Crafty Little Rat

  It’s 3KCBWDAY1 ! This is my first year participating and I’m so excited! “Colour Lovers Colour is one of our greatest expressions of ourselves when we choose to knit or crochet, so how do you choose what colours you buy and crochet or knit with. Have a look through your stash and see if there is a predominance of one colour. Do the same with your finished projects - do they match? Do you love a rainbow of bright hues, or more subdued tones. How much attention do you pay to the original colour that a garment is knit in when you see a pattern? Tell readers about your love or confusion over colour.” I must admit, I do have a tendency to stray towards the same colours in my knitting and crochet; heck I tend to stick to the same colours in life! Teal and other shades of blue play a very predominant role. I’d say potentially 3/4 of my T-Shirts have a blue hue in them somewhere, my living room has lots of various shades of blue. I love my living room curtains. The fawn seems ...

It’s been a while since I’ve updated- especially a knitting while. I seem to be on a roll at the moment finishing off lots and lots of small projects. September has so far seen about 8 F.O’s, very few of which are photographed yet! But lets go through the ones from October and the one or two I’ve successfully photographed from this month too! The problem is now that I’m working 5 days a week getting the time and the light to take decent photographs. I start work at 2pm, and on Thursdays I’m teaching Crochet in the mornings so I leave the house at 9am! If I have things to do in the morning before work it just all seems like a massive rush in order to get some photography time in the mornings and by 6pm it’s pretty dark, too dark to get decent pictures! Still, although I’d much rather be knitting/crochet and spinning all day it sadly doesn’t pay the bills. This is a very badly blocked(!) Helena. The pattern is from Knitty. I love the patten, but not too enamoured by the yarn colour it...

Normally by knitting nature I’m pretty monogamous; this month I seem to be anything but. Currently on the needles, 2 pairs of Socks for Rhys. I’m knitting 2 at a time (2AAT) and toe up. One of the two is Superba Bamboo and the second is made of Regia. This great plan means I didn’t have to divide my ball into two, but instead of second sock syndrome I have second half of each pair syndrome. I’m not even up to turning the heel yet. Luckily for me my week has between 4 and 6 hours of Knit N Natter each week, so I’m chugging along steadily and I know I will get there in the end. Second project that’s on the needles is a baby cardigan for a little boy. I know of no one who is having a little boy, or even of anyone who is due to give birth within the next 6 months but I’ve been suckered in by very tiny, very wee baby things that are awfully sweet. This is a pattern of my own improvising using the Sheep Yoke cardigan to get my increases right for the Yoke and then using the Owl cable patt...