I couldn't resist....

.....one more set of Wrist warmers. These are from the fabulous Lucy at Attic 24. I absolutely love her use of colour on all her projects. I am pleased with mine and I love the green but I discovered tonight a lovely ball of wool in cranberry and I really wished I'd used it for a couple of stripes on these. I just would have liked a couple of more vibrant stripes in it. I can see me pulling these back and re-doing them this weekend...we'll see. The pattern was super-easy (as are all of Lucy's tutorials) but my first chain row was a bit tight on my arm so I turned mine upside down so the tighter end is around my fingers, which I really like.

I wish I'd had these last year when I broke my wrist-lol.



More scarves and wrist-warmers!!

Oh well, I know I said no more knitting scarves or wrist warmers after knitting them for me, Mum and my sister but my little niece kept trying them all on and complaining about the unfairness of them all being too big for her! She must have told me a hundred times how much she wanted them and how turquoise was her favourite colour, so yesterday I trawled Bury Market , and found turquoise wool! Today Geordie was fixing a neighbours car so I sat and watched Kirstie's Handmade Britain on Sky+, which I love, and knitted little girl versions of my scarflette and mittens.

I haven't sewn them up yet but here they are next to my 'big girl' version. I hope she likes them. The turquoise is a bit more vibrant than it looks on the picture and I know nine year olds can be flipping fussy, so fingers crossed.

Things I've been making....

Just got back into knitting and crochet. Been after a vintage-style tea cosy for ages so just had a go with some scraps of wool I had left. Decided to finish off with pom-poms as I have a bit of a pom-pom obsession and I got fed up making the big ones for my Monsoon-inspired scarf.

Handwarmers! I love these!! I can drive in them, get money out of my purse, look at my lovely Betty Blues nail varnish! I made these from double knitting which I usually hate because I get bored if it's not chunky wool that knits up fast but these were finished in a couple of hours. I'm def going to make more of these.

My lovely schmatta inspired by Amy on Angry Chicken , I love this too as it's perfect for driving in. It doesn't get in the way like scarves do. I wanted to make a teal one but they didn't have any super chunky wool in the wool shop in any colours I liked. I went for this on an impulse, it's chunky but I knitted 2 strands together. I really really really wanted to start knitting it straightaway so I had to choose something and get going. I'm really pleased with it, especially the purple vintage buttons I got off my mum.

I've started another one now in olive green....I feel a new obsession coming on!! Someone slap me quick!