Lining fabrics.

This is a bright red polycotton, would be hard wearing and wash well.







This is a wonderful 100% cotton print that looks so much better in real life, muted but bright at the same time.









This is a cotton lawn, very bright with red and orange and so on, makes a great contrast against the chocolate brown of the granny squares.

These are the choices I've got, can't make up my mind which one would work best with the design/construction I'm planning on.

Mothering Sunday

It's this Sunday and I'm out of cash and time (bad planning on my part).

So, I've made some granny squares which will become lined bags for my mum and my mother-in-law. I only started last night and needed something that would be quick to make, so granny squares it was.

The granny's are made from chocolate brown chunky yarn, I'll line them with whatever I have in my fabric stash, hopefully something that will contrast well with the chocolate brown. Think I'll make the lining come up and over slightly and have fabric handles as well, should be quicker than knitting them.

Must remember to be more organised next year.

Hmmm, perhaps I should start planning for father's day now?

Carob does a happy dance.

Due to a wonderful person on Ravelry called Tuppence posting a tutorial for the Cross my Heart square I've now got a straight square, I've still a few niggles with it but am so pleased it's finally turned out straight I can live with the niggles

Nope, still not right, Cross My Heart = Heartbreak.

No matter how many times I try, I just can't seem to get this square to work. I'm going to give it one more shot, possibly in a different yarn.

I'm not overly fond of the pattern with the colours chosen by the designer but somebody posted a picture of their completed square in one colour and I thought it was lovely, just a shame mine has turned out so bad.

I;ve also been working on the second dog-ghan, having no problems with that (thank goodness) and should have it finished soon.

VVS dog-ghan two

Have done six rows so far, shall make it 102 like the last one.

Finished VVS

As you can see I've finished dog-ghan one, edged it with DC. It ended up being 102 rows wide. Both Rusty (pictured) and Bailey love it. The baby cardigan I'm working on just needs the finishing touches then it's good to go.

Oops.

I seem to of cast on for something else (so much for self control), found out my nephew and his girlfriend had their baby on Sunday (7lb baby girl) so I've started a jacket for them.

There is also a matching hat and booties, so I shall be busy working on that this weekend.

I've decided to make the 3-6months size as everybody seems to buy a newborn..well newborn sized clothes and I wanted to make something that would be handy for when baby is past that point.

It's been a lot of years since I had small children and it's really nice to be able to work on some baby clothes and actually have an excuse to do so, pattern is from Let's Knit issue 1.

So many things, so little time...

I'm wanting to make so many things at the moment, there just aren't enough hours in the day. I have been working on the Vintage Vertical Stripe dog-ghan and am now up to row sixty. Really pleased with how quickly it's working up, will soon be on number two, just have to figure out what yarn I'm going to use for it.

I've also made another Dream Catcher, after realising the reason the edges weren't doing it for me was the fact I'd mucked up American and British crochet terms, now have another one that lays much better. Will take a picture and get it up asap.

I also want to get started on February's crochet 12" square Cross my Heart, not too keen on the colours used and will be using a blue as well as the white I used for Dream Catcher (the blue is the only other aran colour I have).

Of course this all means the Hippy Handbag has once again taken a back seat, I will finish it, eventually.