Wooly things

I know i know! you wouldnt think this is a crafty blog, but I have been busy what can i say, and a good chunk of what i am making are gifts.

But anyway i thought i would share with you a little yarn stash i have been gathering for a few weeks

there was 6 balls of this, lovely Wendy Pampas Chunky.

wanna see what im making with all this wool?

i thought it was super cute, and picked my favourite colour, its a really easy knit but its now huge and i cant take it anywhere, coz its so heavy.

Its got quite hard work now, it has 60 stitches on the needle (just) and you do a sequence of K,P,K,K,P,K so i like to do it the 6 row sections or i will get lost but with so many stitches it takes ages to do those 6 rows lol.

So what else....

My crochet is coming along nicely, i think i have finally cracked it, using the fabulous Attic 24 pattern, i have used Baby Rico yarn on this. I really want to give this to my friend next saturday on her baby shower but will see.

Kool Kotton by James Brett, is a recent discovery and not by me by my chum Heather, she has just finished a lush blanket it in here. I plan on making a cushion with these for the new house, when i have finished the billion other things i am doing lol.

Speaking of James Brett, whilst i was home i stumbled across some lovely wool in my LYS (local yarn store, i just learnt that)

This is pure Merino (as you might of guessed) but instead of the £5+ you would normally pay for this from Debbie Bliss (love her but cannot afford her wool) this was £2.79 which i thought was pretty good, and the colours are really cute, i have a special project in mind for one of those colours, so may have to go and purchase some when i am next home, which is next weekend for baby shower. (thats sentence literally had no full stops in, i type how i speak sadly for you which is very fast without much pausing).

purple is my new favourite, and i love this Wendy mode chunky, its 50% merino and its about £2.75 a ball and you get loads, so i bought this for a project for me.

What else... I know it looks bad but i have been storing all this up.

This wool is a super super bargain, they have some fab colours and although its acrylic its really soft hence the 'special' i got this from LYS at home and it was £1.35 a ball bargain, it varies between £1.25 online and £1.60 in shops. But i really like it, i thought it was great for little baby cardigans, I plan on using this lots for like everything.

also some more needles, i normally pinch them off my mam if i dont have what i need but she said out of all her needles the 3 1/4 ones were the only ones she would use it she ever knit, so i felt bad and got my own.

something my mam swears by, she makes every baby item in wendy peter pan, so i spotted this lovely pink, and figured surely someone will have a girl so got it. This is what im planning on knitting little daisy cardigan

how cute, just hope im clever enough. This pattern is from this great pattern book that my friend has lent me

its really cute, i'll show you what i like...

not sure i am quick enough to make these before all the babies arrive which is mainly next month eeekkk!

Well thats about it for now, i am gonna be organised and blog now for tomo and then just press publish before i run out the door to the train station, where am i going now? why to see this lady of course

eeekk I'm super excited all the weekend birthday fun we are gonna have this weekend! Woo!

hooking

In the past week i have seriously become addicted to crochet, i feel like i have finally got the hang of it and this makes me jolly happy :)

As you know the amount of babies that my friends are currently 'growing' is insane. So as much as i like making baby cardigans and such, i loved the Ripple Blanket Heather had been making.

So i copied, and the lovely Lucy over at Attic 24 released this great pattern and i did it, i spent a night sitting and i managed it so hurray. So i wanted to show you how far i had got with it.

then it was kidnapped :(

and this is how it was looking yesterday.

I used turquoise, green, ice blue and cream here (the green is a bit green thou)

Im feeling pretty impressed with myself, i dont think i have made any mistakes, its maybe not terribly neat but i think it and i hope which ever baby this goes to likes it too.

So because I'm a all or nothing kinda gal i was like i can make everyone else, so i ordered a ton of yarn, i got it from here and here, its really soft and a good price.

So my lovely father in law went to robs work (where my parcels get delivered) and picked up my lovely new wool for me yippee!

So i need some opinions here

this is reserved for my lovely friends baby, who is going for the primary colours approach in her nursery, babies are not meant to be in pastel, they cant see it, they see bright colours apparently.

so do you like those 4 or..

5 with the turquoise in? i just dont know, answers on a postcard.

these are red, turquoise, grass green, orange, and petrol, (petrol is my fave)

4 colours or...

or 3? (red, turquoise, beige)

All of these babies are lovely neutral surprise babies, which is why i'm trying to not be too boy ish (which is easy without pink) and obviously none have pink because as soon as you put pink in its for a girl. Surely someone will have a girl.

so which colours do you think?

So in scrapping news, i have just received the June Sarah's cards kit which im dying to use and some fabulous blog work, so im gonna get going that. be back later with some new shop colours.

thanks for stopping by xx