teeny weeny pants!

Well it has taken me a while to get my knit mojo resurrected after the mammoth haul that was the lace wrap! But today I finally have a new FO to share.

A good friend of mine is baking a new bub, so I have made her some newborn size longies. My goodness they are tiny! It was doubly exciting for me, as I got the Knit Picks Harmony interchangeable set for mother’s day, and decided to put them to good use and magic loop the whole thing, from cast on to cuffs, working both legs at the same time. Someone tell me why I had never tried this before? It was great!

The yarn is Panda Concorde, which I adore for its handspun look. And the pattern is Wonderpants.

The Epic Journey – Lace Wrap for Mum

With mother’s day approaching I decided this year I wanted to do something really special for my mother, who has helped me tremendously over the last 12 months. I recently discovered a new found obsession with knitted lace. Oh so pretty, but looks so difficult. I’m not possibly good enough to do that…. Or am I crazy enough? I think I am crazy enough. So whilst pattern surfing on ravelry I came across the Falling Leaves Wrap by Dory Brown and fell in love. I just needed the perfect yarn…. I soon found it at my LYS, araucania ranco solid in teal. Perfecto!

Now that week I had injured my back badly and was in a lot of pain. So loaded with pain killers and feeling sorry for myself I rushed home to cast on, throwing caution to the wind and diving in head first.  After the first few repeats, the pattern became very easy to work, and it began to grow at a nice pace. WOW! I was knitting PROPER LACE!

So after a few weeks i was finally ready for casting off and blocking. And without further ado, the photos:

Pre- Blocking

the blocking process in action

Finally Dry

quickly being modelled

Blocking is amazing. while it was a huge pain in the bum, the whole piece changes when it’s done. I couldn’t beleive it. Magic!!

First Lace Adventure – A Scarf

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I was invlolved in a magic yarn ball swap with a bunch of friends. I was so luck to receive the most amazing handspun yarn from The Bird and the Fish. So deciding I needed to do something special to do the yarn justice, I pulled out my stitch dictionary and tried a lace diamonds pattern. And I’m really happy with the result!

super funky socks

Well, I decided to make myself another pair of socks, but instead of using the double-pointed-needles-of-death this time I tried magic loop. Oh WOW, much easier! Never ever going back to DPNoDs now!

Anyway, took me awhile to get the second one finished but here’s the pics:

The pattern was from DROPS.

cork gnome

Well it was my birthday this weekend gone (woohoo) and during the clean up my eldest found a champagne cork and asked me if I could do something with it for him, because he liked it. Then I remembered this very cute pattern I had stumbled across on Ravelry late one night and so after a bit of searching printed it out and got to it. I actually managed to magic loop this one which is a new achievement for me (no more blasted double-pointed-needles-of-death). I think he is very cute, and my son requested I leave the face blank (he is a very particular child LOL)

long time, no post

Well 2008 is finally over and 2009 is here. I haven’t posted in a whil but I can show some things I made as Christmas gifts.

Another coffee cozy:

And a calorimetry:

Now my coffee is cozy!

I really love small projects. It’s like knitting prozac. Had a stressful week so last night I sat down with a pile of small projects and got through two. This is the first one. It took a bit over an hor and I am really happy with how it looks. I double stranded some Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton on 4.5mm needles. The pattern is Patty by Jen Raymond. I think I will be making more of these for Christmas gifts!

Something different…

It’s girly….And it’s tiny!

A friend of mine has just had a baby girl. And I have been itching to make one of these for a long time. So I whipped out my needles and got to work. The pattern is the Tikki Rainbow Dress.

Getting Back In The Groove

It’s been a while since the lat post. I have had a really busy few months with getting married, going on holidays and trying to get life back to some kind of normal. And I hadn’t really felt much like knitting. But I picked up the needles this weekend and made some soaker shorties for T. The pattern was the Spare Ribs Shoaker which is available as a free Ravelry download. The designer offers it for free but urges yu to download to the Bonnie Babes Foundation whicha re an amazing foundation that provide help for families coping with miscarriage and stillbirth. The pattern was quick and easy, and fit is fabulous!

Fish Tawashi

I had been meaning to make more tawashi for ages now. And last night I was feeling somewhat stressed and wanted something quick to do and easy too, so I could zone out a bit. So I went and dug up some acryllic and made the Wishy Washy Fishy Tawashi. It was super easy and fnished in less than an hour. The boys have decided that it should live in the bathtub and that they should have one each….So I guess I will be making more.