A Productive Few Months

Over the past few months I have been finishing off projects and beginning new ones. Once again the Brisbane Stitches and Craft show is looming and I am thinking about knitting up samples and making up kits. 

I love the Cascade 220 Superwash Merino Sport yarn. It is especially great for kids because you can just throw it in the washing machine. The colours are wonderful and so with that in mind I am going to knit a baby blanket and offer it as a kit. These are just a few of the colours that I have in mind.

 I also wanted to see how far one skein of the gorgeous Knit Collage Rolling Stone would go. I have crocheted with it before to make a hat and it took 2 skeins but it is just gorgeous yarn and I know that some people could not afford to indulge in 2 skeins. Ta da! A one skein Drop Stitch cowl. I just need to write up the pattern and it will be free with the yarn.

 At last over the holidays I completed the Jane Crow 2012 Mystery Blanket. I decided to make it into a table runner as I have so many blankets. I am truly thrilled with the result and I finished it in 2012! The box of yarn from Rowan for the 2013 blanket arrives any day now so I am excited. The influence for 2013 is Persian.

In November we had another fabulous Freeform weekend with Prudence Mapstone. We had 10 ladies in class each day and we were stretched to the maximum. They all had a great time though and two are returning with friends for March. Some serious creative scrumbling went on!

These are two samples that I knitted for the October Craft Fair last year. The one below is the Meredith dress made from 2 skeins of Cascade Ultra Pima cotton. Above is the Ishbel made from less than one skein of Zauberball.

It wasn't all about me and the shop though. I managed to squeeze in a cable knit for my eldest son. He was freezing down in Sydney in August and begged me to knit him a nice warm jumper. I have asked for years if he wanted a jumper and it just wasn't cool. Finally he realises that homemade and made with love is better!