Friday FO: Beachy Ripple & Garterrific

Well I am very relieved to be posting this!  As I type, the Beachy Ripple is in the washing machine, just in time for a little bit of blocking before the baptism on Sunday.  Unfortunately, as I was forcing myself to finish it in the very hot weather (I wanted to be doing anything other than a blanket whilst the sun was shining!), I realised that I hadn't made anything for my son's 9th birthday which is the day after the baptism.  I shall just have to make it up to him in some other way, I have an idea for a Star Wars embroidery I might try out.

I have actually done a couple of small projects as well, as I'm trying to figure out what to do for both my boys' teachers at the end of the year, which is woefully close.

I've also finally gotten around to putting tassles on my Garterrific mini shawl and taken photos of it being modelled by my small fella.

So there we go, some FOs!  I do finish things off eventually ;)

This weekend is set to be manic!  My eldest brother is visiting, it's Harley's birthday, we're going to a couple of Jubilee celebrations, and of course the baptism where I get to hand over my ripple blanket.  Hopefully I won't forget to take my camera along to any of it though.  Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, are you celebrating the Jubilee at all?

Vintage Rose FO

photo edited in later due to app photo being teeny

This is my first time blogging on my phone using the blogger app - hope it works!  I've been working on a handbag for one of my good friends who is a year older tomorrow, I'm skint so I pulled up ravelry, searched for something doable from stash I already had within 2 days and voila!

I used some crofter dk fairaisle effect yarn for the front and back, and a dusty pink Debbie Bliss Rialto for the rose petals.

I'm trying to stash bust and so pleased I managed to do so while making something just right for my friend.  She loves roses, and the whole vintage apparel thing.

Hopefully this post is successful as it'd be much easier to post from my phone because I don't seem to use the pc much at all. [edited to add... formatting was awful and pic was tiny, might be useful if I need to post on the go but it is no substitute for proper blogging, poor effort blogger!]

FO: Posey!

Meet Posey the pincushion!

This is not a fresh FO, but rather one from just before Christmas, I made three all together, two two tier ones as gifts for a couple of friends I had just taught to knit, and this one for my greedy self.  I added the little tie on bit to  keep some of my stitch markers handy as I always find it frustrating to dig around for them in the bottom of the bag I keep my circular needles in.

It was a quick knit, sewing the tiers together was a bit of a pain and I actually managed to break a needle by trying to bash it through, but it was worth it as they turned out soo cute and used up some yarn scraps.  I found I had to be careful when stuffing them as one of them was stuffed too tight, and I was not the best at sewing the yarn around to created the petals either but I am still pleased with the end result.

I don't knit all that much any more, unless I find a must-have pattern or yarn, so once I've shown a couple of bits I've done over the past few months I can't imagine this will be a regular feature here, but I am developing a bit of an embroidery bug!