Started in 2020 but finished in 2021…
I finished the knotty cowl the week before last and got it posted.
I have given it to my sister but I do think it will be rather warm but it was an interesting set of stitches.
Can’t get round to sticking to a big project so still keeping my hands busy making animals and storeage ideas.
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
A new year, same old challenges. ..
January has been a month full of challenges. We have had floods and heavy snowfall as well as being locked down.
COVID-19 has been rampant so other than work and a bit of walking life has been spent indoors. A great excuse to attack the stash some might say? But my time has been spent finishing off Christmas presents and doing bits and pieces.
I have been making little woodland creatures from a kit supplied by Let’s Knit.
And I have been dabbling in storeage:
Pattern taken from Let’s Knit issue 166.
The larger basket is made with double moss stitch and the small one is made in moss stitch. They are both made from one cake of Aldi yarn originally bought to make a cowl.
New month looking for new inspiration with the stash 🤔
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
Instagram lessons? ??
Not really in the mood to get stuck into anything major at the moment so I made this little hedgehog from one of the many kits littering my house🐗
And I feel I have to let people know that as it was Burns Night on Monday we had haggis for tea on Tuesday (I was at work on Monday). Now I am sure most of you know it was Burn’s night and no one is really interested in what we had for tea but here comes the point of the story.
As we were finishing the haggis B announced he hadn’t realised that the haggis was actually an animal! N and I looked at him aghast! When we had recovered the power of speech we explained that it was made from offal and barley and that in the past it was wrapped up in a sheep’s stomach etc. But apparently B had read on instagram that it was an animal 😲
Since then I can’t get ideas of what a haggis might look like in the wild?
Exasperated woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
Idle musings…
On one of my walks around Jubilee Gardens last week I found this:
I don’t know how many times I have walked past this without noticing the owl. Time for a close up:
What a handsome chap. I think he may be a barn owl?
Meanwhile at home I have made this little owl from one of the kits in my stash.
I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess as to what type of owl he is? Kamikaze Owl !!! I am going to give him to my mum who used to be a Brown Owl, not the feathered kind that hunts small rodents but a Brownie Guide pack leader.
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
Every day is a school day…
Temptation got the better of me last night. I really needed a change so I thought I would have a go at some storage cosies, see Let’s Knit issue 166. My thought being something small and quick using bits from my stash.
The cabled cosy was the intermediate level cosy and it is covering a jam jar to make a decorative pot to store crochet hooks and small scissors. And I am quite pleased with it, so pleased in fact I thought I would have a go at the beginner’s cosy. Now I have been pulling my hair out with this one!!! It is a mock cable and quite frankly I am struggling! All that dropping and making stitches, what a faff much easier to do the cabling😉
Hoping that your projects are less frustrating.
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
Posted yesterday, received today so I can show and tell…
The chunky cardi is off my needles and away 😃 I have actually made 2 of these for N’s daughters. Sadly one of the girls had a bit of a wait for her’s but I finished it on Saturday, blocked Sunday and posted yesterday🎁
I bought some better hangers for Show and Tell purposes but N and B have squirreled them away for their own outfits – BOYS! So I had to make do with one that the dry-cleaning came back on 😣 It doesn’t hang that well🤔
The pattern came from Let’s Knit and is made using Stylecraft chunky, parchment. The pattern is worked over 10 rows:
Rows 1-3 Knit, rows 4, 6, 8, 10 k2, p5, rows 5, 7, 9 Knit
The nice thing about chunky knits is they knit up quickly although as I was nearing the end not quickly enough. And then there was the issue of buttons!!! Happily I bought enough when my local wool shop was open between lockdown 2 and 3!!!
Celebration time, all ready for packing up and posting 🎈🎈🎈
A couple more items to finish and then the Christmas knitting is all done and then I can fill my head with something new 😄 But my knitting basket looks almost empty now the chunky cardi has gone😉
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
A winter walk 🌫🌫🌫
The big announcement that most of us were expecting was made last night – another lockdown to contain and control COVID!
I have worked from home today doing admin. Not one of my strong points!! However I did take a break at lunch time for a walk. I didn’t want to leave it until I had finished because it would be dark and very cold.
The river is slowly going down.
The gulls are all lined up on the riverside railings. I don’t know if that means that the weather is bad on the coast or that they are too well-fed inland? Probably the latter!!! I lived in Morecambe (an English seaside town) when I was a student and this reminds me of Morecambe in the winter, no one around and lots of gulls waiting for some unsuspecting soul to get takeaway fish and chips😮
Finally I had a walk around Jubilee Gardens and just look at this rose in winter – very Beauty and the Beast!
So a bit more admin and then I can get back to my knitting. Still plodding on with my Christmas knits, so tempting to start something new – I really do have the attention span of a gnat – but if I do the Christmas gifts will be written off until next year so plod on Jane 😄
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
The scarf that never lets me down!
It’s quite chilly here at the moment and we keep having the odd flurry of snow, happily after last week they haven’t amounted to much ☃
Walked into town this morning to get some fresh air and pick up a newspaper.
I took this photo to show off my scarf. It must be 20 years old. My much younger sister made it for me when she was still at school. She does more reading these days than knitting, check out ladybookdragon.
Such a shame!
Look at this scarf, isnt it fab? Worked in garter stitch with 4 little tassels at the corners. I understand she got bored of making them 😂
But it keeps me nice and snug.
Who else has a favourite gift that has stood the test of time?
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
2020 done and dusted. ..
Happy New Year to you all! 🍻
I was very quiet on the blogging and knitting front during December. We are into a new year and I am still plodding on with my Christmas knitting 😶 My bad back has really set me back but happily I am much more mobile now and can sit for longer and knit yay…
Nothing completed in December so sadly no show and tell.
The river was rising just before Christmas. It is slowly going down, leaving very muddy footpaths along the banks. We have had snow this morning but not enough to cause problems.
And just look how close to the river wall the swans are …
Resolutions :
Finish the Christmas knitting and get it posted with suitably grovelling notes.
Pay more attention to blogville.
Woolly wishes,
Jane ♡♡♡
Pom pom joy…
My back is starting to feel a bit more like it so I have managed to start knitting again in short bursts. The Christmas knitting will be late this year but as the government cancelled Christmas yesterday I don’t suppose it will make too much difference 😥
I have had a lovely afternoon watching the Royal Ballet The Nutcracker on an arts channel – Christmas starts with the Nutcracker. While watching the ballet I have been having fun making pom poms!
Not sure if I can rescue this one though, don’t think there will be much left if I start trimming it!
Hopefully my posts will be less haphazard now I am more mobile.
Woolly wishes everyone,
Jane ♡♡♡
WOOLLY WEDNESDAY 