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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.
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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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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?
ReplyDeleteThank-you Margareta! I actually was thinking of maybe making some to pop into my shop, I'll keep you posted x
DeleteCan't wait to see the finished woodland product. Yarn is always a good pause...x
ReplyDeleteYes it is! x
DeleteWill ya look at those sheep! How gorgeous are they ... in fact they're giving me sheepy ideas ;) xo
ReplyDeleteThank-you Kellie, I'm glad they inspired you :-) x
DeleteI would love to see these as a pattern Sara, or for sale too!!!! I mean who wouldn't ❤a sheep mug cozy???
ReplyDeleteThank-you so much! x
DeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteYours are very beautiful! and it gives me the taste to make one for me too!
I am looking forward to see them finished;)
Rose.
Thank-you Rose! Mug cosies are fun little projects to make x
DeleteYour 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
ReplyDeleteThank-you Jane! I remember as a child having tiny, tiny pencils in a favourite colour, kept until they were too small to hold onto.
DeleteThose sheepies look so Cute! Glad to hear the dam is looking better.
ReplyDeleteThank-you Meredithe! x
DeleteI 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
ReplyDeleteOh making for babies is so much fun. I'm sure your blanket will be lovely! x
DeleteJust clicked over here from Frontier Dreams. Love your cosies and cannot wait to see the woodland set.
ReplyDeleteThen 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!
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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