June 2015

June brought with it a moderate amount of productivity. My crafting has been seriously waylaid by some budget cuts and I'm trying to figure out a way to be a poor crafter.

Fiona Alice has so many very beautiful patterns and is so talented, I couldn't resist knitting a pattern of hers using some yarn I had in stash. The pattern is called Salt Air and is a really clever design. This scarf/cow didn't take me very long at all and it was gifted to a special teacher who is retiring this year. 

I worked on some socks I cast on last month, the yarn is from The Wacky Windmill and the colourway is Dougal, which I think is an Outlander book reference, but I honestly have read the series, so I'm not 100% sure. I am knitting the pattern Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks by Wendy D. Johnson from her book Socks from the Toe-Up.

I managed to get some spinning practice in this month and spun up a fibre dyed in a colourway called Hippy Dippy from The Wacky Windmill.

I finished a pair of stockinette socks in a self-patterning yarn, I think Regia, but I lost the ball band, so I can't be certain.

In an attempt to get better at hand piecing, I have purchased some light template plastic and cut out a number of hexagons to use in place of paper. I think I am having more luck basting the fabric around the homemade plastic hexagons over the paper I had tried previously. I'm just working these hexagons up with a bit of scrap vomit :-)

That's it - Happy crafting! Nic ♥