knitting with carrots
ah, see even my salt and pepper bunnies - named salt & pepper... - are perhaps not so foolishly fooled by the seemingly carroty hue coloured yarn from my latest knitted project for my next book - carrots, taste; smell and colour were in my head with every stitch i knitted (perhaps i should knit a carrot?) - i'm now onto to a pinkish yarn called sherbet (both from jamiesons of shetland) now which reminds me of raspberry sorbet - sweet thoughts while i knit i think!
Sorry!
Happy New Year!
boo! - a new baby for a new year (patterns will soon be available on Etsy, something else new for me!)
& a big hi to you, i hope you all had a great holiday? It's so good to link up with you again and can i say a huge thank you to everyone who supported my blog and website last year and thank you for your comments - i never used to leave comments on other folks' blogs but now i do as i know how important they are - comments keep blogs alive and i love to read them, they join us together as friends... may i tell you some of my exciting plans? - i will have a free knitting pattern or two each month - these will be my 'gifts to make of the month' the first being a january tea-cosy - i plan to give mine way to family members as birthday presents - also new dot pebbles outfits to make, 'winter white' will be the next one (a vain attempt to tempt the snow back!) i also have in mind a few knitted sculptures to run by you as knitted art works, you may remember me mentioning my love of julie arkell's work and my wish that i too could turn my work into pieces of art - well my first i'm working on right now - is called boxed hare - i'll post it up when it's done, i really would value your opinion... and lastly, but by no means least, back to the start - a baby doll collection complete with clothes - plenty to be getting on with including a new book out in september! please keep visiting, i love your company. x
& a big hi to you, i hope you all had a great holiday? It's so good to link up with you again and can i say a huge thank you to everyone who supported my blog and website last year and thank you for your comments - i never used to leave comments on other folks' blogs but now i do as i know how important they are - comments keep blogs alive and i love to read them, they join us together as friends... may i tell you some of my exciting plans? - i will have a free knitting pattern or two each month - these will be my 'gifts to make of the month' the first being a january tea-cosy - i plan to give mine way to family members as birthday presents - also new dot pebbles outfits to make, 'winter white' will be the next one (a vain attempt to tempt the snow back!) i also have in mind a few knitted sculptures to run by you as knitted art works, you may remember me mentioning my love of julie arkell's work and my wish that i too could turn my work into pieces of art - well my first i'm working on right now - is called boxed hare - i'll post it up when it's done, i really would value your opinion... and lastly, but by no means least, back to the start - a baby doll collection complete with clothes - plenty to be getting on with including a new book out in september! please keep visiting, i love your company. x
Day twenty-one!
oh christmas tree, how lovely are your branches...
Easy last-minute-makes Christmas tree…
From felt or fabric cut circles as follows: (I simply drew the circles using varying sizes of cotton reels and coins)
1 x 4cm/ 1½in diameter
1 x 2½cm/ 1in diameter
1 x 2cm/ ¾in diameter
1 x 1½cm/ ½in diameter
Radiating around each circle make cuts about 6mm/ 1/4in apart and in length for the larger circle diminishing the distance and the length as the circles get smaller.
Secure a length of sewing thread into a button – the base of the tree. Before you carry on it’s important to make sure the thread is bang in the centre of the button. Sew the thread through the centre of the largest felt/ fabric circle. Next attach a bead and then sew through the centre of the next sized circle. Then another bead and another circle until you end with the smallest circle. Cut a star from felt and pass the needle and thread through the centre. Tie a knot above the star to stop it from sliding up the thread then knot the thread to form a hanging loop. Decorate the tree if or as you wish!
They’d make quite cute earrings actually!
Day eighteen!
little donkey, carry Mary safely on her way...
Donkey
You will only need:
Set of 2mm (US size 0) double pointed needles
Tiny amounts 4-ply (fingering) weight or sock yarn (in two shades if you want a different colour muzzle)
Yarn needle, for weaving in ends
Pattern
Beg at the muzzle and with muzzle colour yarn (if opting for a different colour muzzle) cast on 7 sts.
Divide sts over three dpns. K 1 rnd.
Rnd 2 Kfb, k to last st, kfb. (9 sts)
Change colour here, if necessary, for head.
Rep last rnd once more. (11 sts)
Rnd 3 K11.
Rep last rnd twice more.
Shape sides of head
Rnd 6 [Kfb] twice, k7 [kfb] twice. (15 sts)
Rnd 7 K15.
Rep last rnd twice more.
Shape neck
Rnd 10 Kfb, k5, k3 tog, k5, kfb. You may need to rearrange the sts more evenly at this point.
Rnd 11 K15.
Rep last 2 rnds once more.
Shape body
Rnd 16 [Kfb] 3 times, k9, [kfb] 3 times. (21 sts)
Rnd 17 K21.
Rep last rnd 14 times more.
Shape back
Rnd 28 [K2 tog] 10 times, k1. (11 sts)
Rnd 29 K11.
Stuff your donkey with toy filling or spare yarn.
Tail
Cut the yarn, leaving a tail end of approx. 51cm/ 20in, thread end through yarn needle, thread needle through first 3 sts, leave next 5 sts onto a dpn, cont to thread rem 3 sts onto the yarn needle. Pull up tight to close hole, use the thread to work the tail as i cord until the yarn runs almost to the end, thread end through the rem sts, pull up and secure the end.
Legs
Fore legs make 2 alike. Cast on 5 sts, *work an i cord until the cord measures 2½cm/ 1in. Cut yarn, thread end through yarn needle, thread needle through 6 sts, pull up tight to close hole. Secure end. Weave in the end at the hoof end.**
Back legs make 2 alike. Cast on 6 sts, work as Fore Legs from * to **.
Sew legs to the sides of the body.
Ears make 2 alike
Cast on 5 sts, work as i cord as follows;
K5.
Rep last rnd twice.
K2 tog, k1, k2 tog.
K3.
Rep last rnd once.
Cut yarn, thread end through yarn needle, thread needle through 3 sts, pull up and secure end.
Sew onto the side of the head at the cast on end of ear.
Sew on eyes, a mane with sewing thread – on the white donkey I also sewed a band around the muzzle, in cotton thread to give shape to the muzzle.
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