Afternoon tea...

A plate of knitted cakes! These are a gift for Mark, the sugarcraft tutor. Lisa and I have been attending his courses for the last few years - today is the last class ever so we have knitted him some cakes! Here is my contribution to the project - a lemon meringue pie, an iced doughnut and a piece of carrot cake!

Hooray!!!

Here is a picture of me, 'modeling',( ha ha), the finished Hearfelt jacket! It's bigger than I'd hoped, so I'm going to try washing it to see if it'll close in a bit. Never, never, never again!!!

For some strange reason I have decided to make my whole family socks for christmas. I've purchased lots of sock wool, including Zauberball, Violet Green, Fyberspates, Opal and Regia, and it's all gorgeous. I've also got two new books ' Socks a la carte' and 'The Little Box of Socks'. They only arrived this morning, I need to make time to peruse them properly. Now, you think that would keep me busy enough, but no, I had to go and buy enough wool to make Debbie Abrahams Lithograph blanket too! Sooo, if I can manage a pair of socks and a square a week I'll be laughing!

Willow Update

Willow is marching on! After a brief hiatus (!) I have picked up the Willow tank top again. It is a tank top from Kim Hargreaves' book 'Breeze'. The book has some gorgeous vintage inspired knits and I'm already planning my next project! I've now completed the back of the tank top so hopefully I'll press on with the front this week. I much prefer knitting fronts than backs and I will especially like knitting this one as it has a deep scoop neck!

Surf and Sand

Another dishcloth! This one is to be known as the 'Surf and Sand' dishcloth. I love the colours in this one - especially the, almost jade, green. I followed the ballband dishcloth pattern as per usual and used the fabulous Peaches & Creme Ombres yarn. This shade is 'Royal Verde', shade 174. I photographed the dishcloth on my washing line in bright June sunshine with Swansea Bay as the backdrop!

Lisa and I are coming to the end of our cake decorating course this week. We are both working on a selection of knitted cakes as a thank you gift for our tutor! As well as this I am wondering if I've left it a bit late to start on two pair of Father's day socks!

Dishcloths...

Well, I've finally got over my writers/bloggers block! It's been a while...

During my absence, I've also managed to knit a couple of dishcloths. Mine don't really have a theme, I'm just trying out different patterns. The last two cloths have been on Ravelry's Dishcloths R Us group, featured as the monthly k/cal. You'll have to excuse the colour combinations, they were chosen by my lovely offspring!!!

I agree with Rhian, dishcloth knitting is dangerously addictive!

Now, back to the Hearfelt jacket...

Wavepool Dishcloth

Be warned - this dishcloth knitting lark is highly addictive. Once you start you literally can't stop! I love the fact that dishcloths are small, finite projects, easily knitted in a few evenings. In my case dishcloths bring respite from slow-growing, difficult knitting projects! This 'Wavepool Dishcloth' is part of my nautical dishcloth collection - the pattern is available as a Ravelry download. It is knitted, once again, in the fabulous Peaches & Creme - shade 23, baby blue. I have more dishcloth projects planned and also a bathmat!!