Now I have a matching beanie!

Yay! I finally finished Brandon's beanie. I was a bit worried cos I didn't have a pattern & really wasn't sure how to decrease the top bit in a K2, P2 & in the round on DPNs. (doesn't that sound impressive?) Anyway I picked it up yesterday & just winged it really & if I do say so myself, I did a darned fine job! hahahahaha... No really, I was expecting it to look horrible but it came up really good (even Stuart said so!) & it looks like I just might have used a pattern! The only thing is that it could have been a little longer but who cares, I have enough wool to knit another one if I want to.

So I am very impressed with another finish for the weekend. I have now started yet another scarf which I think will be the nicest one I have done yet. I have the wool out for the Kaffe Fassett socks, but the only problem there is I have to find the pattern to go with it, plus the needles I got for it. Easier said than done & could mean I have to tidy up some of the piles of accumulated stuff. I don't have time to put stuff away! Too many other things to do. I had better go & do them I suppose. It has turned out rather sunny today so I am trying to catch up on washing! How does one mini person create so many dirty clothes!

Mandy

If you're happy & you know it clap your hands.

If you're happy & you know it clap your hands.

If you're happy & you know it then you really ought to show it,

If you're happy & you know it clap your hands.

PS... Congratulations to Mark Webber on his first Grand Prix win! Yay!

More stripey socks!

Yay! I have finally finished my next pair of socks. More of the self patterning wool from Spotlight. It's pretty cool stuff really but interesting to get the second one starting in the same spot as the first! Even so they are almost the same but not quite. Though no one would really pick up the differences, but they are too minor to care about as far as I am concerned! lol They are fun & really quite easy as they are mostly all just basic knit stitches. Because they are stitch in the round, you are only working from the one side so you are only doing knit most of the time. A bit of purl in the cuff & a bit of purl when you turn the heel but that is all, so it is something you don't need to think about a great deal. This pair is much improved on my first pair as far as working with DPNs goes too. My joins are much better right from the start so I am quite pleased. I think the next pair of socks I do will be using the Kaffe Fassett wool I bought recently. I think they are going to be really interesting!

Happy Weekend,

Mandy

It's neat and it's sweet
It's a ding dong treat
Knittin' socks for little feet
Just sittin' with your knittin' all day long
You know knittin's friendly
And knittin's fun
Knittin's good for everyone

From the TV Show Fraggle Rock

Owl are you?

How do you like my little owl? & I mean little. He is about 60mm high. But very cute & he was quick to make too! Best thing about him though is that he was made using fabric I got at the op shops for a song! I was rapt with my purchases of my very great fabric finds. If you like Owl you can make your own following the tutorial here... Owls

I have also been playing around with some other felt animals but can't post those yet cos the day is just horrid & it really is to dull to get a decent picture. Owl is obviously quite photogenic as he showed up well. lol

Ok, stay dry!

There was an owl

who lived in an oak.

The more he heard,

the less he spoke;

the less he spoke,

the more he heard-

We all should be

like that wise old bird.

Child's song

Father

Help Your children

And don't let them fall

By the side of the road, mmm...mmm...

Jesus is Love -The Commodores

Get that Paparazzi out of my face!

"People are demanding pictures of me all the time! Darned Paparazzi.

Ok, just the one then. But I'm not very happy about it! "

This is Brandon's new scarf. I have been doing it in between lots of other things as it was an easy one to pick up & put down when I needed something that I didn't need to think about.
I've been pottering about with a few other things but haven't finished much lately at all. Very slack, or busy! One or the other. Well that's it for now. Not much I can say about a scarf really!

Mandy

When I take a picture of the city it disappears
It’s only a photograph the city is gone
The places I go are never there
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
I can only picture the disappearing world when you touch me
Taking Pictures - Sam Phillips

Kitty Litter

I've been busy sewing cats this week! The top 3 were my first ones. The middle cat is the one we are keeping. I liked the fabric on the belly - one of my Amy Butler scraps from my swing bag. The denim I made those out of I got from the op shop for $1.50. Not too bad huh? I bet I won't be that lucky again. The other cat by itself is made of corduroy. That one is a baby present & already gone to it's new home for a baby shower this afternoon. Not bad considering I only made it yesterday! I didn't stuff that nearly as much as the others as it is really soft & squishy for a baby to play with now. I really like the colour of him as well so I think I will have to make something in that cord for us.

The cat pattern was out of the book Meet Me at Mike's. I bought it this week! Yay! So the library got theirs back & now I can keep making things out of it when I want to.
It's a nice book & one I really, really, really had to have all for myself.

Ok, that's all for now,

But the cat came back the very next day,

The cat came back, we thought he was a goner

But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.

Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The Cat Came Back - Harry S Miller

Monster!

How do you like my monster? Well actually it is Brandon's monster of course! He is from a new magazine called Australian Home Sewn, available now at newsagents. It's a great magazine really with some fun things in it that anyone could do. If you want to see more about it go to the blog list of blogs I follow & check out the one called Day to Day. That is Melissa's blog & she is the editor of the mag & she did a lot of the projects. Monster was really easy though. I put him together on Wednesday afternoon. He is made of some groovy colour changing fabric that I had so he looks pretty bright. It was quite nice today so he was playing in the garden. I think I will call him Boris as the song below is by Boris! Oh & he has more "Oma Buttons".

It was freezing this morning however. We were out early though making a trip to the airport to take Dad & Lyn. Then we went to Jungle Gym again with our mother's group friends. One of our friends is 1 today so they were going to play there so a few others of us did too. It was nice though, watching the kids. We had only been there one other time with Brandon & he wasn't walking then so it was quite different now that he could wander all over the place.

I have been busy with some knitting yesterday & today some more sewing again so stay tuned tomorrow for some more MSPCA animals of mine. I'm having fun!

Mandy

He did the mash

He did the monster mash

The monster mash

It was a graveyard smash

He did the mash

It caught on in a flash

He did the mash

He did the monster mash

Bobby "Boris" Picket