Just give peas a chance!

Somthing rather exciting may be happening at the end of June, but I can't shout about it until a contract has been signed. There will be more info to follow. In preparation I have been knitting up lots of little things to sell at this particular event. Here are some peas!

Teddy for Isabella

Well its been quite and exciting week mainly due to the arrival of little Isabella Kempt. She is an absolute treasure, a beautiful little pudding!  

I found the pattern on Ravelry as per usual - its such a lovely bear, I'm dead pleased with how it turned out. I had finished it earlier on in the week, but we didn't know for sure whether Ma and Pa Kempt were getting a little girl or boy. As soon as Isabella arrived I had a bit of a rush on to make a little pinefore and shorts outfit. Although the teddy is wearing a little dress, it is reasonably gender neutral colourwise (hope I'm getting approving nods from Sian there).

Monster Monster Monster

I treated myself to Rebecca Danger's Monster book last month and it has been a rather brilliant investment.

Check out my Monsters!

Here we have Cecil, Hugo, Curtis and Morvan. It was a nightmare getting them to sit still for 5 seconds while I took this picture.

Morvan and Curtis have been re-homed so I'm looking forward to making some more soon.

Easter Fundraising

Our Knitting group at work have been beavering away making Easter egg knits to sell to raise funds for Omnibus, the staff association.
My contribution so far is 5 chicks and 4 baskets. Hope to get a few more done by Easter for them.

WoW Gorilla, AGAIN!

We were lucky enough to get hold of two of the replica WOW Gorillas and of course, one of them was the very lovely Blue who donned my knitted attire over last summer.

As Ma and Pa were about when I did that particular bombing I thought I'd give it to them as a gift. Dad sent me a message to say he had escaped en route to the car. They managed to take some pics of him in his natural habitat before recapture.

A scary way to use up scraps

We had a mega tidy and sort out last weekend, which meant I had to do a job I had been putting off for a while - tidying up my yarn stash! I had a rummage through my yarn box and found several unfinished projects a fair few ball of un-started yarn and countless more balls that are either left over from bigger projects or I've inherited from generous peeps. I also have bags of yarn snippets left over from all the colour work I've done. I daren't throw any away - it could be useful one day! Instead of getting on and clearing out the cupboard under the sink, I thought a much better use of my time would be to knit up some of these odd bits of stash.

Enter Scrap Monster!

Its ok... don't be scared, she can’t get you - she hasn't got any arms! She just likes to intimidate with her menacing stare.

I made up the pattern myself (I know, get me!!!!). It’s just a rectangle with extensions for the ears, fold in half, add some tubes for legs and Taa Daaa. I'd knit the body quite tight, using 5mm needle on yarn recommended for 6mm so instead of using toy stuffing I used the yarn snippets. As the knit is so tight, the multicolour snippets don't show through.

During my rummage I also found a monster kit that Paul and Nicole had given to me several birthdays ago. I’m ashamed to say I’d completely forgotten about it. To keep Scarp Monster company I made it up. Haven’t got a name yet though so suggestions are very welcome.

Somethings for Me

One of my New Years resolutions is to make more things for myself.
I've done pretty well in the first month -

Fingerless Gloves with fancy buttons (pattern from Knit Today)

Chunky and Cosy Cowl. I made this with three strands of aran weight yarn on fat 12mm needles and this pattern: http://ttwcreative.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-free-cowl-pattern.html

and I finally finished the jumper I started last summer

I'm super chuffted with all of these but particularly the jumper, it fits like a dream and is one of the biggest and most technical things I've made. As perusual the pattern came via Ravelry: http://www.classiceliteyarns.com/WebLetter/9/Issue9.php