the pirate pinata. I named him Mick after the big mouth that my husband made for him. He was filled with lollies and tissue paper. He took 2 days to make and a couple of seconds to be destroyed . Next time I will re-enforce with wire the top where the string is attached .
More paper mache. These are treasure chests that I made for party favours. They were filled with 'jewels' and 'pirate gold' and were a hit with the kids.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Happy 3rd Birthday
Not knitting related but today is my big boy's 3rd birthday.
We are having a party on Saturday but this is the cake I made to celebrate today. He looked through the Womans Weekly birthday book and chose this cake himself.
I really hate spiders so making it creeped me out a little. My little boy loved it and it tasted pretty good too :)
Friday, November 16, 2007
Girls best friend
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
First Felting of Bag
After it was somewhat dry I stitched this design onto it. It is kind of rough and rustic but that is what I was going for as I have a picture in mind once it has shrunken down.
I will finish felting it today. I am really excited to see how it turns out.
My Nana popped over this morning and was quite impressed when she saw it.
Here is the bag after its first felting.
Felting?
I found this pattern http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/bags/bag-musiq-ditty_bag.html
I knitted it on 7mm needles out of double stranded patons Jet. I combined the grey and pink yarns for the main colour and contrasted with the double stranded grey. I managed to knit this in one day. Gotta love large needles.
Secret Santa
My little online knitting group decided to do a secret santa wool swap for Xmas. I decided to do another dye up. Food colouring again but this time I used black, red and yellow. It am really happy with how it turned out. I hope my SS buddy likes it too.
I made some stitch markers out of black and red beads to go with it.
The thing that took the longest time out of the whole thing was winding up the wool. I will NEVER attempt to do that on my own again. In fact a wool winder might go on my Xmas list.
The slowest jumper in the world
My big boy was feeling a little left out so I decided to knit something for him. As he has been out of nappies for almost a year I didn't really want to do longies so I started a jumper. This is a pattern called 'quaker ridge' and is out of 8ply cotton although it seems to be thinner than true 8ply.
It is quite tedious and so far I have only finished one sleeve. I keep going back to it though.
Tannenbaum
Blue Lagoon
To dye for
This time I wanted to have a go at dying some wool myself. I really liked the nice, soft 'Dashing' wool from Spotlight , so I used different shades of blue food colouring and dyed some white 'Dashing' in the microwave.
This is the method I used.http://www.withawareness.com.au/new-page.htm
Beanies
The rainbow connection
After my first effort I was very excited to have another go. This time I used a pattern written by a member of a parenting forum I frequent. I loved the look of all the hand dyed yarns but I wasn't ready to spend up big on something I could stuff up and I couldn't wait for the mailman. So off to spotlight I go and found this multicoloured bambino merino in 4ply, which I double stranded. I LOVE how these turned out. They are a great fit with extra short rows in the back to accommodate his cloth nappies. Hardly any mistakes this time. My baby boy wears these all the time and we get lots of comments.
In the beginning
Here I am
A few months ago I decided to learn to knit in order to make some soakers for my littlest boy to wear over his cloth nappies. I had never attempted to knit anything before but with a little help from my mother- in -law and a lot of help from an online knitting group I nutted, out my first project...and an obsession was born.
So here is my little blog. A record of my knitting journey which will hopefully show improvement along the way.