Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Knitting Mug Cosies



I feel as though I have too many thoughts jumbling and tumbling around in my mind today. This is the third time I've tried to write a blog post. I tried writing about the lovely, soaking, dam-filling rain we've had, and I wanted to say thank-you for your kind thoughts and words on my last post, and I wanted to tell you about some of the exciting plans I have at the moment but which I really can't share yet.
All of that feels like it's on a high-speed spin cycle around my brain, so I'm hitting the pause button and stopping to simply write about my knitting. Because when in doubt, it always seems like a good place to go.



My first project for the year has turned out to be a mug cosy. I made one in 2014, and for some unknown reason I was suddenly inspired to make some more. I wanted to make one using the sheep from the Baa-ble Hat pattern, so I did. Being a prototype, it needs improving, but I'm still really happy with how it turned out. Oddly though, I've forgotten to take a photo of it finished so one of it unfinished will have to do.
After doing that I was inspired to sketch some new designs, to put around a mug in the form of a cosy, and that is why my desk is such a mess in the photographs above.
I'm working on a little woodland themed set of cosies at the moment. I'm so excited to share them with you when I'm finished! I'm being rather naughty though, not writing down a pattern as I go. I haven't done that for ages, but writing patterns takes time and I just wanted to sit and simply knit.



What is your first project of the year? Have you started or finished one yet?
I've been making blanket squares too, but as that is for an on-going project I don't really count it as a "new" project.

Happy making!


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18 comments

  1. Well, I for one, LOVE the sound of a mug cosie! I would love one to keep my cup of tea warm on my desk as I write and I ADORE the woodland pattern and colour. ! Will you happen to make any for sale, Sarah?

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    1. Thank-you Margareta! I actually was thinking of maybe making some to pop into my shop, I'll keep you posted x

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  2. Can't wait to see the finished woodland product. Yarn is always a good pause...x

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  3. Will ya look at those sheep! How gorgeous are they ... in fact they're giving me sheepy ideas ;) xo

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    1. Thank-you Kellie, I'm glad they inspired you :-) x

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  4. I would love to see these as a pattern Sara, or for sale too!!!! I mean who wouldn't ❤a sheep mug cozy???

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  5. This is a long time I wanted mug cozy but you know!! When I knit and have projects...those little things are far away from me..but I really want some.
    Yours are very beautiful! and it gives me the taste to make one for me too!
    I am looking forward to see them finished;)
    Rose.

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    1. Thank-you Rose! Mug cosies are fun little projects to make x

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  6. Your knitting is just so lovely Sarah. Hooray for rain and those exciting plans. I love a tin of new, tidy pencils...something rarely seen in a house with children! Our pencils tend to be in jumbled piles, sharpened down to tiny pieces and scattered wherever they were last used x

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    1. Thank-you Jane! I remember as a child having tiny, tiny pencils in a favourite colour, kept until they were too small to hold onto.

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  7. Those sheepies look so Cute! Glad to hear the dam is looking better.

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  8. I am knitting litte squares for a bab blanket as I found out that my best friend is pregnant just before Christmas! I am doing my best to make them pretty, but I am not the greatest at knitting yet :D

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    1. Oh making for babies is so much fun. I'm sure your blanket will be lovely! x

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  9. Just clicked over here from Frontier Dreams. Love your cosies and cannot wait to see the woodland set.
    Then I noticed the EG in the side bar. I just happened to have borrowed that issue from the library yesterday. Looked for your article - must be the chick one?! I just love hatching chicks - nothing like those little peeping balls of fluff. I will look forward to reading your blog from now on. Glad I found you, in that random clicking around way you do in blogland!

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    1. Hi Jayne! I'm glad you found here too, and thank-you for your kind words. Yes the chick hatching article is mine, and there's also another in that issue about what to plant in your spring garden that's mine too :-)

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