Coming to the end of my first year ‘back in the loop’, so to speak, my Christmas projects are nearly complete and ready for wrapping. It’s a great feeling, having produced gifts that are appropriate, useful, fun! And they’ve kept my hands busy during the past few months, reducing my nibble intake – chocolate and cotton don’t mix… These cloths have proved a diversion, a way to relax while still doing something, and a great excuse for searching the net for…
The day in question being my mum’s birthday. She’d watched me produce cloth after cloth, and so a gift for her birthday had to be a personalised bundle of her own – one traditional style (plain white with coloured edging), a handbag pattern (my mum loves bags) and a cookie jar (she makes a mean bread pudding). Given with the hilarious novel ‘What Would Mary Berry Do?’ (by Claire Sandy), they made the perfect present.
The French drink coffee and the English drink tea – we all know that – and some French friends of ours (neither of whom drink coffee ) love our obsession with tea, so what to give them as a gift was a no-brainer…
So knitting is a granny sport, is it? On jury service recently I took in my ongoing project – flowers for a Mothers’ Day card – to make use of the time between sessions , and felt pretty daft when my scissors were confiscated after they showed up on the security X-ray. Doh. But who needs scissors? I knitted on with my (bone) 5.5mm knitting sticks and foolishly queried at lunchtime why my needles were OK if my scissors weren’t? …
What do you give the man who has everything? Top of his birthday list is always ‘lemon meringue pie’ and, along with several other of his female friends, I’ve usually obliged. Over the years, irregular get togethers meant inventive application, and Royal Mail has served us well with an LMP DIY kit, a box of meringues, a lemon (in a jiffy bag, of course), and a ransom note. But with my renewed ‘zest’ for knitting, I hope I ‘pipped’ the…
We all know someone who deserves the title and what better way to show them what you think of them than with a dish cloth or face cloth. This pattern, free thanks to Amy-Lynne of www.frogiezplace.blogspot.co.uk was my first shot at hero worship and was a satisfying and worthwhile project, judging by the response of my own particular superman. Using Debbie Bliss 100% cotton dk, this was a pleasure to work with and still looked fresh and new even after…
My chicken and egg (or is that egg and chicken?) project is taking shape nicely. Hens are more my thing than chicks, so my Easter project will be ‘eggs-eptional’. Who could resist a box of these best-dressed crème eggs?
My February project was a toad dishcloth for my lovely old school friend’s birthday. Why? Ode to the Toad Thanks to Shellie Wilson http://craftbits.com/project/dish-cloth-frog/