Magic yarn ball swap.

I took part in Theresas magic yarn ball swap in which we wound little bits and bobs into a ball of yarn and then as you knit you come across them!

Sam was my partner and she sent me a ball of Sublime Organic wool in a lovely green.



I resisted the urge to instantly unwind the ball to find the treasures! I knitted these wrist warmers which were based on this Cafe au Lait mitts pattern.



The treasures inside are lovely, buttons, Chocolate, coffee, fabric and a gorgeous bird pendant.



Thank you Sam, they are just perfect!

Tunic, mojo, odd balls and old ways.

I have finished something! It took me so long to make but a friend wanted a plain tunic for her baby so I made one. She lent me one of the childs tops to measure it against which made sizing easier.

It took just over 2 balls of Rowan DK pure wool. I was left with a couple more balls so made another one for my shop.

I think that it would look nice in a tweedy yarn too.



At the moment though I am totally uninspired by my knitting, I think my knitting mojo has gone.
I have ideas for my shop in my head but can't be bothered to get started with them. I have a lovely cabled sweater on the go but feel daunted by it and I have a few odd balls of yarn that I don't want to get rid off but haven't a clue what to make with them.



So I have decided to set myself the odd ball challenge!

I am going to knit all the odd balls in my stash up and have started with some felted tweed fingerless gloves. (Holding 2 strands together for the DK as seen above)

But I do have some really small yardage balls (as seen above, aran felted tweed, 1 ball in pink) and not a clue what to do with them. Any good book suggestions would be gratefully recieved or ideas that I could work out a pattern for.

Oh, and I went back to my old ways the other day. I threw a whole knit away in disgust. I haven't done that for a long time but it took me so long to make and turned out rubbish and the yarn wasn't worth frogging. I think that it is because I didn't blog it, blogging helps keep me on track!

Handspun reds.

I know, it took me so long to spin this. I still have 2/3rds more of the fibre to spin as well!

130 metres of Gorgeous Wildcraft superwash Bluefaced Leicester, navajo plied and spun semi-worsted on my Ashford Traveller.



I haven't spun for ages so will get back to it as it is so relaxing, almost meditative ... especially after a week of school being shut, husband working from home and not getting anything I should be doing done!



The street still looks like this although it is slowly starting to thaw a little.

Secret knitting.

The trouble with secret knitting is that it is totally unblogable if the person it is for reads the blog!

Thats a bit boring for blogging too.

Here is a snippet.



And here are the cookies we made yesterday. Yum!



As well as baking cookies I am trying to learn a bit more about photography by participating in Project 365 this year. The idea is to post a picture a day for 365 days. My photos are here so hopefully I will get to see an improvement!

I am a bit behind with my blog reading, spinning and Lillian knitting too so maybe this is catch up week!