Potty pot pot

 Adapted from a hand knitting pattern, and an obvious

candidate for the circular machine.  Mind you, you have to like picking up hems!

Old skill revisted

 I thought I would make a few more lace coat hangers in machine knitting.  I went back seven years in my notebooks and couldn't find the pattern notes (ETA on Ravelry says June 2012 - no wonder!).  Found the punchcard, "Mrs Trotter's Lace" - so-called asI first used it for a jumper for my old friend Diana, WI President so many years ago.  I worked out that I needed a couple of stitches each side of the lace, worked out where to put the stoppers in.  The one coat hanger I had kept for myself had three sideways repeats of the patterns, but was a bit floppy, so I went with two, just 24sts plus the margins. 120 rows on T7 in the rather stiff white cotton I have been using for waste yarn.  It is slightly slubby and has come out a nice effect.  The three coat hangers, pink, green, blue, were from Secret Sales (what a daft name for a firm of mundane ojects).

Not cost effective for re-sale but what the heck.

Just call me the bag lady

 

  I was looking for buttons ... and came across some circular bag handles.  There's always plenty of diamonds on hand, so whipped up 24 into another bag.

I alos popped into the local Marina chandlery for some cord, and replaced the handle on the previous bag.  I had to flatten it a lot to get it under the sewing machine foot, and it has now unravelled further below the stitching to give a rather pleasing fluffy effect.  Enough left for two more.  It was quite a bit more expensive than I thought, but then if it has to secure a boat in the water it has to be strong!

Now, whot other style of bag can I make with these diamonds?

 

Cover-up(cycled)

I think the photos say it all!
 

A bit of a letdown!

 

The bench seat on the patio, that I had so painstakingly painted earlier this year  broke when my son and little E sat on it.   Very disconcerting!  Three days later I assembled a new one, which looks a better design in the support of the seat with cross-struts.  Will be knitting a cover for this?  Somehow I don't think so! 😄

Who's a HausFrau?

 Many years ago had a pattern for Hausfrau slippers, made from garter stitch squares.  Then found similar patterns using 6, 7 or 8 squares.  The 6 have low sides, the 8 have "jester" points.  I used up a further 16 diamonds (for the pair) in making these.  Now on the quest for more diamond patterns - slightly hampered by the fact I always use 41sts to start, and build up quite a quantity of them.  So items are not deisgened from scratch, but more in the "use what you have" line.  Perhaps more bags, if I can sort out handles.

Slight progress made

 Found this title on 30 May - can't think what it referred to!