Patchwork Santa Progress Dec 18th 2011

Here is my progress so far (it is taking longer than I ever imagined!)

Here is what he will eventually look like:

I have decided to not do the yellow oval and just to continue the holly border all the way up. It has taken a bit of working out as to what stitches in the border were missing where the yellow oval overlapped BUT I think I have worked it out successfully for the section I am stitching right now :0)

I am pleased with my stitching and I hope you have enjoyed looking at my progress...

Hello Kitty Cushion Finished...

The cushion finished and Gina loved it...

My Mum helped me to make it up on the sewing machine...

I'm proud of how this turned out as this is the first cushion I have made...I plan to make a few more with some Christmas designs that I have done... 

I hope that you like the finished item :0)...

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Hello Kitty Finish!

Yay ~ I've been working on this for my best friend Gina...

She adores Hello Kitty and she's moving house next weekend so this is going to be a pillow for her new room...

 This is the fabric I'll be using to make the pillow...

I  hope you like my most recent project...

I'll put another photo up when I've made the cushion...

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QS Coral Addiction WIP 10th March 2011

Here's where I'm at now...she looks so beautiful...only another 100-200ish stitches on this page to do...

If you've had a look at my blog - thank you...

I hope you like my progress...

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QS Coral Addiction WIP 6th March 2011

This is where I was at on the 2nd of March:

& here is where I am at as of the 6th of March:

 I'm practically finished her hair on this page...(almost) I was confetti stitching yesterday to bring me to this stage...on the pink section underneath the yellow 'blob' there is krenik thread which is sparkly...not that you can really see from that photo...and her eyes are emerging too...

Tonight's work I think shall be more confetti stitching around her face to the left and right and possibly her eyes...this is one of the pages with the most stitches on it...when I finish her wee face I shall go onto the page to the right as there is more of her hair in this page...

I'm loving her progress, she's beautiful and even the masses of confetti stitches aren't bothering me too much...just making progress slower...

I hope that you like my progress if you've been kind enough to look at my blog...

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QS Coral Addiction Work in Progress

3 or 4 days work on my newest HAED design...

Here's a bit more of a close up...

I'm enjoying this design, it is being done on 28 count Polstitches opalescent evenweave - 'Shimmering Seas'...

I've had the backgrund removed so that I am only stitching the main mermaid and her coral below, this is so you can see the hand dyed fabric below...

I'm not sure how many stitches this one has because each page is not a full page of stitches, I might count one day and see how many there are so I can work out how many I've done and also got left to do...

(edit 4/3/2011) I've had a bit of a count today and this design is 27,699 stitches...with the background if I'd chose to stitch that it would've been 42,222...

Thanks for looking if you have done...

Finished Scarf Complete With Tassels!!!

I finished my scarf at long last. I had to wait for another ball of wool to come from eBay as my local stockist was waiting on a delivery which was delayed...the complete scarf is 70inches long, lovely, chunky and cosy...I'm now working on a matching hat...

Scarf Progress 5th Feb...

I've knitted a substantial amount more as you'll be able to see from the picture...

I'm about halfway through my wool aswell (I weighed it lol)...so I may need another ball so that I can make it long enough and do tassles etc...then I may knit myself a hat too (following a similar pattern to the one that I knitted for Abby!)

I hope you like my progress if you've been kind enough to view my blog...

Chunky Knit Scarf...in progress...& Abby's finished knitted bits...

I am starting a chunky knit scarf for myself...I plan to add tassles and crochet flowers when I have knitted the main bulk of the scarf...I'm not sure just yet how long I am going to make it...I think I'll just knit until I feel happy with the length...if it goes well then I plan to knit one for my best mate as well (for Christmas - oOoOo organised...) as the wool also comes in a pink/red/orange ball too...

Wool: James C Brett - Marble Chunky (blues, purples & greens) - beautifully soft and subtly changes from one colour to the next!

Needles: 5 1/2mm

Stitches: 47 (1 each end for selvage)

Pattern found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20071117054344/www.knitlist.com/96gift/giftsscarf.htm

I hope that you like my new project & choice of wool...

I am enjoying knitting it so far even though I've only done a small wedge...

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...Abby's Knitted Bits...

 ^^^ Close up of border ^^^ 

^^^ Mum's Knitted Cardigan ^^^

^^^ Mum's Knitted Pixie Style Hat ^^^

 

^^^ Everything Together...^^^

^^^ My Crochet Flowers On Abby's Hat...^^^

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Baby Hat For Abby...

I wanted to knit a hat for baby Abby(my cousins new little one) to use up some of the wool I had left over from the blanket I made...

I wanted an easy but effective pattern and I found one here: Baby Hat on Two Needles - I kept looking for patterns and finding them knitted up on circular needles, I wanted something simple using just 2 needles and the pattern I've linked was perfect.

Here is my attempt (I even added two crochet flowers which I did myself...): 

I'd do another, I started this last night (probably just after tea at about 7pm) and finished it this afternoon :0) 

I hope you like my little project...

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Baby Blanket All Knitted Up & Sewn Together...

Yay...

All knitted up and sewn together...now for a crochet border which I am getting on with today with a bit of help from my Mum. Then we will back the main knitted bulk of the blanket with a fleecy material (it was an old bed sheet which now has a couple of holes - being thrifty & re-using what we've got laying around) and we'll be good to send it to my cousin!!!

I hope you like my blanket now it's all stitched together. Its been a real labour of love and I've enjoyed every moment of my project which is a bit different from the norm that I do!!!

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5X5 blanket all stitched up...

I've so far knitted enough squares to make a 5X5 blanket...and I've stitched it together...here it is:

I have made a slight change in my design - I am no longer making it 7X9 but instead 7X7 with a crocheted border...I do have a photo of almost all my knitted squares for my 7X7 blanket but as yet I have not stitched together the outer squares...(as you can probably tell)

I have (as you can see from the photo) another 6 squares to knit, then I can start stitching my outer layer of squares onto the 5X5 blanket...then I'll almost be done...only the crocheted border to do...I'm very excited!!!

Thanks for looking if you have done. I should be finished my blanket this week maybe? Then I can go back onto the HAED...

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Cream & Pink Squares...

Cream & Pink squares ^^^ at the moment it's 5X5...I'm hoping to make it 7X9...

That means another 24 squares knitted to make it 7X7 and then another 14 (7 along the bottom and 7 along the top) to make it 7X9 so 38 more squares in total...

I've done 25 so far, so got a bit of a way to go yet...

I hope that you like my progress so far if you've been so kind to view my blog...

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Middle of Baby Blanket

I have finished all the middle squares for the blanket...
My cousin gave birth to a baby girl on the 12th & her name is Abby...
So I have got another shade of pink and I am making the majority of the blanket in cream and pink BUT wanted to use the other blue and pink squares as didn't want to waste them...

So here is the centre of the blanket as it stands at the moment...

I hope you like my progress so far...

I have another 16 cream and pink squares that I haven't photographed yet...
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Knitting...2011

Making a baby blanket for my cousin's new baby...

Baby hasn't arrived as yet and my cousin did not find out if it was going to be a boy or girl (she already has one of each)...
I am knitting squares in cream, pink and blue at the moment...using different types of stitch...I have 5 done already and I'll need 54 in total (to make a 6 by 9 blanket) plus a crocheted border...

 

^^^ Wool colours...

 

^^^ 3 plain knitted squares...

 

^^^ 2 knit on one row, pearl on the next...

(bit curly at the edges but will be okay when stitched together in a blanket!)

 

^^^ Basketweave squares...knit 4 stitches, pearl 4 to end - do 4 rows of this...

THEN once the 4 rows are done, knit where pearl stitches were before and pearl where knit stitches were...looks like a little checkerboard...the pink one was the 1st square that I knitted and I was just playing around, its a bit different from the cream one...

That's it so far...

The End of 2010's Finishes/WIPs...

Finished American Smooth for my Mum in time for Christmas...it now takes pride of place in our hallway...

 Framed version: 

Also made some progress on my HAED Moon Glow...I'm now onto page 5, this photo was taken after I completed page 4...

This was my progress before I finished page 4...

I'm hoping to have page 5 finished within the next couple of weeks. I'm just over halfway done and it is only a partial page...

I'm now back at home in Lowestoft rather than living in Crewe, please see this post if you're interested in the drama surrounding this situation...http://www.craftbubble.com/index.php?do=/public/forums/display_topic/id_21931/Im-moving-again-soon/

I plan to try my hand at some knitting this year I think...I want to make a baby blanket for my cousins impending arrival...might have to ask my Mum to help me...

New Year New Start...just got to find a job now...

 

Wish me luck!!!