So I didn't end up starting Asilomar after all, but I did start another Amy Herzog design - Arm Candy. I've actually done rather more than this but being the lazy baggage that I am, I couldn't be arsed to take another photo just yet. I'm actually more than halfway up the armholes. I haven't knitted with this wool before it I rather like it. The colourway is called Peacock, and although it just looks green in the photo it has interesting flecks of peacock blue scattered throughout. I originally bought it with the vague idea of making a sweater for Pete junior but it's really hard finding a pattern that will a) fit a skinny teenaged boy, b) aforementioned teenaged boy would actually wear, and last but not least c) I might actually enjoy knitting. So I've appropriated the wool for my Arm Candy and if and when I find such a wondrous pattern I shall just have to buy more yarn. Real hardship, huh?

 

 

 Slow progress on The Flapper, because I've mostly been knitting, but she has a face now...

Well, hello. This is my first post on my new blog, although some of you may know me from my now defunct 'Chewed Away". That was all about cross stitch though, and now, after a long dry spell, I'm starting to knit again. Oh, I've made the (very) occasional thing, but many years ago I was an avid and prolific knitter. I knitted for the children when they were little, and for myself, and relatives. But then I kind of drifted away from it. Recently though, the bug has started to bite again. And OMG, has knitting moved on! Once upon a time it was plain old Aero straights and whatever the local wool shop saw fit to stock. Now...well, lets just say that recently I've spent rather more than I should have on needles, yarn etc! Of course, I'm still cross stitching too, so I'll also be talking about that.

Right now, I'm itching to cast on Asilomar by Amy Herzog, but I'm waiting for some new needles to turn up so I can use them for it (Signature stilettos - be still, my beating heart!) and in the meantime I'm messing about making toys -

The little guy is kind of naked though - he's just waiting on his jacket -

 

 

On the stitching front, this is my start on Joan Elliott's Flapper from Cross Stitch Collection. She's on (old) Silkweaver Shadowbrook opalescent -