On the needles I have the Eyelet Yoke Cardigan for my eldest daughter. It's VERY much like the Eloise cardigan that I made for my youngest. I found this amazing yarn in my local yarn shop and I just had to make something out of it. It's Monsoon by James C. Brett

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FO Friday: Eloise cardigan and Dino plush

At last!!! I can take part in FO Friday :D 

As you can probably tell, it takes me an age to finish things. My problem is that there are too many things out there that I want to make so I have far too many WIPs on the go. 

Anyway onto my FO items (yes plural)

First up is the Eloise cardigan I was making for my daughter. 

I'll get some action shots later, but I should warn you, it's a tad snug on her *cries*

The other FO item isn't knitted or crocheted, but I thought some of you might like to see it anyway. I've made this for a friends little boy who just turned 3yrs

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Also linking to Creative Friday with Natural Suburbia 

WIP Wednesday

I picked up the Eloise cardigan again and managed to get it back on track. It isn't far from finished...then I just need to sew it up :)


I've done a bit more of the rainbow blanket but it's on hold for now until I finish the cardigan and a present for a friends son.

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Crafting is infectious!

Check this out, my husband is crafty! 

He made this super cool wallet for my step-dad (Robert) who turns 50yrs next week. I really wish we could get that really cool duct tape you can get in the U.S. but it's not available here and too expensive to ship, but I think this is fab all the same. 






Last night I had a few friends over for food and drinks. We're all crafty ladies, barr one, but that one barr wanted to make a bracelet for a party she was going to, so we all sat around knitting, sewing, crocheting, making jewellery. 

I had a play with the many many beads in my friends bead box and made a rainbow bracelet....just because. 

The bracelet and blanket I worked on

I've been away camping so I've been plodding along with the ripple blanket. I have a teeny weeny obsession with rainbows at the moment :| 

No matter what I do, I cannot get the green to show it's true shade. It looks like a pastel green in the pic, but it's more like bright lime green. 

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WIP Wednesday

Well I have been slowly plodding along with the Eloise Cardigan, but today I lost the will to live with it. I started the process of connecting up the 5 seperate pieces. Spent an age working out the mathematics of where to do my decreases, only to find that I didn't have the 199 stitches that I thought I did and after the decreases I had way too many stitches on my needles. I don't know how this happened, I've been very careful to follow the pattern exactly, even noting down my progress as I went along. Anyway I tried to rectify it by decreasing again on the next row, in the hope of having the same amount of stitches as two sizes above, just so the pattern works out and somehow ended up with less stitches than that size. At this point I put the project down and started a new one...lol 

I will pick it up again very soon, but I needed a break from the headache I was getting. 

Here it is in it's annoying glory

The new project I started is the Attic24 Ripple Blanket. I've been dying to make one of these for ages. I plan to make it in the colours of the rainbow. Here is the start of red. 

 

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WIP Wednesday

I have quite a few WIPs on the go atm, they've been WIPs for a while and I've decided I have to finish them all before starting anything new...so I thought I'd share. The only exception to this rule is a pair of shorts I've promised my eldest daughter, which I will make for her soon.

So on to the WIPs

I'm still plodding along with Anara's cardigan. I'm currently knitting up the first of 2 arms...after the arms, I can put them all together and start the Yoke.


I started this Hiking scarf about 3 years ago :\ I WILL finish it before winter.


I started making my eldest a pair of trousers from an old pair of trousers I'd slimmed out of. I started these about a year ago...I'm determined to get these finished. The plan is to add an elasticated wasit and put some pretty fabric at the bottom of the legs.


I started making my youngest daughter a quilt before she was born. She's 2 now...haha I'll still finish it, but I might give this to my sister if she has a girl next (she's due in December)


I started these socks at the beginning of this year. I've always wanted a pair of handmade socks, so I'll finish these at some point.


and I started this coat for my youngest when she was 1yr. It's 18-2yr size so I'm going to finish this next and hope it still fits


This is what it should look like when finished, albeit with different fabric


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