Sad 'n sweet September

I didn't do alot of blogging in September, but alot happened!

Firstly, we found out that my puppy is very very sick. I say puppy, but he's really 13, and has had a very good life. We are happy that he continues to be with us, two weeks longer than expected, but its still sad news. We are making the most of lots of cuddles...

There was also some good news - not much I can talk about right now though, but I had a nice weekend away with my mum - lots of shopping, gave the credit card a good workout! There are a few photos here on Flickr if you're interested (the ones marked September) - mainly of the botanical gardens we went to, they have different theme gardens like Indian and English, and the flowers everywhere were amazing.

I have also got lots of knitting done. It was my boss's birthday, and I whipped up a quick soap sack for her, with a little starfish embroidery. Its made from cotton, with soap inside, so you can lather it and use it that way. I want to make one for me now!

I also made another couple of cherry-comb hats - one in pink and one in brown, to match scarves I have.

As I still have a couple of balls of this pink and original red yarn, a friend suggested to me that I make up kits with the pattern and a ball of the yarn to sell in my store. What do you think?

Speaking of my store, its still there - I now have stock up at Etsy as well as ArtFire, and a couple of things on TradeMe if you're in NZ. I'll be putting the rainbow shawl and knitted bag I made a couple of months ago, up on my web site as soon as the weather cheers up and I can take some decent photos!

~Happy knitting!~

FO: Cherry-comb beret

This is my latest finished project. I call it Cherry-comb - because the colour is cherry and the pattern is like honeycomb! Original, I know.

This was borne out of a need to have a beret. Verity is still in the wings, but I still haven't uncovered that second skein of yarn, so its still on hold. Rooting through my stash I came across this 10ply NZ kid mohair which I thought would make a nice warm hat. After hunting through some patterns, I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I just kinda made this up. Its a simple pattern - the lace is just YO,k2tog (it was hard to k2tog with this yarn, let me tell you!) and then some decreases once I thought it was long enough. I suppose it could have been a little longer, but you don't realise this until its too late of course.

It took about 4-5 hours of solid knitting to get this one done, but spread over a few days with a few rows here and there. It's going to get a matching scarf as well this weekend! I see many more of these in my future - this one only took about half a ball of the yarn, and I have three more balls in this colour, as well as three and a half in candy-floss pink.

~Happy knitting!~