Work clothes

I've set myself a bit of a challenge, I'm starting a new job April 21st and want some new clothes to go with.

I've decided on this blouse, I'm making two as I've enough lovely fabric to do so. One fabric is a small flower and the other is a stripe (as soon as my new camera arrives I'll get pictures up).

I going to attempt a bust adjustment as I'm gifted in that area but don't want the shoulders to be to large. I'll let you know how it goes.

I also wish to make a couple of pairs of trousers, haven't decided on the pattern yet, I've been looking for a nice bootleg pant and can't find one, I was given instructions on how to adapt a pattern and may give that a go.

Happy hounds

Dog-ghan 2 is now complete and both dogs are very happy, thought they were going to have a tussle over who got to lay on it first but it worked out fine.

Two very happy dogs now :-)

My hands now feel a little lost, what am I going to do whilst watching TV, will have to find another project, oh, the hardship LOL.

Grrrrrrr.

The socks were coming along so well, I'd done the heal flap and started on the gusset when I noticed a mistake.

I decided I'd just rip them back to before the mistake but of course I did that wrong and ended up having to frog the lot (sob, howl, hit my head against a brick wall) so now I'll have to start them again, humph!

I'm so unimpressed with myself, will have to learn how to rip back and correct mistakes without having to redo the whole thing. I know it's only socks but I've done this with bigger things as well, my husbands cardigan comes to mind. I've lost count of the number of times I frogged that and had to restart. The cardigan has now had it's final frogging and I won't be restarting it with that particular yarn.

Going back to the socks, I would like to make them smaller as I've small feet and they did look rather large but the magazine I got the pattern from only had the one size, will have to look into weather I can actually make them smaller.

Socks

I really must stop casting things on!

I've now cast on for a pair of socks, Marella by Jeanette Trotman. I got the pattern from issue 3 of Let's Knit magazine. Have found out they are also called Stripy Lace Socks from the Easy Knitted Socks book.

All's going well the pattern is very easy, the only problem I've got is with the DPNs. They just keep getting in the way of each other, it could be because this is my first pair of socks and I'm being cack handed but I think for the next socks I'll have to buy some circular needles and do them that way.

The DPNs are pretty though, they actually came with that issue of the magazine.

K9 Knitters Greyhound dog coat

I decided to do the larger coat as Carrie at K9 mentioned that most people do the smaller ones (I'm assuming this is because they're quicker/less expensive to make) So a greyhound coat it is. I'm using yarn from my stash, the same stuff I used for the jacket from Simply knitting magazine. I think it's a Sirdar yarn but to be honest I can't really remember.

I've just transferred the knitting to circular needles as it's quite heavy and thought they'd be better for my wrists.

Hmm, there seems to be a server error with Blogger and it's not allowing me to upload the picture, will try again later.

Interesting knits for charity

I've just come across a website called K9 Rescue Knitting Club, it seems a worthy cause and I'd like to help them out. I've two dogs of my own so am always attracted to rescue causes.

At the moment finances are dictating that I shouldn't buy anything but my yarn stash is saying I can definitely make something for them, time on the other hand is a completely different matter :-)

I will just have a nosy around and see if I can find any nice patterns that would work well with my stash.

If you've the inclination, have a look at their site, you never know you may spot the perfect thing for your happy hound or pampered pooch.

Also need to spread the word about Knitted Boob Appeal 2008, the boobs help new mothers learn how to breastfeed and express milk, check them out.

Mother's Day gifts.

As mentioned on Friday I decided to make mother's day gifts as money is a bit of an issue at the moment.

Anyway I made both my mother and mother-in-law the same thing, a crochet bag. Just a simple granny square, joined together with SC and TBC. I used Robin Chunky and a 6mm hook, this gave me a 10inch square.

Hope they like them and use them.