tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73214948492314473732024-03-05T20:05:08.905-08:00My Name is PurlA blog about knittingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-6844788876459200562012-12-07T05:06:00.001-08:002012-12-07T05:06:21.524-08:00Fill In The Blank FridayHappy Friday everybody! Boy, am I glad to see the weekend. It's so cold here at the moment that it's a real struggle to motivate myself to get out and do stuff, so Beau and I have mostly just been snuggled up at home, getting in the Christmas spirit. At least James will be home over the weekend so we can all snuggle together, and hopefully I can get some knitting done at long last! I have three projects on the go at the moment and I really want to get them all finished by Christmas...fat chance of that happening!<br />
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<a href="http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lauren</a>, who usually does the Fill In The Blank Friday feature, has a poorly baby and hasn't been able to do the blanks this week, so, since I have a little time on my hands, I thought I would give it a go myself. Since I'm here in the UK, and Lauren is in the US, I thought I'd go with a Europe vs. US theme...here goes!<br />
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<b>1. My favourite place I have visited (or would like to visit) in the US is </b>New York City. <b>What I love most about it is </b>that electricity that only New York makes me feel. Like everything you do there is special, whether it's getting a cupcake from Magnolia bakery on Bleecker Street or ice skating under the big tree at The Rockefeller Centre. I just can't get enough of that city.<br />
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<b>2. My favourite place I have visited (or would like to visit) in Europe is </b>The Greek Islands. <b>What I love most about it is</b> the quaint charm of these beautiful islands, and the crystal clear waters which look more like the Caribbean than Europe. I have actually never visited, despite the fact that they're only a 4 hour flight from home, but it's been on my "to do" list for a number of years. Just look at this beautiful beach on the island of Paxos<br />
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<b>3. My favourite movie (location wise) set in the US is </b>The Twilight Saga (and I stress this is for the location only!!) <b>because </b>I think that the pacific north west just looks breathtakingly beautiful and I would love to visit there someday. Seattle has always appealed to me since watching Frasier when I was a kid, and since reading Lauren's blog (The little things we do) I am also desperate to visit Portland. It sounds like such a cool, cultured city.<br />
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<b>4. </b><b>My favourite movie (location wise) set in Europe is </b>Only You, starring Robert Downey Junior, Marisa Tomei and Bonnie Hunt. <b>Because </b>it is set in Italy, specifically Rome, Venice and Positano. All three are cities which I would just love to visit. In the movie, they drive from Venice to Rome, through the Italian countryside, and you can't help but fall in love with the romantic, rustic beauty of the place.<br />
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<b>5. My favourite band/musician from the US is currently </b>Darwin Deez. They're from New York City and yet I don't think they're nearly as well know over there as they are here. They are a total hipster band, but I think they're pretty cool. I've seen them live four times so far, and I've just booked tickets to two more shows when they tour here again next February! You might say I'm turning into a bit of a groupie!<br />
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<b>6. My favourite band/musician from Europe is currently </b>Amy Winehouse. I think she produced some of the most beautiful music of our time in her short life, and I was so saddened when she died. If you haven't heard her Lioness album which was released after her death, then you should Go and download it right now, it's wonderful.<br />
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<b>7. I love where I live in </b>Kent, UK <b>because</b> we are an hour's car/train journey from London, or the coast, and being a lover of both the city, the beach and the countryside, this is perfect for me. London is my second favourite place on earth (after NYC) and I can hop on a train there, enjoy the sights and sounds of it for a while then I can be back in the beautiful countryside of Kent in under and hour. If you haven't been here before, I thoroughly recommend a visit, I love where I live!<br />
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I hope you liked my blanks, and please join in over at <a href="http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Little Things We Do</a> each Friday for the original and the best version from Lauren!<br />
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Well, we've moved house and we have no Internet for another three weeks, booo! Which means its pretty hard for me to blog and show you what I've been up to :o(<br />
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I'm doing this from the mobile app, so apologies for the poor format and misplaced photos. I couldn't not do a post though because I have been knitting some seriously cute things! An old school buddy is going to be a Daddy around Christmas time and he happens to make the coolest sun glasses ever (coming soon to www.bam-boostore.com) so we're doing a little trade off; I knit some cool stuff for baby Emilia and in return I get a pair of his rad shades. Sounds little a pretty toot sweet deal to me! <br />
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So to start with I wanted to make a little hat for her. I scoured through all my patterns but I just couldn't find the right one, so I made it up as I went along! To get the right size, I google searched the average circumference of a newborn baby's head (14 inches apparently) and did my gauge swatch so I knew how many stitches to cast on (I used size 3 and a quarter mm needles and cast on 91 stitches). I used Debbie Bliss cashmerino DK in apricot for the main body of the hat. I did a K1P1 rib for 6 rows, then switched to 4mm needles for the rest. <br />
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I wanted to personalise the hat and decided to do a little E on it, in a contrasting colour using fair isle. For this I used Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK in cream. I usually work out my fair isle patterns on my computer using a good old excel spreadsheet, but I happened to be at my sisters house when the idea struck me, so I took to good old pen and paper (and a few yellow stickers to act as corrector pen, that's improvisation for you) to lay out the design. I wanted to do the curly swirly kind of E so that it wasn't too harsh, and I came up with this little pattern. It actually didn't translate very well to the final product, partly because it was only a single line (row, stitch, whatever you want to call it) and partly because I'm still not great at fair isle and the contrasting stitches were not very even or uniform in size. <br />
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Anyhoo, I finished the hat and wasn't quite happy with it, so I decided that a little bow fixes everything. I knitted up a little seed stitch bow and sewed it onto the bottom of that hat and it instantly looked better. The E still really doesn't look like an E (I've been asked if its a smiley face three times) but oh well, baby Emilia will never know :o) Hopefully Ashley and Ali will like it! <br />
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Next I'm making her some little socks out of the same apricot cashmerino. I got the pattern from the Debbie Bliss baby knits book, and they are frickin cute. I'll do a proper post when they're all done, but here's how I've done so far...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2. A big pet peeve of mine is</b> when people criticise the choices I make as a mother, or try and tell me how I should do things when it comes to Beau. My mum has made this mistake a few times and I'm always quick to tell her that I don't need to do everything her way, and if I'm wrong then that's my decision too. There are so many books out there which tell you how to raise your children, and I wish I could just burn them all. You should bring up your children the way you think is best, all the while you're doing them no harm. If I let Beau stay up until 8:30 because he isn't tired, instead of sending him to bed at 7:30 because that's "bed time" then so be it. Live and let live.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">3. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"> I am really loving</span></b><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">chevron print at the moment. I want to do all the soft furnishings in my house with it, but it's so hard to come by in the UK. The only place I can get it is from US sellers on Etsy, and by the time I've paid the shipping, it's just too expensive to justify. Hopefully the UK will catch on to the chevron trend soon and we'll be inundated with beautiful things here too</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. <b>The rain is </b>not bothering me too much. I kind of like being tucked up indoors in the dry and watching the rain outside. There's something very cosy and comforting about it.</span></span></div>
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Happy Friday one and all! This has been a pretty exciting week for me because we're moving house in a couple of weeks time so I've been buying pretty things for our new home, and making lists of all the pretty things I will buy when I can afford them. Check out my Pinterest board <a href="http://pinterest.com/smithers87/edward-street/">Edward Street</a> for a glimpse at my mood board of the way I would like our new home to look .</div>
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This week I've been working on a little anniversary gift for Dad to give to his wife Pat, for their 7 year anniversary, which is apparently the year of wool. He asked me to come up with a design which is personal to them and includes the date of their anniversary, and this is what I designed:<br />
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I used a really cheap, basic chunky wool from my local Hobby Craft. It was Highfields Chunky, in navy and cream, then some grey chunky which I had left over from another project. I used size 5.5mm needles, and really they were too small. I should have used 7mm but seeing as the cloth will probably get framed, it's kind of good that the fabric is nice and stiff. This is how is turned out in the end:<br />
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I am so glad it's Friday! I am going out for a few drinks with my girls tonight, to celebrate two of my friends getting fantastic new jobs this week! Charlotte has secured a new job in a GREAT hairdressing salon in Tunbridge Wells, and Toni has landed her dream job of community nurse, something she has wanted to do since we were at school. So we're hitting up Hotel Du Vin tonight for some sophisticated celebrations.<br />
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Tomorrow night will be totally different but I'm also really excited about it. I'm going to be babysitting which isn't unusual for me of a weekend, but the parents aren't going to be home until after 2:30<b>am</b> (!!) which gives me around 7 hours of uninterrupted knitting time!! My Dad has asked me to make him and Pat a little piece to symbolise their seven year wedding anniversary, which apparently is the year of wool. This is the design I've come up with and will be making for them tomorrow:<br />
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They darker grey border will just be a purl border around the stocking stitch, and will be the same colour as the background. If I get this finished and still have some time to spare, I need to design a couple of cushion covers for my brother's flat. He has asked me to make him a couple of cable knit cushions which is perfect because I LOVE CABLE KNIT!<br />
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I decided just after Christmas 2011 that I wanted to teach myself how to knit. I am an avid Pinterest pinner and I had seen so many cute knitted items on there and always though "oh, if only I could knit" then one day it hit me...teach myself! I had knitted when I was a little girl because my Nan was hands down THE BEST knitter in the entire world. She would sit at the table, watching Eastenders, knitting away, without so much as looking at what she was doing, and everything came out perfect and beautiful. To me it seemed that all she did was to click the needles together, because she did it so fast that that's all you could see! So she taught me how to knit at various times while I was growing up, but as with most things (apart from riding a bike, as we all know) I forgot how to do it because I didn't keep it up as a regular hobby.</div>
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When I decided the learn how to knit again, my first thought was naturally of my Nan, and how sad I was that she is no longer around to teach me. She passed away in 2001 from a lung condition and I miss her very very much. I knew I couldn't afford to take lessons, so I decided I would have to look to my friend and tutor of EVERYTHING, YouTube! With the help of some fantastic tutorial videos from people such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/k1p1TV">K1P1TV</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/theknitwitch?feature=CAQQwRs%3D">The Knit Witch</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/knittinghelp?feature=CBAQwRs%3D">Knitting Help</a> I learnt how to knit, at a very basic level. Once I had learnt the Knit and Purl stitches, I wanted to have a go at knitting an actual pattern. I had seen the diaper cover from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/ezcareknits?ref=af_circ_circle">ezcareknits</a> on Pinterest and so I had a look at her Etsy shop, and came across her cloth squares. They were the perfect first pattern for me, as they looked simple but fun and creative. I went ahead and bought some of her patterns, and went about knitting up the little squares. I had a few random balls of yarn lying around so I just did the squares in those various colours, and was thrilled with the results! </div>
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Once I had knitted my first six squares, my Mum said to me "Kate they're fantastic, but what are you going to do with them?" I hadn't thought that far. I was just knitting to get used to following a pattern, but I thought they were pretty cool, so I wanted to make good use of them in some way...</div>
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One thought was to get them framed individually and have them up in Beau's room as some wall art. Then Mum suggested that I should make some more, and sew them all together into a blanket, what a great idea! I love blankets, and what could be better than hand knitting one for my first born baby? So it was decided, and I set about knitting more and more squares.</div>
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I had long been obsessed with anything fair isle, and decided that I wanted to learn how to do that myself too. This time, my Mum taught me. We sat at her house one evening, with a simple little heart pattern I had drawn up, and Mum recounted the story of how she had once knitted a fair isle jumper for my Dad (under the watchful eye of my Nan, who taught Mum how to knit too) and she won first prize for it at the Rusthall Village Fete in the late 70's/early 80's. To my surprise, fair isle knitting came pretty easily to me, and it wasn't long before I decided that I wanted to incorporate some into Beau's blanket. I would use the ezcareknits patterns as a template for size, so that they all coordinated on the blanket, and I used excel to create my patterns. This was the first one I did:</div>
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Then I made one with his name on it:</div>
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I also adore cable knit, and once again I was determined to learn how to do it so I could put some into the blanket. Trusty old YouTube served me well, and after a couple of botched attempts, I got the hang of it and designed a little square to fit in with the others I had already knitted. This was halfway through the first one I completed, and I have to say I was pretty thrilled with how it turned out!</div>
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Eventually, 6 months after I had started the project I got to a point where I had knitted enough squares to make a decent sized blanket, and in the process I had taught myself a number of invaluable techniques and found a new hobby which I absolutely loved!! Next on the curriculum was learning how to sew it all together...</div>
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I spent HOURS agonising over the layout. I knew how the fair isle row would look but with the rest of it, I knew I didn't want any of the same two colours or designs next to one another and it was a lot harder than I had imagined to find a layout which fitted all my self-imposed rules. Becs (my sister, who has a keen eye for detail and design) helped me shuffle the pieces around and around like one of those frustrating jigsaw puzzles where the squares slide up, down, left and right until the picture is complete, until eventually we got it right, and I pegged all the rows together and numbered each stack so that they didn't get out of their perfected order. </div>
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I used a couple of different YouTube tutorials to learn how to sew seams, and once I started, it actually progressed really quickly. Once it was finished, I wrapped it up and gave it to Beau as a birthday present on his first birthday :o)</div>
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During the process, Becs asked me to make one for Ivy and my friend Jemma asked me to make one for her daughter, so I'm now working on Ivy's and will do a post once it's all done!</div>
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If you would like any of the fair isle patterns or the cable knit pattern please ask in the comments section and I would be happy to share them with you. The patterns for the other squares are all available from ezcareknits Etsy shop.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-19134674991407978732012-09-28T08:41:00.000-07:002012-09-28T08:41:54.157-07:00Fill In The Blanks FridayIt's Friday again already, and I haven't blogged all week!! But in my defence, I haven't really had a chance to get any knitting done so there wouldn't be much to blog about. I have started on a blanket for Ivy but I haven't even blogged about the one I knitted Beau yet so I can't be telling you about Ivy's one! This is a sneak peak of the one I did for Beau though...<br />
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I can't wait to blog about the blanket properly but it really deserves a good chunk of my time and I need to edit the photos to go with it, so it will have to wait a little longer.<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. </b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">My first memory is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">from when I lived in Australia when I was two years old. I remember sitting on my parents' bedroom floor watching "Neighbours". I have other memories from Australia, including the time my older brother Nick fell off the curb outside our house and split his head open, and how Nick and Becs would go over to the little lake opposite our house and get leaches stuck to their legs. The random things I remember eh!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2. My first love was</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">my first boyfriend I suppose. To think of him that way is weird, because it ended pretty badly, but I did love him in the beginning. I can't deny him that. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3. My very first favourite colour was</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">pink, I think. I only say that because when I was about 5, we moved house and my Dad said I could choose what colours he painted my room. I chose baby pink for the walls, and this weird, light forest green for the woodwork...what was I thinking? </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>4. </b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first time I really felt like a "grown-up" was when</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked over from my hospital bed at this beautiful little baby staring up at me from his perspex cot, and I realised that he was solely dependent on me, and I was over the moon about it. I finally understood so much more about things my mum and Dad had said to me over the years, and how the love you have for your children is enough to break your heart.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>6. </b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first CD (cassette tape, record, etc...) I ever bought was</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Haha cringe! It was the Mysterious Girl single by Peter Andre. Did I really just admit to that?</span></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>7. My first car was</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">a Fiat Cinquecento Sporting 1.1, in black! My first boyfriend was a Fiat enthusiast and he had talked me into it being an ideal first car for me. It did me OK to be honest, but it was like a biscuit tin on wheels. I used to feel sure that if I had a crash with a cyclist, the cyclist would come off better.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-30611324375980664762012-09-21T03:00:00.001-07:002012-09-21T05:21:30.821-07:00Fill In The Blanks Friday!Hey knitters,<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. </b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something I am very proud of is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">having lost 1 stone, 2 and a half pounds recently. I put on around 3 stone when I was pregnant, 2 and a half of which came off pretty easily with breast feeding, but I just couldn't shift the rest. So I started running 3 times and week and I joined <a href="http://slimmingworld.com/">Slimming World</a> and it was hands down the best decision I ever made. I wasn't exactly happy with my weight before I got pregnant so I decided to get to my goal weight, instead of just losing the other half a stone (7lbs) to get me back to my pre-pregnancy weight. I have another 11lbs to get me to my goal weight, but I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far :o)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2. My favourite thing about myself is</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the hardest question ever. I'm in a pretty weird place at the moment and I'm really struggling to think of the answer to this question, so I'm going to have to skip it and hopefully come back to it at a later date.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3. My favourite colour for fall/autumn is</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Navy Blue. It's also my favourite colour for winter, spring and summer :o) Though I'm also loving myself a bit of mustard yellow right now too.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>5. A book I am reading now/have read recently is</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Help, by Katherine Stockett. I saw the film first and loved it, the book is ten times better. I recommend it highly.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>6. </b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">My favourite Pandora Station is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a Brit, I have no idea what Pandora is so I'm guessing it's an American thing?? Over here, Pandora is a jewellery company.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>7. This weekend I will</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>be having a father/daughter/grandson lunch with my dad tomorrow which I'm really looking forward to. It's so rare that my dad is allowed out without his wife, so it will be so good to have a proper catch up. Then we're going to view a house that we might rent, woo hoo!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can join in yourself at <a href="http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.co.uk/">Lauren's blog, The Little Things We Do</a></span></span><br />
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So we chose a plain green yarn and then a contrasting green and white yarn in the same shade. In my usual fashion, I have discarded the paper wrap from the yarn so I'm unable to tell you what I used, but I promise that any future patterns I knit, I will keep this info so I can include it here for anyone who might be interested. I also knitted the matchng hat, which was MUCH MORE FUN!! Here is how they turned out<br />
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I kind of abandoned the pattern for the cocoon if I'm totaly honest and did my own thing with the stripes, and I also made it quite a lot larger (diameter wise) than the pattern states because as a mum myself, I know that squeezing a wriggly (or perhaps even sleeping) newborn into a fairly tight cocoon would be a nightmare, so I made it larger so that they could easily get the bubba inside, then they could just fold the excess underneath so it doesn't show in photos (I have folded the excess under in the photo above and it really doesn't notice at all). The hat was fun the make, and also I had to teach myself how to crochet to make the chain for the eyes. I used <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtmOEzm_OXQ">this YouTube tutorial </a>to learn, and it was super easy. So what do you think?<br />
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xAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-33455258385023349882012-09-07T09:28:00.000-07:002012-09-07T09:31:48.706-07:00The Nappy Covers (and matching hats)One of the most recent projects I finished, and my first paid project, was a collection of photo props for a local photographer (<a href="http://www.paulbarsby.co.uk/">Paul Barsby, Tunbridge Wells</a>). I'll do a post for each of the items, my favourite of which were these adorable little nappy covers.<br />
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For the white one, I purchased the pattern from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/ezcareknits?ref=af_circ_circle">ezcareknits on etsy</a> but I accidentally bought the wrong size. I bought size 0-3 months, when I actually needed newborn. I could have just purchased the newborn size from etsy but in order to save money, I adapted the pattern myself, to make it a little smaller. Because the white pattern includes the little duck motif (worked using garter stitch on a stocking stitch background), I didn't want to have to shrink this down so I left it out altogether and just made the smaller ones plain. I bought the buttons from my local Hobbycraft store and for the wool I just used a standard double knit. The pink one was super soft, but the white and navy were quite itchy and woolly. If you were going to make these for your baby to wear day to day then I would obviously recommend using a luxury soft yarn, such as Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK, but as they were just photo props and the babies will only be wearing them for a few minutes, it doesn't really matter.<br />
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The photographer also wanted matching long-tailed pixie style hats. I couldn't find a suitable pattern for these so I made one up. I was pretty happy with how they turned out, though for a small newborn they were a teeny bit big. Now this wouldn't have been a problem when my son Beau was born, because he weighted 9lb 7oz and had a huge head (which the midwife who stitched me up afterwards not so politely told me had done a huge amount of damage too, but that's a whole other story!) but for the tiny little 6lb girl who was the first baby to model one of these hats for the photographer, it did look a little baggy on her precious dainty head. A simple way to get around this if you know you need a smaller one would be to drop down a size in knitting needles. Anyway, here is the pattern for the hats<br />
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<i>Please feel free to use this pattern, but if you're going to share it, please have the courtesy to credit and link back to my blog (www.my-nameispurl.blogspot.co.uk)</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Straight knitting needles: Size 7 US (4.5mm) and
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CO -Cast On <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">K2tog -Knit together <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting -Cast on 70 with size 7 (4.5mm)</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Row 17: *K2Tog, K4* Repeat to end of row (50
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-62030539506853273322012-09-07T07:07:00.001-07:002012-09-07T08:37:44.116-07:00Zingy the EDF Flame (Or The Squoof)One of the first things I knitted (and completed, I must add) was this cute as hell little knitted mascot "Zingy" from the EDF adverts.<br />
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<span id="goog_379243856"></span><span id="goog_379243857"></span> Random, you might think?? And you would be right, apart from the fact that my niece Ivy really seriously looks like this thing!! She has the biggest eyes I've ever seen on a baby (to the point where we call her Eyes-Vy), she is super pale like her mum (my sister) and she sometimes gets that exact little curl of hair on top of her head. I can't find a photo to show off the curl but here she is looking super cute as always<br />
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As well as Eyes-Vy, her main nickname is The Squoof, because frankly she's just so darned squoofy. Despite not really meaning anything at all, it just sums her up in one (slightly bizarre) word. If you continue to check in with this blog (and I continue to update it of course) you will soon realise that in our house we are a bit bonkers. We all have various ridiculous nicknames, few of which make any sense. We have little songs which we all know but would never dare sing them to an outsider, we would all be sectioned! The house favourite is called "What do we do when we love somebody's face (we kiss their face)"</div>
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Soooo, anyway. Back to the knitting. I got the pattern for free on a forum, I can't find the original thread to link up to so I'll include the whole pattern at the end. As far as wool goes, I just went to my local C&H Fabrics and bought the cheapest wool I could find in the right colour, which is a light pastel peach colour. I don't have the paper band for it any more so can't even tell you what I got, but it doesn't really matter. As long as it's DK (double knitting) you could use just about anything you like. This was the first thing I knitted in the round and I have to say it went pretty well. I used <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtBSmxGomPk">this video on YouTube</a> to learn the magic loop method which you need for this project, unless you knit it on DPN's (Double Pointed Needles), which I don't really want to attempt just yet.</div>
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In all honesty, this pattern wasn't quite right, shape-wise. The actual EDF Zingy is more fat and squat, like this</div>
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But I didn't want to pay for a pattern and this is what I ended up with. It would be super easy to fix, by simply increasing more in the top and bottom sections, and decreasing less stitches at the "waist" section. Personally I didn't have another shot at it because it was only for a bit of fun. I have seen these sell on eBay for £10 or £15 and obviously if you were going to sell it, you would need to make it a bit more accurate.</div>
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Anyway, here is the pattern, happy knitting knitters x</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Knitted Zingy the EDF Flame<br />
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50g ball Wendy Peter Pan Double Knit Shade 3004<br />
1 X long circular needle or set dble pointed knitting needles, size 3.75mm<br />
Scrap white felt<br />
Scrap black felt<br />
Cast on 9sts leaving a ‘tail’ of yarn. Join into a round either using magic
loop method or dble pointed needles.<br />
R1 Inc in every st.(18sts)<br />
R2 Knit<br />
R3 Inc in every st (36sts)<br />
R4 to R21, Knit.<br />
R22 K2tog all along row (18sts)<br />
R23 Knit<br />
R24 Knit 1, K2tog, all along row. (12sts)<br />
R25 Knit<br />
R26 *K1, kfb; repeat from * (18sts)<br />
R27 Knit<br />
R28 *K2,kfb; repeat from * (24sts)<br />
R29 Knit<br />
R30 *K3,kfb; repeat from * (30sts)<br />
R31 Knit<br />
R32 *K4,kfb;repeat from * (36sts)<br />
R33 Knit<br />
R34 *K8 ,kfb;repeat from * (40sts)<br />
R35 – 38 Knit<br />
R39 *K8 ,k 2tog;repeat from * (36sts)<br />
R40 Knit<br />
R41 *K4, k 2tog;repeat from * (30sts)<br />
R42 Knit<br />
R43 *K3, k 2tog;repeat from * (24sts)<br />
R44 Knit<br />
R45 *K2, k 2tog;repeat from * (18sts)<br />
R46 Knit<br />
At this point stuff the base and head of flame .<br />
R47 *K1, k 2tog; repeat from * (12sts)<br />
R48 Knit<br />
R49 *K2tog; repeat from * (6sts)<br />
R50 Knit<br />
R51 Knit<br />
R52 K1,K2tog,K1,K2tog (4sts)<br />
R53 Knit<br />
R54 K2tog and fasten off. Thread this end in.<br />
Stuff the base a little more if needed, and then run cast on tail yarn through
cast on sts and pull up tight. Thread ends in.<br />
From white felt cut 2 X 7/8 inch circles, just touching.An easy way to do this
is to find a button the correct size and trace around it, making the circles
just touching.Then it can be cut out in one piece.<br />
From black felt cut 2 X 3/8 inch circles, and a ¼ inch oval.<br />
Centre black circles in white circles and stitch down with tiny sts. Sew this
to centre front of flame. Sew black oval to just under where circles touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sew the button onto the bottom, to help it stand up.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315713017325823058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321494849231447373.post-10296069646852396842012-09-07T05:09:00.001-07:002012-09-07T08:38:29.924-07:00A new blog for a new(ish) passionSo I haven't blogged over on <a href="http://lifeisbeau-tiful.blogspot.co.uk/">Life is Beau-tiful</a> for a wee while, and I've been itching to blog about my knitting for ages. I was going to just do a post there about it but I thought actually, this deserves a blog all of it's very own! So here it is, I have many many posts to write and photos to share so check back soon and you can see all the cool schnutz I've been creating. Oh yeah and what do you think of the blog title? Like it? Loathe it? Let me know, it may or may not get changed. <br />
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p.s. inbetween writing this, I've been trying to feed (my son) Beau and (my neice) Ivy their lunch and entertain them with crazy dancing round the kitchen to Elton John's Crocodile Rock; the multitasking life of a mum never ends!<br />
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