Crochet graffiti gets recycled into a skirt

Vivacious

The big mistake........not any more.

My dyslexic S a 2?

Any how its no longer a problem as on the round who knows what it spells and if you stair for that long to work it out, you would be pretty noisy.

http://knits-and-pearls.blogspot.com/2010/08/washing-line-crochet-and-precious.html

Pick up the stitches almost like knitting on the round only it's crochet.

A bottom warmer for sure, and I mist say needed........

What has happened to the UK a country that the thinnest jacket was required in

winter, it seems the season have shifted.........

I'm wearing my Swedish Jacket;-(

I thread the elastic through using a large darning needle, to help keep shape and hold up if the stitches should stretch and using the stitch that I have tried to demonstrate below cover up the elastic.

With this stitch.....

You are almost going back over what you have done before.

Party Dress gets a re-vamp


Potential party dress gets an overhaul

I made this last xmas and have just never been happy with the sleeves deciding that I could wear this as outrageous at it seems if I played down down the straps and put a black t shirt under (long sleeve of cousre) I figured it could be wearable.

Major problems

where as follows
1) I had no idea how I'd made the dress.
2) I could not just unpick (as the stitches where some how side ways)
3) had none of the original yarn to help fix.

Problem solved I cut off the sleeves (believe me I spent an hour trying to work it out! before I committed such a crime.

Below picked up stitches roughly with a life line.


Added an edge, as neatly as I could...... hiding the bitter mess of the insides, I'm showing a very selective picture as basically it was a major patch up.

Just add crochet

Hat hats hats........ Rasmus and Monet (who had literally just woken up) try to model my knit wear, Rasmus did his best to be human so he didn't miss out on the photo opportunity.

38 34 38 a little too burlesque?

Modelling my Edward top, even actually wearing a bra.

Not very model like but life like, trying to make it look like a real ladies a little bit of a chore.......this weekend job to give my mannequin a real figure.

Graffiti for skirts!

Vivacious has become a graffiti skirt,(prototype) this is the Dyslexic on and basically I decided that on a round who could tell what it actually said..........

So far so good, below £1.65 charity shop buy to complete this task huge acrylic




TOOOOOOOOOO MUCH ON

This mess applies to my life as well as my projects, I think that I actually need a time out.

Uni work OCA

I really must get on with some uni work this is going to be the longest ever chapter, I just can not come to terms with just how awful hand dying is if !!! if you just have no interest, I just want the end product and I totally respect the work that goes into the love of dying
I JUST DON'T LIKE IT!

Rhubarb and custard

Gets a waist band of huge proportion




Just how many projects should one have on the go at once, it occurred to me lately that I have not finished any thing in a while..........

And that the reason for this is I just keep moving on.....it's a little knit crazy.

Rich is very patient with the fact that a lot of the time there's no seats as I seem to spread out like ivy, I'm every where.

I need to get a grip, we need to fit a tree in here and I can't bring back out my knitted one, can I ?

It's just to much even by my standards (To much yarn,never?)

Simply threading the elastic through, with a darning needle.

Lamp Shade cover,

Clock cover,

Desk lamp cover,

Just add a little crochet.

These are a few on my favourite things...............

How to below

http://theknittingforartexhibition.blogspot.com/2010/11/funkying-it-up-with-crochet.html

An Eclectic mix of.....

An Eclectic mix of.....

Art,

Over sized Scarf,

Innocent age concern, coolness

York(mini break) in no particular order.........


Innocent smoothies for charity make the perfect hat for a Bratz that enjoys wearing retro knits. What a super cute idea and makes money for charity at the same time.

http://www.innocentdrinks.ie/thebigknit/



Knitting & Art

Blog search Knit daily, random Google and found this beautiful knitting portrait.

It's history..........

One of Greuze's great strengths was his depiction of children. They appear in his many scenes of family life at all ages, from infants to adolescents. This little girl of the lower class—her clothes announce her as such—has been given the job of knitting a stocking, not one for herself, but for an adult.

In the eighteenth-century it was not unusual to put girls to work. They were taught to knit and spin as young as four or five so that they could contribute to the family's economy. How long has she been knitting, one wonders, for her to fall asleep, needles still held in her hands?

Article and photo taken from knitting daily.

http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2010/04/09/Knitting-in-Art.aspx

Monet's Super Scarf's

Completed random strips random yarns , super long super wide super scarf;-)

Over sized scarf......For my daughter

Xmas is coming, FAST and so I'm on a knit mission, scarf's,Hats and shawls, basic and easy. This being my mind seems to be mush at the moment and a lack of attention an issue.

Winter brain freeze.

To many vampires..........

Strange occurrences

Whitby had just to many Vampires to park.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_Gothic_Weekend

Image Girl and boy taken from below site.

http://www.life.com/image/77533187

so off we went to
Scarborough Fish N Chips in a bag,by the sea (Yum)

Below York with Ms A Hatton (this name will soon be mentioned all over the knit world, I cant say yet but a certain little Quirky's hit the big time.



The York wall, yes as in the photo no safety rail and not a walk for a couple of ladies if they had a wine? luckily we hadn't at this point.

A weekend with Quirky little knits aka Angela, Bridget Jones mini break with out Daniel or Mark Darcy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_city_walls

Loving the houses (The architecture is just so pretty)

The heat is on in cup cake land.

CUP CAKES and A VILLAGE A WEEK

my challenge since I have returned to the UK has been a village a week. The biggest change that I had noticed with the tea rooms
Is the cup cake competition......

(One of my other fav things to do is visit tea rooms)

And I'm sucked in, loving the taste the look that added extras such as glitter, the pastels colours and the funky/kitsch display stands.

The heat is on in cup cake land.

Above

Village one , Walling-ford.....cute shop and cupcakes only how perfect.

My basic break down

Appearance
Taste
Sponge

Divine the first will be a hard act to follow with lovely lemon/glitter a sponge that melted, divine and bite sized, pretty perfect.

Worcester cup cake

Worcester

A uni whistle stop tour, and what a little gem my son found a little non chain health food restaurant, just on the corner of the local mini market.

Icing
The Rainbow icing pretty to look at a good texture, ripple effect but a little too much (sickly)

The sponge
Gorgeous ,melt in you mouth sponge.

Henley

Henley

The French coffee shop to on the corner,(I'm rubbish with names) very posh and great service wait to be seated.

Pistachio now it's funny as I'm really not keen on pistachio, but the green colour was just insatiable.

A little disappointed,the sponge was dry and the icing, more buttery than pistachio the worst yet.

But the shop and service great, I chose badly;-(to think I could have chosen pink.

Marlow (my favourite)

Marlow (Edible glitter) Award Winner

The coffee shop sat on the corner at the top of the high street.
(name...Loaf? something similar)

My favourite

The overall appearance, the sponge, the taste, the buttery topping and the little white Maltese an add winner. So far

Heathrow
Costa 2

Costa Air port

Weeellllllll I had to try the pink one........

Same same ok a little dry and straight from a packet but cute in appearance.

Costa Milton Keynes 1

I blogged the two Costa's around the wrong way this should have been 1st.

Milton Keynes (I know town not village, extended my brief).....I know a chain, but they didn't have much to choose from, no independent food stores all chains.

Lemon or pink, I took lemon and to be fair it was pretty ok.

A little dry but really better than expected and it may be of mass production but basically it was just what the perfect cup cake should look like.

Picnic Reading

Cup caked out.......

I took the veggie sumosa, beautiful , fresh with a spicy kick, it even felt very healthy fired (not fatty) and with a just baked freshness very enjoyable.

I think I need a new challenge as the cup cakes are now over done.;-(

Apologies for forgetting names, basically this took months and as with a lot of thing that you think you'll remember you don't and I didn't so coffee shop names got forgotten.

Also I did want to mention Lou lou belle, Pangbourne.........
Not good, not even a cup cake on display!!! I had to just have lunch and shockingly it has gone a little down hill.

Playing catch up.......

Lets knit
(Last months, still on sale)

I know that I keep harping on about the fact that I was the back page of lets knit but here I go again.

This photo was in a local news agents, the thus magazine for sale with me/my story in it!.;-)

My dress that's in Jackson's, more art than actual wearable dress
but I makes me smile.

Only for the month so not long left until the 8th? (ish) to see the dress in the flesh if you have not yet.

Jock (Bucks goats centre)

Great value place, affordable/ one may say cheap.

Half term over and the reason for catch up is that Monet and I had an eventful one, trying to find as many petting zoo's well more farms as possible. Fuelling my daughter obsession with her possible vet career(only time will tell)

My recycled dress that became a poncho is now completed.

(previous post "The Village" and you can see how its life began)

Tonnes and tonnes of stitches and I feel it's now become a little bit more Mary Pop-pin's than The Village and I may get blown away;-)

Hats

This is a B'n'S Beanie (my only rough pattern two plain two purl) winters coming and as always nearing Xmas the hats are all lost..........

This is my New York yarn from Jan its wool and acrylic, I have made many of theses before but for some reason I think that I used the wrong sized needles and the large came up toddler size? go figure.


So being clever I decided to make my own pattern, only this is in prototype mode.

I used needles (12) but when I completed the hat the join was so messy chunky wool, chunky seam.

I realised that If id knitted on a round.... no join? (Sherlock moment) so I'll re-do on a round.

Hat collection started, prototype one nearly ready.......... watch this space.

My own hat pattern in the making.