Angelic!

Yesterday I went to Unravel.  The lovely Wildpurl picked me up as we do not live far from each other (or from the Maltings as it happens!) and we promised to support each other in our resolve not to buy much.  I think I was really very restrained. Just 2 skeins of Alpaca sock yarn, and a beautiful pattern by Amanda of NDS. I felt positively angelic,  although it must be said Wildpurl was even more so as she bought nothing, nada, not a bean.

Anyway, here are my purchases,

I am not even going to mention the extremely HUGE piece of carrot cake I ate at lunchtime, which does somewhat negate the angelic behaviour at the show........... shame i didn't take a photo of that - or maybe it's a good thing! LOL

Eeeeww what a grey day!

Luckily I have my own little ray of sunshine.  It smells lovely too!

The Race for life widget has appeared

^^^^ See it? - Just up there?  I'll blog about it more as time goes on, but in the meantime, it's there and it's open for business! ;)

February is for Finished Objects!

Already the month is halfway through, but at least I have something to show for it. 2 finished objects!

The first is my lovely CanCans as previewed in the last post (and yeah all you funny people commenting on how cold my toes will be! ;) - it's a Sock YARN challenge! - but you did make me laugh )

I really like this pattern. The arms are nice and long as is the hand part, not quite over the knuckles, but long enough to actually keep you warm, which strangely not all mitts are!

My second FO is my 2nd window quilt, and Oh My, am I happy with this one. I am pleased that I did learn lessons from the first one, and that my sewing and confidence have grown.

With this one I did all the quilting free-motion. Starting in the centre panel and outlining parts of the illustration (but leaving the sky for a soft, sunny, billowing effect!), and then moving on to the border.

The pale green border fabric actually has little leaf stems on it, so I used these as a very rough template for the free motion quilting - wanting to make that border a little less lofty and thereby allowing the centre panel to take more attention. - It worked well. And I'm pleased with how my first free motion went.

I still have plenty to learn, and can improve a hundred fold - but isn't that always the way with crafting, - there are always lessons to be learnt and that's why we love it so.

Feb Challenge

So February has started (did you notice?) and I picked this as my Feb Sock stash challenge.

The yarn I think, is Merino Plus from Yarnaddict  I'm not 100% sure of that, but it's knitting up very similarly to 2 other skeins that I have, so that's what I think it is. The colour was cherry (that much I do remember!)  I've finished the main part of the first one, just need to do the thumb, then on to the second one.

I've nearly finished my 2nd fairy quilt too......just the handsewing of the binding to do on that, so pics will be here soon.

Drops Sweater Dress

Sometimes I have to laugh at myself. I started this last year, and nearly completed it for Christmas, but then Christmas knitting took precedence, and anyway I didn't (and still don't really) have anything to wear under it, so I put it in a bag to finish after the festive season........... Only........... I forgot! - Totally and utterly forgot about it. It was only when I was checking through my ravelry projects (thank you again ravelry) that I realised I had put it away! - *doh*.  Anyway here is all its glory is my Drops sweater Dress, made from 2 strands of Fabel sock yarn, which means it's totally machine washable! *YAY*.