JUST A QUICKIE...

...before running off to work. A friend shared a link with me this morning that I'd like to pass on too! Mum, Grandma, Sarah, get your knitting needles out! A yarn store in New Zealand are requesting people to knit jumpers for penguins that have been affected by the country's oil spill.

Skeinz the yarn store first sent the pattern out only this week which you can find here, the crochet pattern will be out soon so keep an eye on their blog to keep updated. Above you can see some of the stores recent arrivals and some of the lovely penguins keeping warm and trendy with their jumpers on (Photo credit: Toby Zerna/Newspix/Rex USA). Read the full story here on the abc news website.

A WARM WOOLLY

Made by Sarah, posted by Marie!

Sarah sent me these pics ages ago and it's only now I've managed to get them up in a post. I think the background resources for photographing pieces on is a but scarce in Wales. Even though they do have a good old supply of some of my materials! So, I've made the background a little prettier than what it was (that's my excuse for late posting!) to show off this, oh so comfy looking baby jumper. I just love the collar on it, it makes you want to pull it up close around your neck and melt inside its cosiness!

Mum is just finishing off a baby set for a friend (coming soon) and Sarah has perhaps one more baby piece to post up, but as far as making anything new for the bambinos this year we've come to a bit of a halt in order to make ourselves some woolly mammoths for the upcoming wintery weather.

I've just one more sleeve on my converted Aran pattern and it will be my first adult jumper done : ) ...ever, Wahoooo! I don't think I'll be done completely for a couple of weeks again yet as I'm prepping to sell some hand made bits on a stall in Liverpool, coming up in about a week or so. Busy busy! More on that to come soon.

I WANT ONE PLEASE!

Aw! I keep saying I need a machine that does the reverse of what Willy Wonka's shrinking machine that Mike Teavee went into for my knitting! When I completed this gorgeous jumper for my friends baby almost everyone who I showed it too now wants one in their size too! It's a really easy pattern and just the simplest of things like throwing in two knit rows in a contrast colour on the stocking stitch pattern gives a great effect. I have to admit that I may have had a bit too much fizz when I got to the top of the fair isle and the neck line and my amazing Grandma had to help out a bit ;  ) It was the first time I'd used a circular needle though! The pattern I used was from the same one as this lil beauty too.

KNITTING WIZARD GRANDMA!

This piece I'm sure has been knitted and undone at least 3 times! I managed to take a picture of it before Grandma changes her mind again as I really love the pattern she's doing. Grandma can probably whip up a jumper during the weekend if she wanted and what's more she can watch T.V whilst doing it and not even watch what her fingers are doing, amazing! Grandma says she enjoys the knitting more than the joy of being able to wear something you have knitted afterwards. So Sarah we'll have to buy some wool and find some patterns for her to do so she doesn't keep doing and undoing the same thing all of the time!! I don't know how she does it!

BAMBINO TALK

There's been quite a lot of baby talk this year with lots of my friends bringing little bambino's into the world. I haven't made many items for babies but as my first I quite liked this one. A friend of mine wanted one making but inside out as he preferred the pattern on the inside! I'm not quite advanced enough to transform baby size into adult size just yet though so he'll just have to do with the tie for now and wait a while!