Yarn feast

You know Christmas is coming when this much fluff wings itself your way!

Shunklies Kettle Dyed Superwash Merino Top

One Fat Slug Cashmere Sock Yarn! eee!

Tarndwarncoort Polwarth 8ply

Have worked out that locking my mailbox in the open position means the postie stuffs the yarn in and doesn't leave one of those sneaky cards that mean you have a wait another whole day!

Matt Smith Big and Cuddly Doctor Who - Free crochet pattern

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Just in time to make the perfect Christmas gift for a special friend ^_^ If you discover how to make a sturdy crocheted mop let me know - the fez is lonely :)

Difficulty
2/10 Good for someone with only a couple of basics

Yarn
Any 8ply yarn should be fine. Best to use colours all in the same brand if possible.

Measurements
30cm tall, with an arm span of 24cm (average, will change depending on thickness of yarn

Other patterns in the Big and Cuddly series
David Tennant | Rose | John Barrowman | Gareth David-Lloyd

Visit this pattern on Ravelry

Rain...

On weekends I like rain...rivers...puddles...following muddy paths...and lots of knitting ^_^

Mushroom Garden

I can't believe with how beautiful this yarn is! But I've bought way too much recently already :( All the photography in this shop is amazing! Take a look!

Mushroom Garden - 100 yds thick and thin super bulky Merino handspun yarn
by SpringtreeRoad

Mobius Mitts v2

New pattern at last! Mobius/Moebius Mitts for the knitters!

It's way too late and I'm playing in a netball final tomorrow so need to go to bed - but am so happy to have this finished :D

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Needles: 4.5mm needles, and a cable needle (or crochet hook)
Difficulty: 3/10
Stitches needed: knit, purl, dec knitwise, dec purlwise, knit into the back of a stitch, simple cables

If you haven't already you can see the crochet version here

The gloves pictured will be available in my etsy store soon if anyone would like them :)

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All rugged up

Hi everyone,
Has been a lovely sunny Saturday here in Melbourne - after a late night Harry Potter viewing yesterday I've achieved a few things

The 3rd 'draft' of creating knitted Mobius Mitts is going well - and I am half way through the 4th, working on pulling in the sts at the inside of the wrist to make a less bulky fold (how awesome is the Bendigo wool!)
Have decided that these will be knit flat so that beginners will also be able to give them ago without dealing with tricky mobius cast ons

During the week I also finally finished the rug I started in the early days of this blog - decided to just leave it at this small size as granny squares are really not for me! But it's nice to have it done :)



For the last months I have also been listening to lots of knitting podcasts but will dedicate some info on them to another post :)

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Treasury - Look at me

Thanks to fosterbk for this collection :)

Look At Me!!

Thrice the yarn

First I wanted to show you the sample I have knitted thrice so far for converting my crochet Mobius Mitts pattern into a knitted version. It has been fun to design for the challenge of it needing to be reversible - so I went with a 2x2 rib with two reversible cablesI also wanted to make sure it was an easy pattern so have decided to knit it flat, which is thrice as less fun than round and round the mobius loop but will make it a lot more possible for beginner knitters and hopefully still look interesting.

Also just needed to praise Bendigo Woollen Mills for being thrice as awesome as the basic yarn shops here, beautiful yarn, great value and for shipping my wool so fast that it arrived within 2 days of the order! 8ply Midnight Tweed and 12ply Red Tweed show below ^_^

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A colourful weekend

Had some fun with dye this weekend ^_^ It was raining most of Saturday so was the perfect excuse to get some crafting done. After the happy colours my first handspun absorbed last week...

I wanted to do some more dying but didn't have time to to do the spinning to create the yarn. My grandma had given me some of her stash and as I was washing it and adding it to ravelry I realised that the fluoro pink would be perfect for combining with the dye colours I currently own

Love how it turned out (just by adding blue!) and wish it would dry faster! I don't knit with 4 ply much though so I'm not sure what I'll be doing with this. Will need some experimenting :)

I also finished off quite a few other projects this weekend - will show you a couple of them for now:
Miss Scarlet Cloche
(have been listening to too many Phryne Fisher mysteries
Large Mobius Mitts
I have very small hands and felt it was about time I made some larger ones available :)

Tropical turtles

Hi everyone - I'm back from my Cairns adventure very sunburnt and a little starved of knitting

We did lots of awesome beaching, built some sandcastle forts and while spending a day snorkling off Green Island this lovely turtle came to munch its lunch just below us! Tim managed to get this pic with the underwater camera ^_^
Before this trip I thought nothing would stop me from knitting but I discovered that 35 deg humid heat really makes it impossible. I had some lovely cotton yarn with me but even that only got worked with on the plane flights. But it was probably good for me to take a break and rest my eyes and brainHave made up for this on my return by finally getting around to trying out some dying on my first ever handspun wool. It's pretty messy and uneven but I'm still very proud and can't wait to knit itI got my drop spindle from silversunalpacas which makes me drool over their delicious colours
Thanks to all those who bought patterns while I was away, was actually the most busy week of sales ever for me, thank goodness for wireless hotspots :p