Thursday 26 April 2012

A few little extras

Barley and lavender bag - saw a similar one in the chemist - all the stuffing pushed to one end, folded for packaging. So knitted a simple tube of 140 or so rows, grated both ends, half-filled with barley and lavender. Supposed to me microwaveable for warmth, chillable for a cold compress. Looks like an out-of-shapre beanbag! Swedish Dumpling doll - two rounds, or on the CSM, one tube, colour-change in middle. Facial features on top half plus a hat. Forgot to take pix before I put them in the museum. Also trying out the tomato wedge heel socks again.

Wednesday 4 April 2012

Cyril the silly centipede


...or really, Damien the daft decipede

Body is one long tube, the gathering is done at the stuffing stage. Essential to use yarn with some nylon in it for this, which is why the "mouth" (which started as a red nose) has not come out right - the yarn broke at the gathering stage. I thought it looked funny, so just left it, Legs are tubes sewn, and split.