Crafter's Corner

...Nice one Spruce....that looks lovely

 

Most excellent

 

thanks guys

 

No Spruce,
this one is just too gaudy...
Jenny

 

I will go and change for you Jens

 

I really like that, @Spruce !

Maybe I should hire you to do my arrangements for next year

 

I like that Spruce....very pretty!

 

Love it Spruce , can see you'll be taking orders next year

 

Just finished off this dibber i turned from a bit of pine. It's a present for a friend of mine.



Would have looked better if I had a bit of oak thick enough but I doubt it will get used.

(I hoping she knows what it is as well )

 

To while away an abysmal New Year's day, I finished this. I thought of Harvest mice enjoying a sheaf of golden corn such as this. It's a prototype using up some spare Arran yarn but it was obviously too speckled and it's difficult to make out the wheat ears. I made the grains using a "bullion" stitch which I think was more suitable than the technique that the pattern quoted.
I will get some plain, soft, light cream plain Arran and do it again

Jenny

 

Well I finished what I was knitting just before Christmas. I've been delaying putting the pics up because I'm not entirely happy with it. The yarn was a lot 'busier' than expected and it also knitted up in stripes which I didn't realise and could have done without. It was a 'King Cole' yarn and a nightmare, joins in the balls that didn't follow on with either the same dye shade or pattern so I had to keep breaking off and rejoining elsewhere to get the stripes to knit up right. There were also partly broken threads in the balls too. I will be having a word when I go back to the shop!

The neckline is a collar but I found it was better upright to create a slightly cowl neck. Anyway, I have to say it looks better on than off. I might use the pattern again but with a plain yarn.

 

It is lovely Sheal and well timed for this horrible weather!

 

Thanks Yvonne, I must admit it is nice and cosy to wear.

 

Just caught up with this thread...

@Jungle Jane ....that Dibber is amazing....i'd have been over the moon with that in my stocking...brilliant

@Jenny namaste ....another triumph Jenny...love the mice

@Sheal ....I WANT THAT JUMPER....great job...you soon got that knitted

 

Sheal,
that's a jumper you can justly feel proud of. It's unique and it has knitted up beautifully. If you can email the yarn producer - re. the breaks in the yarn, they may send you a credit note for future purchases but, I now realise the probs that one has with using a multi coloured random yarn when the inevitable join for a new ball occurs.
But I bet none of us would notice the joins anywhere - I certainly wouldn't. Its lovely...
With jeans or leggings and boots? Any maybe a single colour row of chunky beads?
Or too OTT for you?
Jenny