Baby Apple iSock

What any baby with tech parents should have! I'll make them in any colour to match your gadgets :)

My fancy new cardigan project

I've begun another mammoth project for myself. This one is going to be a lacy cardigan (I'll post a pic of the pattern later), but I'm a bit scared about knitting 50+cm of lace without making a mistake - I've discovered it is extremely difficult to unpick errors in lace knitting with all the yfwd's and k2,sl1,psso ... so fingers crossed I do ok. Not a project for doing late at night.

So far, I've knitted one sleeve and then it branches into the top half of the back (I've done the first 11 lace rows).

Pastel lacy cardigan

What a cute cardi for a new baby girl! I also have a hat to match.

Cute green camoflage stripy jumper

This newborn jumper is for Anna's baby - it's so sweet and I hope it will keep baby Jacob snug and warm during the UK winter. I had so much fun making this jersey - I'll definitely make this pattern again.

Baby hats

I went on a hat knitting spree for friends who had babies recently - these are two of the selection I made.

Duct Tape Checkerboard Handbags! For the geek in you...

I've discovered a sticky and fun new craft which requires shopping in the hardware store! Duct Tape bags! The sales person thought I was quite strange for buying 10 rolls of assorted tapes...

I'll make these to order - you choose the colour scheme :) They are so cool!

Preston and Amber looking cute!

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So cute in fact that they made it to the Honorable Mentions in the Knitty competition. Yay!

Preston's Space Invader Jersey gets another special mention!

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Yay! Well I didn't make it to the winning 12 photos for the calender, but it's very cool that 2 of my 3 entries made it to the Honorable Mention section!

The cute little brown cardigan

I finally finished this cute little brown cardigan! It is a tiny 1 month old size, but even though it was small, it took a while to knit. It wasn't the most motivating of patterns - you couldn't sew anything together until you had knitted all the pieces. Also I made it extra complicated for myself by using three balls of wool - two in the multi-brown, and one in cream. I had decided I wanted to do "two-rows pattern, one row cream" so that the cream stripe plus cream in the pattern wool gave a lighter overall effect. I think it's cute, and I'm giving it away this week!

Andrew's iPod cover

Andrew saw Dan's crocheted phone cover I made and wanted a custom made iPod cover for his birthday, so this is what I came up with. It features a hand hole at the bottom for the plug, plus a pocket on the front that fits earphones! I finished it off with a manly brown edging. iLike! I'll write up the pattern and put it on etsy soon.

Dinosaur pieces

The dinosaur I was so excited about ages ago has not been coming along very fast because other projects are more urgent, and also it's pretty boring to knit. It seems as though the pieces are designed from a sewing pattern and have probably been put into some program that automatically works out where to do the shaping. It doesn't appear to be the most logical knitting pattern, but I'm getting there. Theses pieces are the top and underbelly so i can sew them together and stuff it. At least then it will look like i'm getting somewhere.

Yellow and white baby hat

This one is for Preston's friend George's new sister!

My pink jersey

Remember my pink jersey being half completed? Well I went on a knitting spree and I finished it not long ago. Of course, now it's too hot to wear it...

Jaffa's Space Invaders jersey

Cute cute cute!

Preston's Important Things Bag

Preston has a small obsession with bags, and putting his important things in bags (including nice things he finds in shops! I've had to stop him shoplifting before). So i'm making his own Important Things bag out of some really thick yarn in Preston colours. I've adapted a Patons pattern from the new Accessories book I bought recently - it's in broken rib which looks and feels really nice. It's going to have a really long handle so it goes across his body.

Dinosaur

I started Preston's dinosaur (ankylosaurus) and here is the top piece of the body and head. Hmmm, doesn't look like much yet, but I'm sure it will be very cool when completed (after what I can only imagine is going to be hours and hours of sewing it together - there are over 50 tiny spiky things i have to make and sew to each end of the ridges you can see in the picture)...

My purple finglerless gloves

I was quite jealous of Dan's warm hands so I adapted the pattern to have an XOXOXOX cable down the middle (which you can't really see because of my bad lighting and photography). But my other hand is cold so I'd better hurry up and knit a matching glove.

Dan's cabled fingerless gloves

Fingerless gloves are the new beanies. You can still do stuff while having warm hands (and arms), like typing, writing, opening doors and eating!

My pink jersey

Here is the progress on my pink long sleeved jersey (picture somewhere below of what it will look like). It is all knitted in the round so it takes ages to knit a row, but worth it as I get the front and back knitted at the same time! The lacy middle panel is proving more difficult than I expected but I'm sure it will look nice when (and not if) completed.

Dinosaurs!

I couldn't help but buy a newly released book of totally cool dinosaur toys last week! I know I have a million projects on the go, but DINOSAURS... surely Preston needs a new toy. Here is a picture of the book (stolen from chemgrrl who is also working on one too). I've started the one in the bottom left corner, except mine is a dark maroon colour with a dark green thread through it (not sure what brand - it was in a giant box of oddments I bought on Zillion). There are more designs on the back, but these turn out quite large so I doubt I will be making a whole farm of them. I'll see.
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