Tychus from Knitty, knitted for my almost 4 year old. Whimsical icord added to sprout out of the top, and a rocket button added centre front at His Nib's bidding.
Cotton Ease baby blanket - pattern from Rowan magazine #33 by Kim Hargreaves.
free pattern for Panta available on the web, just google it, teh pattern will come up!
Shining star woollen hat (I don't wear beanies!). Pattern by Kate Gilbert, available from her website. Yarn is left over Jo Sharp 8 ply in purple
A llittle cardigan knitted for Caitlyn in 8 ply - pattern available on the web at Interweave knits for a short time only - a great knit
A jumper for DS Ian aged 3.5 yrs. Size 4 , Cleckheaton pattern from my collection circa 1997 or 1998. Intarsia trains, button wheels and embroidered smoke. I took liberties with the striping repeat. Jo Sharp yarn.
This is Nothing But a Tshirt by Alison Hansel; knitted in Rowan Calmer, 50/ 50 cotton acrylic blend in white and trimmed with laurel (green). I had 1 or 2 balls left over, so didn;t use all the yarn required
Panta the first - cotton ease in sugar plum, with knitting elastic stranded alongside. Just google for the pattern, it's sure to come up!
The Ribby Cardi - pattern from Chicknits. Made with wool bought in 1998 from New Zealand; a holiday purchase, hand dyed.
A pattern from Melissa Leapman's "Hot knits" - the first of several I want to tackle from this book. I like the wide straps to go over my nursing bras and I made a larger size than normal to fit the nursing bust. It is a good fit around the bust so I am happy. I used (Australian) Heirloom 8 ply 100 percent cotton, about half of the yardage the pattern called for.
boring socks for my never boring DH Tony - cast on 72 sts and just keep on going. I only made these because he was wearing work socks out to dinner one night and I was appalled
DH and I found an injured juvenile native barn owl on the road late one night nad took it to the local vets.
The owl could not be saved, but to say thanks for coming and meeting us and looking at the owl on a Sunday morning, (and then not charging us a fee for putting the poor bird out of its misery) I wanted to make a little something. This is the result was a dc crochet blamkie
My Sitcom chic - here's the pattern reference
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring03/PATTsitcomchic.html
I made a matching woollen hat with Bonne Marie's kind permission with stitch features to match the cardi
I used a fullsome 8 ply in hot pink/ cerise from Nundle Woollen Mills (Australia) and still have some left over!
A knitty pattern - here's the link - http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring04/PATTrosebud.html
I used 8 ply 100% wool from Waverley Woollen Mills in Tasmania, Aust in shade "Amethyst". Plenty left over from 3 x 200g skeins.
This is a jumper I made for my DH - it is a bit too warm for him to wear most of the time, which is a real shame. I also knitted it for myself, and boy, was I ever sick of the pattern after casting this off! Matching his n hers jumpers might look sweet but...
Never again!
I made this scarf for my DH when we were first living in glorious sin because wintertime at Uluru (which was where we were living at the time) was very cold. No pattern - made it up - used a varigated 8 ply Cleckheaton yarn with 70% wool and 30% mohair composition
