Recycling

 I need to prepare a project for tomorrow's craft group meeting. I had in mind some sort of woven basket using ribbon, to put sweets in. (Sweets, candy, lollies, whatever you call them!) Yesterday I experimented with skewers and cardboard, but the results were not very neat, won't work. I remembered seeing on Pinterest weaving around cut yoghurt cups. I don't have any yoghurt cups, but I do have some 1 litre milk bottles. Would that work? I think so.

I'll prepare the bottles. Weaving shouldn't take much time, so I'll take along felt in case people want to make felt flowers or something to decorate the baskets further. 

Another Cowl

 

I thought I'd add a lacy cowl to the collection.  I adapted a hat pattern that I've knitted before, Fishtail Hat Pattern by Gail Bable. I added a few repeats to the circumference and, of course, didn't do any decreasing. It's an easy pattern to memorise and I think effective.  Using a short circular needle, it was very easy to knit round and round

Wiggle

 

The pattern is called Just Wiggle It Cowl, by Susan Ashcroft on Ravelry.  As soon as I saw it, I knew it was next on my cowl knitting agenda! It's a clever pattern. The zigzags are created with slipped stitches, I think that's called mosaic knitting. So you work with just one colour at a time, and it's not as heavy as it would be worked in fairisle. The shaping is also clever. You increase on one side and decrease on the other to create a slant, so when you join the ends , by grafting, the stripes are diagonal. It was fun to knit, I may need to make another one. 

Goats And Troll

 

I was tasked with making a felt storyboard for the Three Billygoats Gruff story. Mmm, not as easy as the weather one. I tried printing out cartoon pictures of goats to use as a pattern, but they were all too complicated. In the end I had to take a deep breath and draw my own. I used it for all three goats, just varying their horns, though I think that strictly speaking they should vary in size. I was worried that the small bits like legs and ears would be vulnerable, so I appliqued each one to a piece of felt. 

 I looked up trolls on the internet. Goodness, there are a huge variety of trolls on there! The unifying factor seems to be that they're green. So mine is green, though how 'correct' it is, I have no idea. 

Round 10

 

 I think I managed round 10 of the Spring doily without any mistakes, hooray. 

Weather Chart

 

Last week I had a message from another of the teachers I did a project for last year, asking if I could paint characters onto wooden spoons for her to use as story props. Mmm, no. I explained that I'm a fibre person, who can sew and knit and tat, but that I avoid paint and glue if at all possible! So she sent me pictures of a weather chart and a Three Billy Goats Gruff storyboard to do in felt instead. Here's the weather chart. The green bit is a pocket to put the unused symbols in, the children will choose the appropriate ones for the weather on the day. Teacher has a song to go with it. 

Nearly

 

I made it most of the way through round 9 without a mistake, but I must have been hurrying to finish because I made a mistake on the final repeat. By the time I'd figured out what the mistake was, I'd already hidden the yellow thread. I think that the number of flowers on the outside is correct, so I decided to leave the mistake. It would be a mission to sort out, and then likely be more noticeable than if I just left it alone.