Over the last week I’ve been making these little fellas. They’ll be in the shop soon! I think I’m in love with the colour scheme :)

It’s official folks – I’ve FINALLY branched out and have a bit of knitwear for sale! Here are some snapshots of Leanne modeling the lovely woolen goodies from this mornings shoot in the local park. The shawls are now for sale in my etsy shop. Priced at £36 each. They measure roughly 45 inches x 19 and come in 3 colour schemes (classic charcoal, rusty red, true teal). If you have any specific colour requests feel free to get in touch, I love to do little custom orders.

ps – Here’s a link to lovely Leanne’s etsy shop. Beautiful prints and more.

I made one of these yesterday! It’s probably the first time I’ve made it my mission to hunt down the yarn recommended in a pattern. Same colour, same everything. And I’m so pleased with the result. The pattern is in the Simple Knitting book I mentioned in this post (about the cushion cover I was working on – which I also just finished, pictured below).

Sorry for the grainy picture – it’s quite a dark room.

I seem to be prepping for a winter that feels like it’ll never come – The suns shining and we’ve been forecast a warm start to October… sigh… I’m really not a big fan of summer – I’m in my comfort zone when it’s cold and fresh. I went out and bought a new winter coat yesterday too hoping in some way that might influence a sudden and dramatic change in the seasons. Nothing so far.

I’m also having a bit of a wardrobe crisis. It’s full… and I don’t like any of it anymore… . Nothing fits properly and there are very few things I can wear and say honestly that I feel comfortable and like me wearing them. Other than take the offending items to the charity shops I can’t really see how to get out of the rut. I think I need a bit of a makeover but I don’t know where to start. I’ve never found it easy replacing bad clothes with good ones. A lot of the time fashion and current trends are against me and my body shape – this is a battle I’m very familiar with. I’m going to make it my mission to introduce some changes and it’ll probably help to document and blog about what these changes are and how the makeover’s going… So fingers crossed this works and I keep my camera on me at all times…

I’ll keep you posted!

I can’t stop making these blankets and I love making them BUT I have no more room left to keep new ones… so I’m going to sell them. Here’s the first stripey one available in the shop. Priced at £75 and measuring 60″ x 70″. A handy extra bed cover (for when this heatwave goes away again) and perfect for basking on the lawn or in the park. Made using Acrylic and Wool mix Aran weight yarns it’s easy to look after and machine washable (wash at 30 on a wool/delicate setting to be on the safe side)

Now time for some daft illya pictures (it’s been a while since the last.. how can something so small take up so much room??)

I finished this blanket yesterday. One of those jobs you think will only take a couple of hours to finish but it ends up swallowing the entire day in one gulp. It was worth it even though I did have a very numb bum by the time I stopped.

Also I’ve got some new cotton spools making their way into the shop very very soon. Cat related as requested. (Sorry for the grainy pictures – there’s a massive rain cloud sat on our hill) I’ll let you know as soon as they’ve landed in etsyville. Woop!

I’m starting to feel a little bit guilty about how much wool I own – it’s actually taking over my wardrobe…

I’m one of those folk who randomly buy a ball or 2 if I’m completely smitten with the colour/weight/texture of it. I won’t even have a project in mind but I’ll have faith that an idea or a pattern will come along and I’ll have just the right wool for it – this never happens. I’m also an ‘unfinisher’ – I have tons of half hearted knitting projects on the go, about 65% of them will never get finished but I’ll make sure the wool is stored safe and sound until it’s needed for something new. I also can’t stand throwing leftover bits away, so there is now a nice mixture of memories and fresh yarn to play with.

I’ve pulled out all of the random bundles and there are a lot of blues in my collection. I think I’m going to start knitting patches to use in a blanket (because I obviously don’t have enough of those). That seems like the perfect way to use them all up and have them on show, rather than tucked away. PLUS it’ll make room for more wool in the wardrobe ;)