Here it is completed! I still look at this in awe as I can’t believe I assembled 800 diamonds to create the star. A big thanks go to my mum who cut out all the diamonds for me, a mammoth job in itself. I’m really pleased with it and look forward to having it hanging over the wardrobe in my bedroom. In the meantime my cat is enjoying using it as a tent, as it’s hung over a chair in my lounge!
I fell in love with this poncho when I saw my friend wearing it! I managed to borrow the pattern last year, but have only just managed to find some wool to knit it in. The pattern is a bit of a nightmare, I can’t figure out the tension at all, so I’m knitting an adaption of it. I have the right size needles and the proper wool but mine comes out much bigger. My tension is the same as my friends, which makes me suspect that the pattern is wonky….
I know it seems mad to be looking towards winter in August, and when we finally have some hot sunny weather at last, but I am really enjoying knitting it!
There’s a bit of a sense of deja vu here… but here’s the block of the month for August. I was a bit worried about doing the same design twice in one month and considered doing the September block this month and leaving this one until next month. But a few days after giving the other quilt to my friend I wanted to make another one for myself! So here it is. I loved doing this one. Poppies are probably my favourite flower and it is such a bright cheery design and nice big simple pieces to applique!
Here’s what I have been working on for the past week, it’s a present for a friend. I was quite sad to see it go, as I really like it! The design is actually the August block of the month, but it’s quite a big one this month - 15" by 41" so it works quite well as a hanging on it’s own (it’s quite a nice size for the back of a door I think). My friend had joked that she wanted it making for her birthday so I decided to suprise her by actually doing it!
And here’s what my mum made for her, the pumpkin doll on the right in the photo. I made the doll on the left a while back and she’s been quite admired although she was always faceless as I never had the nerve to try and make a face (I was scared I’d ruin it if I did). So my mum gave her a face when she made the doll for my friend.
