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!

Diamonds are forever

 

  ... but only because I am forever knitting them!  Having made four blankets now, I am hesitating on a fifth (two are in use in the lounge, numbers 3 and 4 are sitting upstairs waiting for new owners)..  I have got a giant cushion, which I was planning on covering crosswise .  The difficulty is that based on a multiple of four diamonds it is going to squash the inner, based on five it  might be too big.  The former would take 64 squares, the latter 100 - a huge difference.  But 100 it had to be,  Here is the result.

 

 

Harry Potter has got a lot to answer for ...

E wanted mittens with a flip top, not my favourite thing to knit.  I sent a sample for size, made from Russian joined scrappy  yarn.  

She picked out one of the colours which she called teal, and I would call peppermint green.  Then changed her mind for a red that matches her Gryffindor scarf.  Bit of a contrast on the colour spectrum there, E!  I thought I would put in some gold stripes on the cuff.  Matching the red was a bit tricky, not having the scarf with me, and the computer changing everybody else's.  We'll see.

Small wave to say hello

 Japanese small wave, a nami, is very popular in Japanese material.  With just an 8 stitch repeat, it also lends itself quite nicely to machine knit gloves.  Blue is the most popular, of course,  but I might repeat these for next winter in red.  The yarns are as near as dammit J&S 2 ply jumper weight, although appear to be from different Shetland sources.