Knitted bits.

Still battling my way through the nausea, but I have been managing to knit, yay!

They aren't looking very exciting at the moment, but here are some WIP pics...and an almost WIP pic LOL.

Seamless Baby Kimono:



Baby Yoda Sweater: (I have run out of wool...I knew I would, heehee, good excuse to buy more!!)



Jolly Jumbuck wool that will become a pair of longies (just waiting on some 30cm circs):

Still here :)

Plodding along with my creaky pelvis and sore heavy belly (and I'm only 27wksish, sheesh!).

Not much news to share, but I did whip up this pair of longies for Indy. I think they are awesome if I do say so myself, LOL. They are in Utiku's Blueberry colourway, yummo!

More photos :)

More teasing here, hehehe.

Have finished 2.5 things for Ms Harriet now (the .5 is seaming that I am avoiding because its scary LOL) and cast on another yesterday...while contemplating another teehee.

So without much more blabbering, photos!



The first photo is an update of the ball of 'rainbow' wool that I posted the other day. And second photo is some very rainbow wool that I picked up the other day :)

Because I am a teaser and teasing is fun

(and it makes me look like I am actually blogging when I'm not really writing about anything interesting, LOL)

another sneaky peek....




This is about to become something else for Ms Harriet. The colours kinda suck in that photo, LOL, but it is supposed to be sort of rainbow coloured, not bright (because it is merino wool and possum fur) but still rainbow-ish...I just suck at taking photos of yarn, hehe. Will try to get a better one when the work is in progress ;)

And for fellow Ravelers (is that the right way to say that??) if you look in my projects you will find what it is ;)

Only 1 WIP?????

omg omg LOL

It feels weird weird weird....I only have 1 WIP on the go!!!

Yesterday I cast off on the shawl for MIL, today I weaved in the ends and gave it a good wash to get the lanolin out of it....and the dye came out too, DOH!!

Oh well, Jamie reckons that the colours look more like old lady colours that his mum would like (hey, he said it not me!!!).

Its not incredibly long...it just goes over the shoulders, I could have gone onto the 3rd ball that she gave me but the lanolin was killing me!! So sticky and itchy!!!
But it stretched a bit when I washed it, so it's all good :)

So here's the FO:



And that means that all I have on the go now is Ms Marigold! Can I get it finished before Christmas, that is the question!!!

update on the shawl...

Slowly plugging away at this...am onto a second ball, different colourway so I think its going to look interesting, but I think the colours are still close enough that it doesn't look entirely odd...iykwim. And I think it will look 100 times better once its done and the ladders are created etc.

Needs a bloody good wash too!! The wool is still really lanolinly, am finding that its starting to irritate my hands...

A(nother) new project

Have casted on the Sunday Market Shawl, meant to be a Xmas pressy for the MIL, I'm making it from some handspun she gave me a while back. She spun and dyed it when she first started spinning and says she has no use for it....I took it even though its pinky (refuse wool? Hell NO! LOL). So I thought I would whip it up in to something I can give back to her!

It has however, reminded me how much knitting on straights sucks....

Sunday Market Shawl

Or for those not on Ravelry (you poor souls, LOL) here...

Felted Checkers DONE!!!!!

Can you believe I have turned 3 WIPs into FOs today!!!

How unbelievable is that!!!

Now for the photos of the Felted Checkers Set:


I am crocheting a bag to put it in, but as far as I am concerned, Checkers Set is DONE!! Huzzah!

Btw, the wool I used is Spotlights Basic Harvest wool, I quite like it :)

swap soaker #1

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Soaker for swappeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee completed. I ended up doing 2....I couldn't help myself, LOL.

And I wasn't sure how this one would hold up, being Kmart wool....

swap soaker #2

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Originally uploaded by ~april~

Yay!! Soaker for swappeeeeeeee completed.

all that work and....

Well...I guess the photos don't make it all that obvious, but its too big!

So score one for Indy!

This was meant to be for my Nappycino Swap but I think it'll be a tad too big for a 3mth old if it fits Indy LOL!

Oh well. Its the first soaker I have ever made so that was...interesting. I like it :)

Oops! Forgot to say the pattern is the Punk Rock Knitters :)

Yum Yum Yarn!!!

Oh how lush is this!!!

I managed to score a custom dye slot at Dyelicious Hand Dyed Yarns, and this is what Kelly dyed up for me, isn't it fab!!!

I'm in love!!!!!!!

Thanks again Kel!

For Mel...the blanky, or lack thereof, LOL

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Originally uploaded by ~april~

Here you go Mel...are you impressed yet? LOL When I said it was being neglected I wasn't lying!!!
Will pick it up again soon (I hope).... :p

Checkers!!!

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Originally uploaded by ~april~

I really love this, lol.
I think I have done a pretty cruddy job of joining the strips together but am hoping that the felting will hide that a little (fingers crossed LOL). Just have to finish the border, make the pieces and we're ready to felt, yippeeeeeeee!

Soaker!

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Originally uploaded by ~april~

Here is the little bit I have done of the soaker I am working on. I got all the way to the decreases before realising I had cast on waaaaaaaaay too many sts and had to frog it, DOH!!!! (Though now I am freaking out that its going to be too small!!)

Ms Marigold progress.

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Originally uploaded by ~april~

Not a huge lot of progress I know...although it feels like heaps to me, LOL. Coming along nicely, albeit slowly :)

an update on the WIPs...

In all the stuff that has happened over the last few weeks I kinda got sidetracked from knitting and crocheting which is really not good!! Its not very long till Christmas at all and at the rate I am going, NO presents will be finished!! EEEEEKKKKK!!!

In the stress of the work stuff I lost the love for things wooly :( I just couldn't get into it, I would sit it there in front of me with the intention of picking it up and....nothing. I would look at it and think...maybe later? Later would come and go, and no knitting or crocheting done, OOPS!!

I am getting back into the swing of it though, Woolaholics Swap done and sent (yay!) and now tonight I managed to get a bit more done of the Felted Checkers set.

Hopefully tomorrow I will remember to get the camera out and take some snaps!

I love this checkers set!!

I am making a felted checkers set for my brother for Christmas, I am loving them so far!!!!
They are working up so fast, I reckon if I was able to sit and do nothing but crochet all day, it would be done in a day!

So here is a progress shot:


I am loving them so much I am neglecting every other project!

Off to look for Christmas things for the Woolaholics Christmas Swap!

A progress shot...

Ms Marigold is coming along nicely. I think I've even done heaps more since this shot was taken...
I have to say, it is nice to be able to knit something up in size XS, I'll be done in no time at this rate! Hopefully Majella will like it!


I am a bit stuck on Zakai's blanket...I don't like the way it is turning our so I think I might have to frog it and start over. I am afraid that it is going to turn out too small, but then I can't be stuffed doing a huge one....bad Aunty I am, LOL.
Yep...best pull that out now...

Casting on another project :)

Have been thinking about Christmas and decided I want to try and make as many pressies as possible, using as much stash in the process... I think handmade gifts are pretty special, I hope my family thinks so too!!
Knowing how long it will probably take me has prompted me to cast on one of the bigger projects I have on my list, Ms Marigold, for my little sister, definitely something I could see her wearing.

4 projects is a little...um...overwhelming, (I think? LOL) though, so I am pretty determined to finish one of them soon (preferably the bag) so I can start another project that will be heaps of fun, a Felted Checkers Set for my brother, lol!! I already told him I was making it, I couldn't help it, I had given a few clues because he seemed set on the idea that I was making him something crap, like a cushion(!!!) and he was stumped... I had to put him out of his misery, I was a bit worried that he wouldn't like it, he sat there for a while thinking about it and then told me he was thinking about where he could hang the board on the wall....like an art piece, how cool is that!!??!! So am heaps looking forward to doing that..ahh, knowing that it is being looked forward to and wanted :)