Elves

Nearly Advent. Time to call on those little Christmas helpers. Hurray!

Remembrance Poppy

I have designed a pattern for this poppy just in time for Remembrance Sunday. You can find the pattern on my Ravelry page.
All proceeds from patterns sales will go to the Royal British Legion, a charity which supports serving members of the Armed Forces, ex-Service men and women (veterans), their families and dependants all year-round.

Please consider supporting this cause.

Christmas slippers

It is certainly time to start thinking about Christmas knitting - both for presents and for our church Christmas fair.

Here is a pair of Christmas slippers (crocheted, not knitted). The free DROPS pattern is available here.

I haven't fully decided, but these slippers will most likely be for my daughter.

Big Knit 2012 update

Today was the last day to hand in the little hats for the Big Knit.
Here is what our knitting group at work produced:

27 hats at 25 p each makes a grand total of £6.75 for Age UK.

The Big Knit is back!

For those of you who don't know:
What is the Big Knit?

For the Big Knit, Age UK and innocent (smoothies) ask knitters of all ages to get creative and come up with their own designs for mini-woolly hats to be placed on top of their smoothie bottles and sold in Boots and Sainsbury's stores throughout November. For each hatted bottle sold, 25p is donated to Age UK to help make winter warmer for older people across the UK.

So every year knitters all over the UK get knitting to produce thousands of these little bottle hats. And the creativity and diversity of the hats produced is never-ending.

Give it a go! The patterns can be found on the bottom of this innocent page.

Please send all knitted hats by 1st October to
Age UK Oxfordshire, St Edmund House, 39 West St Helen Street, Abingdon OX14 5BT.

Here are some fruity Big Knit hats I made a couple of years ago.

Strawberry hat

Unusually, I haven't knitted at all for the last couple of months or so. I am glad to have started again. September usually heralds the first knitting preparations for Christmas.

Here is a little strawberry hat (first size), which I made for the grand-daughter of a friend. I wrote the pattern several years ago and it can easily be adapted for a variety of other fruit or veg (tomato, aubergine, apple, pumpkin etc).

My next project is already on the needles: hubby's Christmas socks (by now a firm tradition)

Marie's puppy

I made this little puppy for my niece Marie. Apparently her toy dog was pregnant and expecting puppies ... so I got those knitting needles out!

The pattern comes from Cath Ren on Ravelry and can be purchased for USD 3.50. Worth every penny!