The weekend is over (well nearly!)

Hi Everyone,

Hope you’ve all ahd a fab weekend. I haven’t had much time to do knitting this weekend (what’s new?). However, I did visit my cousin today. You may recall me saying that I made a knit kit for her birthday. Well, she’s been getting on really well with the scarf, not many holes at all. I was actually really impressed. Anyway, everyone’s been giving her a bit of a hand with it so I knit a few rows of it. That reminded me of one of the throws that was discussed in the Mason-Dixon knitting book. If I recall correctly, someone had every female member of their family knit a few squares and they made a throw out of it. This sounds like a really lovely idea and I’d love to do something like that. It would make a really special present when someone leaves to go to university, a new house or gets married. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I have that many family members to participate! Has anyone else made something special like this?

the knitted cupcake x

Food for thought

Hello,

Hope everyone had a good Monday and didn’t find going back to work too painful! I didn’t get any knitting done at all today! How rubbish! However, I did take a good look at our knitted cupcake group on Ravelry, where people have started some chatter about knitted/crocheted food. There’s some good patterns for crocheted desserts on this website:

http://www.normalynn.info/freepatterns.html

At the weekend, it was my cousin’s birthday and I thought I’d try and get her into knitting (she’s 17). I thought all the knitting kits were boring/expensive/wrong colours and so I thought I’d create my own. I bought a couple of balls of wool, some needles and picked up a free ‘How to Knit’ leaflet from my local Hobbycraft shop. I then wrote a simple pattern for a striped scarf, typed it up on the computer, printed it on pretty paper and started the scarf off for her. I called it a ‘Knit Kit’. Not sure if any of the retailers use this name (they probably do) but I thought it had quite a funky ring to it. Here are some pictures of the Knit Kit. They’re not very good quality for some reason though!

Knit Kit 1

Knit Kit Gift Tag

Knit Kit Label

I have lot of knitting things to do this week, just not sure when I’m going to get time to do them all! I’ve currently got several WIPs, including the mystery project that myself and my friend are making. We’re messaging parts of the pattern every few days and neither of us know what we’re knitting – great fun!

the knitted cupcake x