Minxxys World

Mission nearly accomplished

Back to work tomorrow and I have nearly completed my goal of two sets of curtains and 8 cushion covers.In fact, I have a few things outstanding. To keep me focused, I am going to create a list and work through it. Here goes...

• make cushion covers for the 4 new pads I bought last week, destination couch!
• Finish of this months squares for the mystery blanket 09

• Finish Elvis for Laura H

• Return to Mermaid and churn out a few rows

• Why has this started to go all funny?

I have managed to complete......

              

Floor cushions for the Nursery. The white ones are made from chopping a pillow down the middle, re sewing the edges and then making the covers using old cream curtains with a piece of the fabric appliqued onto the front.

                 

A childs pinwheel sweater . Made from stash yarn and it feels good to have made something for very  little output.

                 

Leigh's curtains. Didn't she chose the colour well? It confirms to me that a room is never finished until it has curtains. She had a wooden blind but it always looked as if there were something not right... it needed curtains. She (and I) love them. Fully lined and tucked in behind the radiator, just the way MaDGe likes curtains. The radiator looks horrible in the picture but it has been painted pearlescent and it is far better looking in real life.

See you all in a few weeks time. Sporadic blogging is the new black dontcha know?

What have we been up to??

Building snowmen in the snow. Mines seems to have a sinister twist to it........

Leigh's has punk rock hair....

... and to save the Vice squad storming my home and taking away my computer to search the hard drive, I have covered up the sensitive part of MaDGe's creation! Thank the Lord Leigh is quite sensible and just shrugs her head at our shennanigans!

Kerry ( aka Amy MacDonald or Lily Allen/Allan) is 22. Happy aint she?

Leigh has been studying (Hmmm!)

 Scally was the designated driver at the Coyotes do... and happy to be doing so ............... or not! Get well soon carmen. You didn't need to throw yourself down the stairs and break your ankle just to get outta Chicken Licken taking you home

  The master bedroom has been painted and curtains have been butchered. I never even used a measuring tape once as I had to reuse the linings from an old pair of curtains. Let's just say they weren't straight! They'll do until the credit crunch is over and I can buy new lining.I have evened up the other side and both sides are now the same length (or as near the same as you can get without measuring.)

Leigh's ripple blanket has been on the floor, wrapped round her smelly teenage feet then under the duvet, lounged on by the cat, and basically used and loved by all.

 It needed a wash.

 I needed a valium.

I looked at it.

I put it back in the washing.

Leigh took it back out again and used it.

I reminded her it needed a wash.

It went back in the laundry basket.

I looked at it again.

I wondered about submerging it in the bath with some mild wool wash from Lakeland.

I picked it up and instantly remembered how damn heavy it was.

I scrapped the bath idea.

I threw it next to the washing machine.

It lay there.

I moved it to cook.

It lay next to the washing machine again.

I had a thought.... and instantly dismissed it.

I had another thought... it was the same one.... and went for it this time.

I threw it in the machine , wool wash, pressed the button and stood back in horror!!!!

I panicked that  it would all end in tears.

I walked away.

I took it out the machine and all was fine.

I had another thought.

I thought I'd live dangerously..... so i threw it in the dryer!!!!!!!!!

Cool cycle,  two x 40 minute tumbling time and now it's finishing off on the radiator.

And to look at it, you wouldn't even know the trauma it had just been through!

Thank crunchie I crocheted it in cotton!

Inspirational knits

I  have been knitting! I seem to have lost my mojo at the minute as I don't really know what I want to be doing so I am just plodding along doing bits and bobs.

In response to Michaela's comment, the knitted item I had pinned out could be decribed in two ways. I could dress it up and say it was an inspirational knit or I could tell you the bog standard answer.... it's a de stash! Infact, it's a leftover destash. This little children's cardi has a big sister. Can you guess who she is?

                        

Look at those little buttons. They look like petrol in water and I love them. Can you tell who her older version is yet?

 

Of course, it's Tipsy! Did you guess right?

 

Look how different the colours look. I used a Sirdar pattern book ( can't remember which one, I'd need to go and search for it) omitted the butterfly motifs and using the random stripe generator, cast on and a little sister was born. I am really please how it has turned out...and I am sure Scarlett will too.

Thanks for the offers of wool, it might bring my mojo back!

Begging post

I have such a cheek! I don't post for ages and them when I do it's to ask/plead/beg *delete as applicable

Basically, I want to knit lots of little bowls for work. The children had adored playing with little 'jewels' (named by them). They are infact a varied range of those little pebble things you put in the bottom of vases before filling with water. They. love.them.

They have been used for sorting, counting, play food, snow falling on the igloo (which we made from recycled milk containers)...you name it, they have played it.

There are a few knitted bowls there, but, we need more. Which means, I am on the look out for scraps of wool that can be knitted and then felted. Double knitting, aran, chunky.... it makes no difference to me

 We need beautiful containers to go with our jewels. Can you help?

If like the man from Del Monte you say yes!! drop me an email or leave a comment and I will get back to you. If not, leave me a comment anyway!

 Thanks!

testing - why is HTML so hard?!

Hi all... I am just trying a few things out... if there are still people who come by here expecting to see an update, sorry it's only testing!

Does anyone still come here?