GIVE A GIRL SOME FROGGED YARN…

and she’ll start knitting 🧶

The other day I was frogging a little something that I nearly finished 40 years ago. Some might ask why didn’t you finish it? Well I’m a touch bigger than I was 40 years ago and, frankly, the sleeves were very inpractical!

But the yarn won’t be wasted! I have started knitting childrens’ hats for Knit and Natter. And the beauty of this tale is the hats are being made using the same pattern book 😄 although I might add a pom pom 😉

Plenty of frogged yarn so I should get to make lots of woolly hats.

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

Daily prompt

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

I don’t usually answer these but after being down in the dumps I do have a few ideas:

Craft and creativity – keeping hands and mind busy making something.

Exercise – a new one for me, I am the original couch potato, but its surprising how good you feel after a nice walk or jumping around in an exercise class.

Work – fills a good chunk of time and I’m so tired afterwards that I sleep like a baby.

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

HAPPY MOTHERING SUNDAY 🌷🌷🌷

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

NO MORE GLUM CHUM…

It’s been too long!

It’s been a couple of years since my last post but thank you to those who have checked in over that time, it means a lot ❤️ Grief and feeling sorry for yourself sort of take over and before you know it two years have passed. I have thrown myself into work which fills up a good chunk of time and is tiring so I sleep well.

I’m trying to get my head around the whole JetPack thing so please bear with…

A bit short on projects but my father was clearing out a cupboard and found loads of half finished knitting. This one was mine. I must have started and forgot about this 40 years ago. I still have the pattern but a bit too vintage for my taste. And I seem to remember (yes I made and wore a garment like this) the sleeves are terribly inpractical, I was dipping them into everything 😱

I have my little “helper” still,

*Loves to run off with a knitting needle 🤔*

Projects to follow, if the cat gives me back my needles!

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

HAPPY EASTER

egg-cellent greetings…

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

KNIT AND NATTER 3

25 March 2024

Claude is a trauma bear 🐻 My offering today as well as half a dozen little hugs bears. The lady only wants the knitted pieces for the hugs’ bears, so just a pile of stockinette with dangling ends. I must make one up myself just so that I can see a final outcome!

A dreary Monday made better by the click clack of needles, friendly chatter, tea and cake 😄

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

BABY KNITTING

We have a new neighbour ❤️

On hearing there was going to be a new arrival a few doors down, I rather rashly bought a subscription book before Christmas. Being me, I didn’t start knitting until the baby was due.

Now I bought the kit from knit in a box, I have bought things from them before but always after the reveal, I bought this before the reveal. I avoid variegated yarn as a rule! Loved the pattern (King Cole) but got into a pickle with the colour changing. Sewing up was a nightmare! I completed the button band side without incident, but the other side, oh my goodness!!! Firstly, I caught myself trying to sew the sleeve in upside down and, then, when I finally put it in the right way up, I had sewn the sleeve in inside out 😱

Sadly I didn’t realise this until it was all sewn up, after lots of frogging 🐸🐸🐸 I put it to one side for a couple of days – I really wanted to throw it away! Anyway, I came back to it and sewed it all up as it should be.

Variegated yarn never again, my eyes just aren’t up to it 🤔

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

KNIT AND NATTER 2

11 March 2024

Trotted along to knit and natter today, I’m on a late shift today. Lots of ladies with needles clattering. We have been asked to make some tiny little bears for Hugs, a charity supporting mums who have suffered miscarriage or still birth. So I have taken the pattern and will have a go this week.

You’ll be pleased to know that there was plenty of tea and cake, and much of the chat revolved around the up and coming craft fair where there will be a cake stall 😊

Not such a big haul as last time but only 2 weeks between visits, and I’m knitting a gift for a newborn a few doors down (which is a tale for another day).

A pretty grim and overcast day here, but spring flowers are out, so hopefully, spring is just around the corner 🪻🌷⚘️

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

KNIT AND NATTER

26 Feb 24

My new year’s resolution was to attend knit and natter at the local church as often as work would allow. I attended the first 2 Mondays in January and then what do you know I was rota’d to work every other Monday 😩 but I wasn’t idle I put my needles to good use so that I had something to take in when I finally got there.

I had a lovely couple of hours drinking tea, eating cake and, of course, knitting with the lovely ladies at All Saints Church this morning. I’m finding that focusing on my needles is helping me not to dwell on sadder thoughts. However, there is a limit to how many things you can knit for personal use, so I’ve made trauma bears, little cardies and tiny hats for preemie babies. Counting the rows and stitches focuses the mind and with such small items there is almost instant gratification at having completed something. And then rewarded with tea and cake 😊