Work in Progress Wednesday

Hi all

Sorry this wasn't posted on Wednesday but I was too ill to face doing anything!

This weeks Work in Progress is another project for #twitknitclub but with the knitted items being auctioned off in aid of Sport Relief. You can read all about it on Teen Granny's blog here, and all the details are on there if you wish to donate something yourself or just to bid on the donated items- I've already got my eye on a few items myself!

I have decided to knit a tea cosy like the picture below

I have really wanted to knit this tea cosy ever since I got the pattern book and this was the perfect excuse to knit it. The pattern, however, involves knitting with a chart which I have never done before. And of course I choose an occasion where the result will be auctioned off to charity to try it out- it makes perfect sense!!!

Below is a picture of my progress so far and I'm really please with it. I went round to my grandma's for a lesson in how to knit to a chart and the trickiest bit, I found, was not following the chart itself but keeping tangle free with 4 balls of wool attached to your work insead of the usual 1!

I have already decided to change the pattern slightly from what is printed, (I always seem to do this!) I'm going to put the 'I love T' design on both sides and I'm going to put a bobble on the top in the cream, red and black instead of the knitted red one in the pattern. I'm also thinking about making a lining for it so it keeps the tea pot extra warm.

Hopefully you feel inspired to donate something yourself or to bid on items going into the auction in a couple of weeks. I will post more information about that nearer to the time with my finished tea cosy pictures!

Thanks for reading and have a good week!

Xxx

Finished Friday 27th January

Hello and welcome to my first Finished Friday on my new blog!

The idea of this post is that you aim to finish a project every friday and this blog is going to spur me on to keep completing projects.

They don't have to be massive projects that you finish every week and most of mine will be little ones that I've half started aages ago but finally got round to finishing.

Today my Finished Friday is two knitted hearts. I am a member of twitknitclub on twitter and our current knitting project has a valentines theme so I decided I would try out knitting some hearts. I plan to make a few more of various sizes (and maybe even attempt to crochet one as part of my plan to teach myself to crochet this year) and in different colours but these will be the biggest ones that I make.

They were really easy and quick to make- only took a couple of hours for each one. The pattern is from ravelry and can be found here. The red one I did a little wrong as I didn't read the pattern properly but I think it still looks ok.

So that is my Finished Friday for today! Feel free to share any pictures of what you are finishing today.

Happy crafting

xxx