Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful day with your nearest & dearest wherever you may be x
So here it is.. my mystery free pattern gift to you all a musical notes hat.. one size fits most.. it measures approx 22inches around and is long enough to cover most of your ears :)
I have uploaded it to Ravelry and you can instantly download it FREE on Ravelry HERE
I hope you like it & I'd love to see your versions of it if you make one.
Merry Christmas
Fiona
x
Stuck for ideas for a quick gift to knit for Christmas presents? Well here's a little preview of my next pattern.. It is really easy & quick to make. If you're a fast knitter you'll have it finished in 1 evening but if you're not so fast like me it may take you 1.5! xox
As I confessed in my last post I have re-discovered my love of knitting :) This has been enjoyably costly as I then found I needed new knitting needles..
How come you always need the knitting needle you don't yet have to make a project?
I'm sure that doesn't happen to just me?! Anyway a long search (via internet) ensued to find my all time favourite knitting needle/s.. I have purchased Swallow Casein Pearl ones, wooden ones... Britany birch from the fantastic Life craft & fun Tazmanian Oak needles by Art Viva, colourful aluminium metal ones by Susan Bates to name just a few. Even though my collection has expanded exponentially.. even today I had to order some double pointed needles for the 1st of my Christmas patterns as yet again I didn't have the size I needed! I now can't wait for them to arrive. Don't you just love getting lovely craft parcels in the post? ;)
So what do you think my favourite needles are out of everything I've bought? I'm actually still undecided as they all have their pro's and cons.. which I might go into detail on in another post if anyone is interested. For the moment I'm loving my new needle stash & finding it not only inspiring but a pure joy to look at when I'm knitting away!
Well with all my new needles what exactly have I been designing & knitting?
The answer... Blanket squares... and LOTS of them!
The first half of my blanket squares project is finished and all the patterns have been uploaded to my Ravelry pattern store. It is a complete capital A-Z alphabet mapped out to make blanket squares in 3 sizes...
- 6x6inches/15x15cms in Aran (worsted weight)
- 5x5inches/12.5x12.5cms in DK (sport weight)
- 4x4inches/10x10cms in 4Ply (fingering weight).
This alphabet is the start of a whole pictorial alphabet series & it's the motifs i'm working on next. A few are done already.. A for apple, B for ball & C for car... but there's plenty more to come!
There's also a quick to knit Christmas toy coming shortly.. I'm knitting up the one to photograph for the pattern front cover right now! All i'll say at the moment is it can be done flat or in the round, you need red and green yarn of either 4ply/dk/or aran, it'll take you just over an evening to make & it'll be easy!
So what have you got on your needles; be they crochet or knitting at the moment?
Fi x
Eek! Slightly more of a colour run when it felted than I expected. The red isn't so Christmassy and the cream... well it's now more of a definite pink... even the snowman is the same shade (i'm not even going to bother photographing that). On the plus side the fringing felted extremely well and if this was done in a single colour it could work. But this wasn't exactly the overall look I was going for so I think this time it'll have to be a non felted pattern.
This is the snowman so far for our F's stocking. It's also in the machine and I'll add the rest of his details when I sew him into place.
Just a bit more to do. I re-did the toe section and I'm now doing some fringing around the top plus a little snowman decoration next before felting..
I'm making fast progress with F's Christmas Stocking now... Just a bit more to do height wise, then the fringed top and I think the toe section is a bit short so I need to re-do that part.
I just have to untangle my ball of cream merino DK that he got hold of before I realized.... it's amazing how a toddler can turn a simple doughnut of yarn into a tangled heap in minutes. I should have guessed as soon as he got very quiet! Anyway I've not long to go at all & I might even have it in the machine to felt by Wednesday. Looks like F is into Snowmen at the moment so that's what I'm going to decorate it with... more updates to come :)
I managed to rattle off a couple more squares in addition to finishing the songbird one. I'll write up the patterns longhand tonight as they're going off in the post tomorrow.
As soon as I can I'll pop patterns for all 4 in the free patterns page so you can have a go at them too if you want :) They're all 15cms square and made with 100% Cotton DK... so nice and quick!
