A Year already??

Happy Blog day to me .............................Today is one year that I have been blogging, I am pretty chuffed that I have stuck with it for so long because sometimes I just don't have (blank) to say. But never the less I have here for a year and loving it. And no I am not going to do anything as original as a competition I have learn my lesson with that plus, only maybe 2 or 3 persons read this space anyway. So I am just going have me a nice slice of cake a glass of milk and reread all my previous post. So that I can see what I have done wrong and what I have done right and aim to make my blog a more inviting place.

On another note I have received my Swap package from the UK swap.I will post a pic later. It was totally unexpected. I am still waiting to finish my package to send off but right now I am paying a few debts off so I can sleep better at night.

I have been doing so much over the last few months, I am now knitting for 3 different charities Caring Yorkshire Hands Save the Children and Blankets for UK Hospitals, it's a really great feeling to know that some small item I have knitted will help to save a life or keep a child warm. I have already sent off 2 boxes of hats to Save the children and I am at present finishing up a few items for the Caring Yorkshire Hands and getting ready to start my first blanket for the UK Blanket charity which I have join over on KH . I will try to post Pics of a few of the FO's.

An update on my previous WIP some I have finished the Palindrome Scarf, the Pink Pinwheel Blanket and even went on to do An unoriginal hat I only have one item that is still on my needles well technically on waste yarn, that I have to finish and that is my first pinwheel blanket which was intended for my niece Kayla. but maybe I finish it on time for when she has her first baby. The blanket has so many stitches that It will no longer fit on any of my needles so I am searching for a longer one about 200 cm or so. because I want to move on I hate leaving things unfinished, hope I can find the needle soon.

I do however have several project in mind to start pretty soon but I am getting totally organise first so that I can confront any problems head on. I am really excited to get started because most of these items are for the upcoming winter.

On my to do list is and it is quite wishful thing on my part but I am going to try very hard to accomplish everything on this list:

Pattern:Fetching by Cheryl Niamath

Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes

Pattern: Cobblestone Pullover by Jared Flood
Yarn: New Lanark Donegal Silk Tweed

Pattern:Hemlock Ring Blanket by Jared Flood

Yarn: Cascade 220 Wool

Pattern:Little Girl's Dressy Coat # 254 by Diane Soucy

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft

Pattern:Winter Set for a Toddler by Louise Venables

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft

Pattern:Mary Jane Slippers by Whitney Van Nes
Yarn:Cascade 220 Wool

Pattern:Peekaboo by Pensive frog designs

Yarn: Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted

And these are not all I have alot of catching up to do with what I want to accomplish with my knitting so I am aiming big and shooting for the stars. So wish me luck. As I cast on each project and I am going to be CO each one simultaneously I hope, so my first step is to print all patterns which I will be doing this week and then the swatching begins. When I first started knitting I would only knit things that where small and that I considered easy and I was stuck in the mentality for quite sometime but I am trying to get out of that kind of thinking so I started the Palindrome scarf which to me at the time seemed difficult (by the way so easy) and the the Pinwheel Blankets (again so easy) so by the time I got to my Unoriginal hat cables where not as scary as before. And I have found that I rather like Cables. I think the other big things that scare the heck out of me are large garments and lace and the is where two of the projects on my to do list comes in. Anyway I am really excited about getting started and will be posting about my journey as I go through my list which as I finish one Item I will be adding another.

So Here are some pics of a few of my FO's and the first Pinwheel blanket as it stands now with over 1000 sts.

Have a great day!!Bye

Another one for the babies

Here is another hat for the Save the Children Appeal!!!That's all for now see ya!

More Hats!!!!

Hi everyone how's it going?
This is just a quick post to show my latest 3 hats for the Save the Children appeal. I am a bit busy now so will hear you guys later. Bye

Lost my Mojo......and looking for it.....

Buenos Noches everyone!

What's up with you?

Well it's been a while since I have posted or knitted anything, I don't know I just seem to have lost my "MOJO" Some days I just don't feel like doing anything I know it sounds like I am being lazy, but that's not it honestly:- I can't seem to bring myself to even get up some mornings. and most mornings I awake with a serious migraine and to top it all off I am feeling depressed totally depressed. It's been 4 months count em 4 that I have not been hugged, kissed or felt the touch of my Boobear (pet name for hubby),Yes I have not seen my husband in 4 months some people would say that is no time but for me it seems like eternity and it is really hard if I knew it would have been like this I wouldn't have made the decision to leave him, but it was a sacrifice that had to be made, but that doesn't make it any easier. I am really praying that everything gets sorted out soon so that I can leave this tropical paradise and return to the very unpredictable weather of England. I miss him so much just a little bit more than I miss not having any real yarn to knit with while I am here. I have so many projects I want to get started, but in all seriousness I feel like I have lost an arm or leg I feel helpless without him, someone reading this will have a difference in opinion to mine I believe that my boo is my soul mate and that God created him just for me he is the most caring, gentle, forgiving, loving, kind, considerate, trusting man I have ever known and he makes me feel so special and cared for I feel like the only other person in my life who can love me and care for me as much as he does is the almighty father.And I believe in this world where everything is so materialistic that when we find someone or something special that makes our heart truly beat and causes the blood that flows thro our veins to do a double take we should treasure them or it with our hearts, and I have found two such loves God and my boo bear.

A little knitting talk! What's on your needles?

Well I'll tell you whats on mine "hats" and more "hats". Do I sound excited? well I am "very" this is the fist thing in months that has made me feel so good about myself. I recently became involved in Save The Children Africa Project. And this is my first time knitting for charity and it feels sooooooooo good I feel energized and ready to knit for the fist time in weeks. So far I have 4 hats my target is 20 hats. I hope that those who read my blog will decide to help save these innocent lives, you don't have to live in the UK to be apart of it you just have to be willing. Honestly my choices of yarn to use for these little hats are very limited right now as the only yarn that is sold here is Red Heart Super saver and I think that is way to harsh for a babies head or any apart of them. So I have to try to see if I can get my hands on some worsted or Dk weight yarn to get more hats done I did receive some yarn from a very kind Sandy a little while ago but most of it I can't use because of the color apparently in Africa white symbolises death and most of the yarn she sent me was mostly white are had a white background so I need to find some relatively cheap washable yarn aka (acrylics) online that will ship to Barbados anyone knows of any drop me a line I hope I can find them soon because I am excited to get these hats done.

Here are 3 of the finished ones I have done so far just a basic rolled brim with a I-cord top and a 2x2 rib with a little and I mean little stranding and a basic 1x1 rib with stripes.
Well have a good one later!!!!!

"Big girl panties" and Entrelac progress

Well I am feeling quite proud of myself right about now, I have made some progress on my Entrelac practice square. I have done the color change to the second color and getting ready to change back to the first color. So I give myself a round of applause. I really am a big chicken, when it comes to trying new things in knitting that is why I joined this Kal. But at the start of March when it was said we where doing Entrelac and I found out what it was I was actually thinking of dropping out. Yeah I am that much of a chicken but now as I sit here recovering from a nasty migraine I feel so good, even thought it is a small accomplishment I feel like I have done something HUGE.

A few weeks ago a friend sent me an email with a picture of a woman posing with lots of attitude ans the words were written next to her "Put on your big girl panties and deal with it" well I am a big girl so I have decided this will be my motto when it comes to my knitting so every time I feel like giving up I will recite this.

Here are a few progress shots of my journey to Entrelac they are a few errors when I picked up my sts so when I am doing the real square I wouldn't repeat those errors.





Have a good Night!!

Kayla's Blanket

My lastest WIP Pinwheel Baby Blanket for my niece Kayla. The beginning was a little tuff but I found some very helpful tips on Ravelry which got me on my way. I am loving it so far it is knitting up pretty quickly considering I am a very slow knitter. And the pattern is very easy to remember so I don't have to walk around with a pattern it's all in my head. I will post more pics as it grows.
Stayed tune!
On another note I will be having a Valentine competiton here on my blog I will post the details on Valentine's day please feel free to enter or just post you comments.

Thats all for now I need to get back to my blanket it is very addictive this definitely will not be the last one I knit.

Something from nothing!

After my behaviour in my previous post I didn't expect to be back here so soon but god id good. I was searching through my closet and found some very small pieces of yarn that had been left over from something else. The colors not so sure how their would look together and maybe no one except me would put together but desperate times calls for desperate measures. So I took up my needles and cast on. I casted on 100 sts and just started knitting in the round I did not have clue was I was knitting but I just knew I was knitting and it felt great!.
Being as it was small amounts of each I decided to switch yarns and try to create some sort of harmony with the colors. At this stage I am knitting away and still don't know what it would be if anything at all.
Sometime during the day I had to go to the market. It was really cold so decided to layer up really good but somehow in the process of ensuring my body was not cold I forgot about my head my head was freezing but what could I do I was already in the market so i told myself as soon as i got home i would try to find a nice hat pattern for myself that maybe I could use my scrap yarn for. So I came home and went straight onto the computer and started looking for hat patterns I didn't see anything that would work so I decided to Google head warmers and up came this "snood" was not sure what it was until I saw a picture I was over the moon it was just a tube that acted like a hood and scarf in one and all I had to do was continue adding length to my piece and voila I would have a cover for my head.

So I proved to myself that even when i am down God is always up yo something and thought the colors may not look so hot together as least my head will be warm!

Here's some pics at different intervals in the journey of the SNOOD.





It will be finish by tonite so I'll get to post a FO pic and me wearing it.

As promised pictures!!!

OK so I finally got my pics uploaded Yeahhhhh!!!

This one is shot of the shaping on the top of the hat which I like so I took a pic of it so there!I guess I am like a mother to every mother their baby is beautiful and special, well to me my hat; yes including the shaping is beautiful and special too.

The finished hat fuzz and all.

Well I mean you can't have a hat with no scarf come on! It make look funny but trust me it feels like i am wearing a cloud around my neck so soft and warm uuummmm!!!

And these obviously are my finished mittens. I mean what else could they be?

And my first effort to knit a sock this was at the beginning, I know it's not much to look at now but Rome wasn't built in a day. More pics of sock to come later, I will keep you guessing for a little while whether or not I got through with the heel I'll give you a hint the answer starts with Y. (laugh)

My finished hat and first mitten OTN!!!!!!

I have finished my hat. One needle freed up to do more knitting.

The Inside out chemo cap

New OTN Mittens Yeah for me!!

Believe it or not I have started my very first pair of mittens YEAHHH!!!! I don't have dpns I had a set, but i only realize after moving I left one back in Barbados and I am finding it so hard to find dpns here especially any sizes above 3.75mm. so i had to use this 2 needle one, which I pray comes out OK because my hands are freezing. I didn't think I could do it but when I got started it knits up quite quickly and quite nicely I would say. Working on the thumb in this pic.

Well I have taken up a new craft but can't say more just in case my swappee is watching my blog, you never know what he/she may be up to. I'll give you a hint I have to use my "hands" (laugh).

My first monster pieces...

I believe that even Leonardo Da Vinci , Picasso,or Vincent Van Gogh had to have started they careers with a few paintings that only them could call master piece, so it's with that in mind I show you what I call my first master pieces:-here goes

One of my first objects was this bag it didn't start out as a bag it just started as me practising my garter stitch but I got bored and BO and decided to sew it up and add handles, at this point I didn't know anything about blocking or finishing.

Then came these objects my first hat and first attempt at ribbing.

Then followed by my first st st object I rather like this bag and believe it or not I couldn't even handle yarn efficiently as yet and I went and did this in raffia I would say I was quite brave.

I bought this denim jacket and decided I wanted to jazz it up so I bought some lion brand fun fur and decided to add this collar and cuffs. This was a bit difficult at first as I had never tried this fuzzy stuff before but in the end I think I ended up with a little doozy of a jacket.

This bag was my experiment with larger needles I think US size 15 I think .

Trying to step outside my comfort level with this seed stitch border and booties, these I gave as a gift to a friend and although they were not quite perfect she loved them.

This beanie style hat I did for my partner I was rather proud of this one I didn't even frog once yeah !!!!

This next project is a doozy my first time knitting in the round on dpns and to think I had been seaming all my other stuff someone should have told me about knitting in the round every since I loooove it. This hat was done in the colors of my National Flag.I may never wear it but I feel really good about myself for my first attempt. Bravo to me....

Those are all I have taken photos of so far but I will post the others soon.

Currently I have OTN a few scarves and The Inside Out Knit Chemo Cap I am really trying to finish before summer has ended because I really would like to start on my my very first cardigan or pullover and gloves.

Wish me luck.