Bits and Pieces

Despite my complete lack of blogging I have actually been quite productive recently!

I have finished jumpers 3 and 4 (so only 8 to go!). I have managed to painstakingly unpick parts of jumpers 5 and 6 that I had messed up, so hopefully they should get finished sometime soon.

I have been sewing - I made another bag like the one in my last post and then went to a Dressmaking weekend at the Papered Parlour in Clapham. It was really good and I am quite proud of the dress that I made:

So maybe it is not that impressive, but I did design and make it in 10 hours!

I am really pleased with how the back turned out -

I have also got some grand plans for future sewing, here is a sneaky peek...

And finally I have been adding buttons to anything and everything - I am particularly pleased with how some nice wooden buttons look on my new shoes.

Owls - IntSweMoDo2010

I have finished my first jumper of the year - Owls . I love it and would like to make a cardigan version sometime in the future.


I am afraid that I have not been able to take one photo where you can actually see the cables which is a result of bad lighting and black knitting!


I can assure you that I am really happy with it and due to the lack of owl jumper pictures, here are a few other owl items around my flat. You have got to love those owls!

Selbu Modern and 2010 challenges

Over the Christmas and New Year break I travelled up to Newcastle, while I was there I managed to use Fair Isle in an actual item (a technique that I had only previously attempted it in a class). The pattern is Selbu Modern.



I am really pleased with the result. I used the same yarn (Easyknits) that I have just used to knit a forest canopy (which I am also wearing in the picture above) and a single ball of Rowan 4ply soft in a lovely deep brown.

Knitting this hat in fair isle allowed me to complete one of my New Years resolutions from 2009 to try some new knitting techniques. This year I have set myself an even bigger challenge - I have signed up to IntSweMoDo2010 (which stands for International Sweater-a-Month Dodecathon).

I cast on for my first jumper January 1st and hopefully will be blogging about it in the near future!