Fun Stuff

Knitted Ratty hanging around outside the art gallery.

Love guerrilla art! 

Happy

Makes me smile.

Happy Friday.

Jam

JaM - taking Just a Moment to gather & share the things you have noticed, consumed, created &/or bought during your week....

It's been all about wool this week, warm and colourful.

Crocheting round and round while cycling through France.

Remembering how to knit and with some help from Christina I have almost finished 2 ear warmers.

Jamming with Jody. 

JaM

JaM - taking Just a Moment to gather & share the things you have noticed, consumed, created, bought during your week....

Fabulous yarn bombing,   

on both sides of this little street.

The food was really good too!

Joining Jody and JaM.

yellow

Some knitted yellow strips for the knitted convenience project.

What the wool did

Well the scarf turned out to be a neck band with a crocheted flower,

lovely to wear as the wool is so soft and snugly.

The granny square is just growing but nothing like the delicious knitting Christina has just completed. I'm having fun reliving some childhood memories each evening - could be an age thing!

Wool

I haven't knitted or crocheted for years and I'm enjoying playing with the wool.

What will it be, probably a scarf and a large granny square.

It never ceases to amaze me what is in our heads, as soon as I picked up the wool and the knitting needles it all came back to me. My mum taught me to knit before I started school. At night we would sit in front of the old wood stove, the door open with our feet propped up on it. I remember knitting squares, "pot holders" mum said.

I knitted lots of jumpers during the 80's, even a Jenny Kee design! Pay day would see me rushing into the wool shop, a whole shop just dedicated to knitting.

In primary school I learnt to crochet granny squares. We would all sit around in groups crocheting and swapping wool, during recess and lunch, it was one way to keep warm in winter! Each morning we would compare our squares and see how much we had done the night before, too bad about the home work.

I am spending my evenings surrounded by wool and a grumpy Miss Lilly as she fights for a spot on my lap and tries to avoid being poked with a knitting needle!

Hope you are having cosy evenings,

Melissa