Bakewell tarts and skye bridge scarf

Crocheted these bakewell tarts for Rhymetime in Fort William library to use with the song '5 currant buns in a bakers shop'. They were used for the first time last week, the toddlers loved them so much that some tried to eat them.

This is a Broomstick crochet scarf for the stitches on the bridge project on Skye, I did a panel measuring 26cm x 200cm, hoping to go over to Skye for the day when all the panels are on the bridge, they will be up from 22nd to 26th October if anyones interested.

A to Z

Knitted this Alphabet blanket for my niece's bump, its due next month.

Also knitted this blanket buddy for the bump.

and crocheted this sun hat for a friends wee girl, she liked it so much she wore it Sunday and Monday even though there was no sun.

Not much knitting done this week as I have been helping with the Kilmallie free church holiday club doing crafts, the craft theme was the armour of God so plenty of swords, shields etc. We had around 100 kids each day who all seemed to have a great time.

Mums belated birthday present

Knitted in James C Brett marble, for my Mums Birthday. Made up pattern myself, based on various modular knitting techniques. Front view

Back view

baby bits and socks

Knitted this travel blanket and hat for my niece, she's having a baby boy in september, pattern is Sejia set from the happy hooker, yarn is James C Brett marble, shade MT2

Alos knitted more socks for my stepmup and stepniece. The top ones are knitted from the yarn I dyed with koolaid at Skipnorth , basic sock pattern, the bottom ones are knitted in Regia Kaffe Fasset mirage, shade earth and the pattern is Cafe Curtains

Rainbow Girls and tour de fleece

Been taking part in the Tour de Fleece over on Ravelry to coincide with the Tour de France

The fleece was the blue bag I got from Woolfest, its coming out at 20 WPI, it will probably be a shawl when its all spun.

I also made these wee dolls for the last day of Sunday school for me class of 3-5 yr olds. They all loved them, some were even named before church had finished.

The patterns Rainbow babies, a free pattern from Jean Greenhowes site, I adapted it to add a skirt, made the heads smaller and added hair.

Been busy knitting , I've nearly finished my 5th sweater of the year, just got to sew on buttons, and am now busy knitting baby stuff as my niece is having a baby in september.

Woolfest 09

Just spent 2 1/2 days in Cockermouth at Woolfest, helping Wyesue and Ambermoggie on the Kindred Knitters stall. Ambermoggie and Mr Mog had made shawls and swifts with profits going to charity, Wye sue had leaflets about shadow knitting and mitred squares with a donation to charity for the leaflet and there was a competition to guess the weight of a bear, with a skein of Laalbears laceweight as prize. £150 was raised, split equally betweem Medicine Sans Frontiers, sheep for Africa(woolfests chosen charity) and Ambermoggies local hospice.

I saw loads of people from blogland/ravelry, it was great to meet up with familiar faces and to meet new people and put faces to names too. Not going to mention everyone I saw as I know I will forget someone, but it you saw a plump person with greying curly hair, talking quickly in a Yorkshire accent on the Kindred knitters stall it was probably me.

Despite being on the stall for most of the time, I still found time to shop.

The black at the back is 5 balls of DK weight merino, the blue skein is Yarnyard toddy, the blue ball is sock yarn, the pale purple is Yarnyard Lochan, the dark purple is Knitwitches laceweight and the pinks is 200g of knitwitches cashmere/merino.

I also got fibre, a spindle and other oddments

The fibre is a bag of blue oddments from winghams, spindle is from
Whorl drop spindle, The big stick is a broomstick for broomstick crochet , bag is from ambermoggie and theres a sock keyring and some crochet hooks there too.

At the end of Saturday Wyesue and Ambermoggie both gave me things as a thankyou for helping out so much.

This is 2 skeins of Sues handspun, one with fish in it the other with bells, I think the fish one will become a bag (along with other yarn) the bells will either be part of a hat or a shawl edging.Ambermoggie gave me one of her lovely shawls, I'm sure I will get plenty of use out of it up here. Now hoping for this heatwave to end so I can snuggle into it.

Been busy

Computer went on the blink last month so it was away getting fixed but I have been busy knitting, here are my latest finished projects. Socks for my husband knitted in the Yarnyard sock wool I got last year at woolfest.

A hottie cover for my mum for mothers day, got the wol for this at the SECC craft show, its new lanark DK

Eerie from Rowan 43, in Kidsilk Spray, this was being knited into a spiders web shawl last year, but didnt like the way the yarn and pattern worked so frogged it and knitted it into this. It took just under 4 balls so very light to wear.

This is MS4 that I did the first half of last year, got the second half finished last month and grafted it when we were at my mums in the holidays (thats my mum doing the modelling)

This is a crochet hat I did on the train when I went down to glasgow for the SECC craft show, its adult sized but fits my son too so very versatile.

and just finished Hey Teach (from Knitty) in washed haze aran, this took 6 days from start to finish.

Now I'm dithering what to knit next so swatching for 3 different jumpers.