I sincerely hope that this is as close as I come to a snowman this winter, but he's awfully sweet. He's from Mochimochiland's tiny collection, brilliant patterns and well written and clear to understand, I'd recommend them. Knitted in Sandnes Garn mini duett (bought at Scandinavian Knitting Design) with a thread of Drops Glitter alongside, his scarf is rather big for him, I forgot that it was supposed to be 4ply, but at least he won't get cold?
The penny is in the picture for size reference, not because he has holes in his pockets as one of my Ravelry friends suggested! I think I'm firmly in Christmas mode already, but if you knit presents and decorations I suppose you need to get organised early.
1. I'm aware it's been a while since I last posted, unfortunately I haven't been too well, I overdid things somewhat and then muddled up the date of my flu jab and turned up 24 hours too early. This lead to me missing sleep to get up early two days running which is what finished me. It seems that despite more than 12 years' practice I still haven't quite got the pacing thing quite right.
In order to combat my disorganisation I have purchased a diary for the coming year, it's simple, small but stylish and a great cheerful colour.
2. I have been enjoying this song a lot lately, it is simple but full of hope
3. I have done a lot of knitting lately but most of it is secret Christmas knitting, which I can't show on here just in case. In between I have been doing some small ornaments though such as the small jumper below. I'm also having a go at the adorable mini snowman from Mochimochiland's miniatures' collection.
4. I'm very excited about Kate Davies' forthcoming book The Colours of Shetland and am looking forward to knitting the shawl shown at the top of her blog and in the meantime am planning to knit her pattern which came out today - Snawheid hat, . You can see her adorable dog Bruce helping with the photographs of the hat here.
I'll try not to let it be quite so long before the next post.
