Simple circle skirt

Today was a time warp with a trip back to the fabric store where I spent countless hours against my will as a child. This placed must have been around for about a bazillion years. It was old when I was little and has not changed a bit, right down to the staff, accounting method (scribbling on cardboard), no eftpos or credit card sales and probably some of the stock.

Our mission today was to gather goodies to make some circular skirts. I bought some lovely cotton but decided to see if my abilities are up to par with some fun sparkly fabrics for dress ups. There are plenty of tutorials on the internet so making the pattern was actually quite easy. Both girls were happy and I feel that I am up to the challenge to make some actual clothes for them.

Again my photos are really dodgy, but in 2010 the year of compromise, near enough IS good enough. I will try to dig up some photos of last month's sewing, an Abaya for G to wear to book week.

An actual post about knitting

Yep. Finally a FO worth photographing and sharing. This yarn started out as a cardi I was working on for H while she was in hospital, but I just could not get into it. Maybe that was not the colour to be working with in a surgical ward...

Anyway, now it is a lovely scarf for me and also a sling for B's favourite doll. Meanwhile I am already halfway through my next project, Lacy Baktus a gift for someone special.

Pattern 5th Avenue from Tentenknits blog

 Ravelry Pattern page | My project page

Yarn Pure bamboo worsted by Wendy

Needle 6mm

Legwarmers

A friend has asked me to make a pair of legwarmers for her little girl and here are the prototypes I have made while creating a pattern. 

I almost want a pair myself. 

Our woolies are ready for some lovin'

We are off to Melbourne in the morning, with a little prayer to St Christopher or whoever the saint who looks after travellers is as we are flying QANTAS. I never thought I would see the day when I was feeling uneasy about stepping on to one of their planes....

Anyway, back to nice things, here are some of the woolies I have been working on over the last few weeks all packed up and ready to go. The scarves are made following a simple yet effective looking stitch pattern that I found at Yarn Harlot. Also piggle and a variation of calorimetry from knitty can be found among our goodies.

I was enjoying knitting up these scarves so much that I made this one for a friend. His was made with a thicker yarn and I think that the pattern really popped in his. Here it is all bundled up with the care instructions from the ball band attached to one of my Moo cards.

Twinkletoes 2.0

It was a year ago today that I posted photos of Twinkletoes from Knitty that I made for G, always with the intention to make a pair for B as well.

I did it this past weekend and here are the results.

And here we are with big sister's much loved pair.

Spring is Here!

Well, I just wrote a really long post about how wonderful things are going, how much I love our new place and feel so inspired here but lost it for some reason. So I went to my dashboard to spring clean my blog and had more trouble trying to amend my template. Both these things reminded me of exactly why I have not been around so much lately.....

Anyway, here is the Readers Digest version of what I was saying.

New house is great!

Have been knitting again. I made the doll sleeping bags and pillows for the girls and have a project on the go as a suprise for a friend who has a lot on right now as well as teaching G how to finger knit. Our young neighbour from Austria is quite the finger knitter too. One afternoon she made a skipping rope which the children have played with quite a few times since.

After our wonderful winter Dubai style spring is in full bloom and we are doing lots of spring craft activities. I now finally get the easter bunny thing too. Bunnys and eggs makes sense in Spring rather than Autumn.

Special Capris

These are very special capris for B made from odd small balls left over from other projects including some gifts for some little friends, and also some wool that was part of gift wrapping to B from Felix last year. It is a nice way to remember our special Gold Coast friends.

And as you can see in photo number two, in true B style she had to put them on for herself.

The $3 Soaker

How much fun are clearances? I got the purple wool (Cleckheaton Merino 4ply Bambino) ages ago for 72c and the pink (Panda Woolbale 8ply) for only $1.99 using less than 1.5 balls of each to make the soaker.

The other great thing is that it is all Aussie grown and spun.

And A Pair For Our Little Blossom

It was high time I knit a pair of longies for B, as the pink ones I made in January are going to be too short in the leg before we know it.

B's Longies in Action

I finally thought to take a photo with B wearing her longies.

Piggle Number Two

Well that didn't take long.
Now on with the cord for Sugar on Snow

It has been a busy January

Longies. I will post a pic of them being modelled as soon as I can get madam to hold relatively still for a photo
Amber's soaker. I want to do a few more before I send them over.
Fetching. G loves them so much, I will make some for her in pink.
One of the many SIGG Bottle cozies. I felted and lanolised them so they keep condensation from getting into our bags. Still have a few to felt and give as gifts.

I had a go at Sugar on Snow as well. I just need to finish off the leaves and we are done.