I feel like telling the whole world, so please phone your mum for me: I've finished my gloves!! Pretty big occasion, you know. I even managed to complete the second one in time for the last afternoon light today, so here they are:
I wanted a bit of a challenge for my second knitting project, and it turned out to be just that. I had to learn how to knit in the round, do cables, picot cast-off and the thumb. In the end the tumb was probably the hardest, everything else I figured out with YouTube tutorials. Cables were the biggest surprise; who knew that something so complicated-looking could be so simple?
My two tips for these gloves (if you feel like knitting them too) would be: cast off the picot edge quite tightly or use smaller needles, and learn how to do the
Magic Loop if you're scared of using 4 needles (although you'll still have to use them for the thumb). You can find the pattern
here.
It's an embroidered handkerchief, but not just any old type. The stitches are all worked diagonally, with a single thread, and it's called 'petit point'. For a reason. Look at the bottom photo for scale...
Wouldn't you just love one of these this weekend instead of a box of chocolates? My sister Danelle and her husband made it using an old wheel rim. Clever, hey! Have a look at their designs here. I often wonder what we would get up to if we all (there's another creative sister, Wilna) lived in the same country!
There's a new girl in town; Molly. I spent a good part of Saturday happily cutting and matching little squares to make these soft foam-filled blocks for her room. I suppose it's the closest I'll get to quilting for a while, even though I'm dying to make something like this.
