2012 #23rd & #24 Table Runners

still more pinks....

Last of the pinks of this shape. It's nice to see that I can be used up.

 

 

Premmie Beanies and scarves

With some left over Rico baby wool, I made these beanies and sent them up to the premmie ward that Alexander spent some time in after he was born.
Pattern from Carissa Browning, Premmie Hats for Charity.

With some left over yarn in the stash I made 8 scarves for our charity run at out Spinners and weavers group.  These scarves went to the Prahan Mission.

No pattern, just cast on and knit each row until wool runs out.

Baby Jackets

Using up left over handspun yarn, I made a few baby jackets.

Pattern is Baby Yoda Sweater, by Cari Luna

It is such a great pattern to follow, and something small that can fit into your handbag, and knit while waiting to pick up kids from sports and school

2012 #21 & #22 Table Runners

There seem to be a lot of pinks left over from quilts.

2012 #19 & #20 Table Runners

Still working on these shapes that were cut out for quilts a few years ago.

Now for the yellows.

Mobile Mittens

Alexander asked me to knit him a pair of mittens for riding to school.  It is getting cold here.

Pattern is called Mobile Mittens by Maria Moesby
Yarn, Naturally Vero

Reversible Scrap Quilt blocks

Spending a bit of time after working through the box of 2"strips, to tackle the "less than 2" strip box. (I know, it's crazy). 
Using leftover 10" x 10" squares of wadding, I am sewing all the strips to the wadding.  Eventually I will make some quilts out of them.  It surprises me how many blocks you can make with the leftover strips that I couldn't bear to throw in the bin because they were small, but not that small. 

(On a side note, anything less than 1" gets thrown away)

That's all the less that 2" strips for now.  One day these will get sewn into a quilt.

2012 #17 & #18 Table Runner

oh no, look what I found, more of the shapes I cut out a few years ago. 

Not enough to make a quilt (maybe), so I decided to use these for more table runners.

First the reds.

Now for an orange table runner

 

Handwarmers

A few pairs of handwarmers for the Fingers and Gloves exhibition at the Guild.

No pattern used, just cast on 40 stitches, K2,P2 until I ran out of wool.  Fergus was very helpful modelling these

Toddler dresses

Pattern by Lion Brand Yarn, called Sweet Sweater Dress

using handspun wool.

198yards of Heaven

Handspun fibre from Alaska, "A tree huggers wife", I managed to knit this little shawl.  My first attempt at chain plying.

 

It's really warm around your neck, and so soft.

 

Pattern is called 198 yards of Heaven by Christy Verity

 

2012 #15 & #16 Table Runner

  This last green table runner is the end of the 2"strip box.  There are only a few strips left that I can't do anything with at the moment. 



Fibre March - June.

Lots and lots of spinning done this first half of the semester.  I found that after a day at the computer doing Uni work, and lots of reading, I needed a few hours in the evenings to wind down.  (Also the stress of external things got to me and it really wasn't a good start to the school year).

Spinning was the one thing that calmed me each evening.  I was surprised at how much I accomplished!

I spent a windy warm day washing all the yarn, then hung them out to dry on the tree on the front garden, much to the amusement of our neighbours. They were dry by the afternoon.

Then I spent the evening making them into balls.

A very production semester for spinning, now to knit them all into something

2012 #13 & #14 Table Runners

Still more green 2" strips.

2012 #11 & #12 Table Runners

11th Table runner. Still using the 2" strips.

I wonder if I will ever see the bottom of this box of 2"strips.

There seems to be lots of green 2" strips in the collection. 

So I have sorted them all out and started a few of this pattern.

Justin's hat

Handspun black merino top, finally knitted into a slouch hat for Justin's 21st.

Justin's birthday was in October 2011, and finally I finished this in March 2012. Lucky he has forgiven me for being so late.

 

Pattern is called Graham by Jennifer Adams

I made it a bit longer

Kelly's Shawl

Kelly's birthday is in December.  Lucky that she loves me enough to know that I am usually late with her birthday present.  Last year has been no exception, so I haven't let me track record down.

 

The pattern is "Summer Flies" by Donna Griffin

Yarn is Misti Alpaca Lace Solid on 5mm needles.

 

The shawl is so soft and light and the main thing...Kelly loves it!

2012 #9 & #10 Table Runners

Pinks & purple strips into a herringbone pattern

Love reds.....

Gift Card Holder

I made a small gift voucher card holder from some scraps of fabric. The pattern comes from The Crafty Cupboard

It was fun to make

Indigo Dyeing

We had a lot of fun at our spinning group, while Jan explained Indigo Dyeing to us.  We all bought along some wool, fibre, cotton hankies and other things to dip into the dye pot.
See our day together on the Doncaster & Templestowe Spinners and Weavers Group

I took some of the fibre that I had spun at my Learn to Spin classes at the Guild.  It was interesting to see the different shades of blue that came out of the dye pot, depending how long you left it in the dye pot, and whether it was one of the first of last pieces to be dipped.

2012 #7 & #8 Table Runners

A blue nine patch...this box of 2" strips seems to be breeding when I am not looking, it still looks full!

A clean up of the study unearthed these left over shapes, that I cut out a few years ago for many colour graded quilts.  So I sewed them up together and had enough to make a table runner.

Handspun x 2 and plied

black merino from the spinners guild (it didn't photograph well) spun into a single

gorgeous fibre from "A Tree Hugger's Wife".  My mum bought this for me from her trip to Alaska.

After letting the single "rest" for a week, I chain plied it.  This is the first time I have done a lot full bobbin of chain ply..and it was great fun!

The black will be made into a hat, the Alaska yarn, I am not so sure yet....for the moment, I will just look at it and rub it against my cheeks.....it's so gorgeous!