There has been an elephant in my lounge.

No one has mentioned it, but a granny stripe blanket I started last September has been shoved down the side of the sofa for about 6 months.

We had a furniture shift round and I could see it, staring at me, willing itself to be finished, do I gathered all my crochet enthusiasm and set to it. 2 days later it's finished. I'm actually really happy with it and all it's blankety goodness!

I used cheap acrylic from Wilko's and the blanket weighs in at 740g so the total yarn cost was about £15. Well that plus the 11 months of hard and tedious labour!

Enough I hear you cry, show me the blanket. OK, here she is!

Seems like a long time since I posted.

And obviously it has been, lots has happened since then, another baby being the most significant event. Miss Alice was born in April at home, as planned.

Craft wise I've been doing lots of girls knitting, hurrah!

And I have a new toy!!

Exciting stuff, Mr Attitude starts school next week **gulp** so I'm hoping I'll have more time to get my craft on, my to do list is rather large!

Dolly Tai - Tastic

I had a couple of people interested in Dolly MT's last week and I'm really happy with how they turned out. I love the Russian doll fabric from Fabric Rehab, and the IKEA Jungle fabric is always great!

Long Time no Blog

I appreciate it's been months since I last updated the blog. I haven't entirely been resting on my laurels though, Sam has had a Hotshot from my Snugglebots yarn, and I seem to have caught the hooking bug!  I'm really enjopying Crochet at the moment and have added Hooty Hats to my shop. I love them, they're so cool looking. I did the first for a nappy swap on a forum I use as a little extra, but decided I loved them so much I would happily make more!

I seem to have grown more yarn as well since I last posted - some Thomas TNG yarn with a blue trim and some Gorgeous yarn I recently got from Knittybots

I've seem to have been consumed by all things owly recently! I've done a few owl applique T's of late, again inspired by my secret nappy swap, but other people seem to like them so again, I've added them to the shop along with a bunting t-shirt I made on a whim. Cute huh?!

I think that's probably more than enough for now, Happy Crafting...back to the Christmas knitting!

Yarn PORN!

Here's some pictures of some yarn I just popped up on Jo.Knit.Sew for available knits, lush aren't they!

I know, right!!   I can't wait to knit with them, if no-one wants them then Sam will get lots of yummy longies for winter!  I promised last time to show pictures of my holiday knits, so here they are. I love the Sleuthing Hoodie, and love even better that it fits both boys! My Multnomah has gotten lots of compliments too, so must be pretty!

 

Hello Blogspot My Old Friend

It's been aaages since my last blog post. In that time we've been to France where it rained. A lot. I managed to finish Sam's Sleuthing Hoodie - which fits Geoprge now and will probably fit Sam at Christmas, as I hoped!- and am onto the feather and fan section of a Multnomah. (photo's will follow at some point!)

My mum, unfortunately washed Sam's boardies, they ended up about newborn size, with the flexibility of cardboard, so they went into the bin. I was gutted, but mistakes happen.

Sam is also growing out of most of his longies now. He seems to have shot up recently and the rise on most of them is getting too short for over his night nappies. I think I see a wool splurge coming up!

I'm awaiting wool from both TNG coop and Snugglebots coop at the moment, as well as a couple of nappies and t-shirt from Tweedlebee and Tweedlebum, I'm hoping they arrive soon before I spend too much money we don't have!

In other news, I just became a Cheeks & Cherries Champ for the Cannock area, hopefully this will help spread the fluffy love locally, I'm quite excited about it. It's busy busy busy in the Jo.Knit.Sew household!

Wow, it's been a week already

I seem to have time on Fridays to update my blog, I should do it more often I know, but looking after 2 whirlwind boys who don't sleep very well in the evenings mean that time is pretty minimal!

Wasn't last weekend a scorcher?? We were so hot, the boys were scorchio and I needed to whip up some shorts for Sam, as all of his are a little *ahem* tight around the backside area.  I tested the sizing with some cheap IKEA fabric I'd got, the children's fabric at IKEA is so cheap it's brilliant. We love it in our house!  Turns out, a pattern hat fits Sam as trousers fits George as Boardies, who knew!!  Anyway, seeing as the pattern was the right size I made Sam some shorts out of some slightly posher IKEA fabric I'd bought.

Cute aren't they. I used this tutorial

I am falling a bit in love with making little reversible crossback dresses. Obviously I live in a house of testosterone and I'm not sure this will fit either me or the dog, so this is for the jo.knit.sew Facebook Shop. The fabric is just gorgeous, so girly, but the blue means it's great for those no so girly girls too.

 

 Last week I mentioned the Packer Boardies I knitted for Sam from some BBM wool. Well, here they are :o)