Knitting Kitty

I'm not sure whether Flic wants to learn to knit and crochet or whether it is her stamp of approval ....

My winter waistcoat

Blanket for Tanzania

St Mungo hats for the homeless

Throw for Rachel's bed

New baby -Evie's blanket

Coast picture

New baby - Conor's blanket

My large all purpose bag

Blanket for Tanzania

And if all else fails just hide in the knitting basket!

 If I leave wool down at all she is all over it!

Hombolo Handover

The 'Hookery Three'

Hombolo team and honorary ' MC' Mags

Tonight's Hookery saw the handover of various creations to Ricky, Grace & Matthew, who will be bringing them out to Hombolo on Saturday 19th October.

Comments had been made that in previous years the male residents of the village had benefitted greatly from the visit, and perhaps it would be nice to do something more for the ladies. Well Angela started the whole thing off with a beautiful crocheted blanket and followed this up with patchwork bags from her sewing group.  Other ladies provided blanket - Helena, Heather Boss and Queen Niqi.  Then some baby hats and teddies were provided too.  Leigh came along with some 'pillowcase dresses' for young girls which were so beautifully made.

Grace, Matthew and Ricky were very surprised by the huge amount of handmade garments we have gathered for their trip.   They also remarked on the amount of detailed work that had gone into each piece of work.

Bon voyage to our three travellers but also to the whole group of 12 from Northern Ireland who have gone out.

And teddy went too

Twin set and purrs

I have been working on two colour co-ordinated throws for a room with twin beds.  The colours are the same in both throws but the patterns are very different.

One of the occupants really likes cats so I was asked to make her a cat blanket.  Thanks to Guru Paricia for showing me how to crochet a cat pattern :-)

The cat throw is still a work in progress and will eventually be the same size as the granny square throw.

It might also need a little bit of blocking to get the shape just right .......  I don't think the cat has got the right idea about how I want to straighten the piece out!

Lots of other crochet has been progressing while we have been having a little hookey holiday.

Queen Niqi's shawl

Helena's warm winter jumper

A flimsy frilly fashion scarf

Guru Patricia's baby blanket

Anne's mini hat

Rosemary's Sammy Sheep

These two little characters have been knitted by Rosemary and Anne to go on mini Innocent bottles sold in Sainsburys in aid of Age Concern.

A hat for Daniel

Daniel loved the hats I was knitting so I bought some wool to knit him one, but it was too windy to start here. Didn't take long when I got back to the caravan.