So It’s been a while, I’ve been super busy cleaning and doing various life things. Silly life always gets in the way of craft time, especially at the moment, for this soon to be home owner, well at least a land owner for now. I have a few projects on the go hopefully I’ll get around to finishing them soon, to add some more content to this page.

Look what I’ve finally finished.

It measures about 3.8 metres with the tassels, this piece is heading off to my father-in-law as a belated Christmas gift.

This Scarf is made up predominately of acrylic yarn with two colours being pure wool, as I was having trouble matching colours with just acrylic

Apologies for the sad face I hate being in photographs.

This photo is of the scarf in blocking phase, it could have been longer but my lounge room was not long enough to make it reach it’s full potential.

I apologies for my absence, working has been eating into my crafting time I have a fair few projects on the go at the moment but I have had very little drive to finish any of them.

Here’s some thing that I finished recently.

Shredder in her glorious new knitted jumper.

This jumper was made using Bendigo Woollen Mills – Murano 100% pure new wool

I’m not much of a knitter but when I found a pattern designed for pugs I couldn’t resist especially when I had such pretty yarn to work with. The pattern was relatively easy and worked up fairly fast for a slow knitter.

Mama I’m too warm now, also can we go for a walk now?

Treats?

Shredder’s tale 

I’ve had Shredder since my previous dog passed when I was 17. When my parents split (the following year) I couldn’t keep her when I moved with my mum, my dad couldn’t handle 4 dogs on his own, so she unfortunately became a breeding dog for the place we got her, she was a breeding dog for 2.5 – 3 years, when the chance arose for me to get her back I couldn’t have said yes fast enough, my partner and I got a house which allowed pets and Shredder had finished being in her ‘breeding prime’. When I got her back it was time for some serious TLC and lots of walks. Shredder had always been a human orientated dog (her favourite part of the day was when I got home from school, now her favourite part of the day is when we get home from work), when I got her back she had been staved for attention but not for food, (she was a little overweight – 2kg to be exact – she still has excess skin from being larger) slowly we got her back to her safe weight range and back to her normal self. She’s now 6.5 years old and she’s starting to show signs of aging which is a bit premature for a small dog, but it could just be due to being breed too many times. As soon as we were able to we got her de-sexed, she’s never going to have to go through that again, I believe she’s happy, but I don’t know exactly what she’s thinking.

Shredder you’re always going to have my love, hugs and pats.

Tessa

Sleeping baby Shredder

A little startled

Thank you for reading

Here’s a link to the pattern on ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pug-dog-sweater

Recently a new idea popped up on my news feed and I couldn’t resist trying it, the concept of using your arms as knitting needles is intriguing as it is not something I had seen before, So a friend and myself set out to try it, initially it was hard to work out and it was a little fiddly, but once you get going it was fun and easy, the cast on and the first rows are probably the hardest parts as it’s not traditional knitting. The weave is very loose and it all most looks like a knotty mess, but after five rows it starts to make sense. the scarf took about 30 minutes – an hour to make and sew together to make an infinity scarf, the join looks rather messy as well, but it can easily be hidden whilst wearing.

I used Lincraft – Air yarn to make this scarf – Composition – 78% acrylic, 17% Nylon, 5% Wool. I double stranded this yarn when I was working up the scarf, i used 3/4 of both balls. The yarn I used was much thinner than used in the tutorial, so mine was much looser but I like it simply because it’s not too bulky to wear, it doesn’t get as cold in Australia, no snow 🙁  so it doesn’t need to be as warm

This is one of the most cozy comforting things I have ever worn, I get irritated by yarn easily, after about an hour or so it can get a little itchy, but it’s not to extreme to really annoy me.

The tutorial for the scarf can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPer3Xv2QSM

In the process of making the scarf

Not wrapped

Wrapped once

Wrapped twice

So it appears that this infrequent posting is becoming a thing which I apologise for.

I’ve been working on Christmas projects and stress out napping. Since the 4th doctor scarf was such a large project it’s on my list of projects that are for next years Christmas. So here’s a little update on it’s progress. This is the first time that I have to be in the photo of an item, it’s just so long and it’s only going to get longer 😛

Currently I’m about 470 rows in, which means only 600 to go woo, I’ve probably spent 40-50 hours on it already. This is certainly an insanely lengthy project, I’m slowly getting better at knitting, my speed is improving and I’m not quite so fish out of water/knitting like a crocheter. At least I have another whole year to finish this project.

Happy new years all. Have a great year 🙂

So I’ve started on my Christmas list which admittedly I’ve probably started a little late. I asked my Facebook friends what they thought the item I was working on was from and woo wee woo was the response I got, which to me made complete sense as it is a doctor who related item, and that’s have the theme tune goes, so anyway here is a little sneak peak of my current project.

This is soon to be a full length 4th Doctor scarf, eventually.

The pattern can be found at http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/s12.html