The Big Sweat finished

At last, the Big Sweat for little K. is finished, sewn up and posted off. Designing at 140 miles distance drove me to doing a sleeve shaping which is narrow in the forearm part, with internal tabs and external buttons so the sleeves can be shortened by rolling up. Piccy shows short left sleeve, full length right one.

Ican now get on with mini-skoleppar for Christmas!

Baby Blankets

I finished the crochet baby blankets. Strange effect when working on the second one was that the background(return row) colour completely altered my perception of the colours and which to pick next, even though they were in exactly the same order as on the first. Electric light didn't help. Even in the photo you can see that allt he colours seem darker.

Decadent Dazee

I got the companion flower finished at last. In Val Pierce's original pattern for a snail there was a daisy with white petals. I made the pot, stalk and flower on the sock machine, and decided to be clever and make a fringe on the flatbed for hair. Didn't realise what flimsy yarn I had picked up, so she definitely looks as if she is having a Bad Hair Day.

But anyway, Helen at Ruddington Framework Knitters'Museum says she won't alter a thing, and Dazee is here pictured outside the cottages. Last seen in the tea room, obviosly too lazee a dazee to move into the Griswold Sock Room where she truly belongs!

Read all about me in French!

My pals in the Spinners and Weavers of South West France have just refreshed their website. You can find it here http://spinandweaveswfrance.fr/mai09_maryhawkins.html

I must have been talking a lot on that day as I do not remember so many photos being taken and I am still staggered that I managed to get all that lot AND clothes and books for a fortnight in my 15kg allowance with Ryanair!

Soma Cube

Finished it yesterday. Load of fun, but bits of foam everywhere from trying to make curvy bath sponges fit a box shape.

Hexaflexagon Cushion

Very much inspired at KCG AGM by Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer's cushion. Delighted when I went in my local wool shop for nine shades of yarn to find she's having a summer sale of 20% off. So I bought Sirdar Calico, a 60/40 cotton/acrylic mix. The project calls for 3 main colour families, 3 shades in each. 18 triangles, mainly double crochet, don't have to think about them, and so easy for taking on a bus or train. Pattern is from my pals at www.woollythoughts.com

I've taken on a new "job" which will tie me to the computer more than usual, so need an easy project for the times I can relax.

Heeliotrope

Heelitrope was finished today, complete with a bee in her bonnet, which probably doesn't show up in the pix. Again, inspired by Val Pierce's Daisy pattern in Knitting, June 2007. Name courtesy of Pat at Woolly Thoughts, which is why the petals are purple.


Knit as one tube on the sock machine, pot up through stalk to flower. Leaves and petals crocheted afterwards.