Shopping

Some months ago, October to be precise, I headed off early one Sunday morning to beat the crowds at the Bakewell Wool Gathering. And of course you have to buy - it would be rude not to - so here is purchase 1 of 3. Some beautiful wool/silk in 'my' colours. This was bought to knit a scarf which is finished and has been worn - photo of that to follow in another post.
I also bumped into some friends there, which was an added bonus and lovely to catch up with them.

Ta-Dah - Santa

I made this Father Christmas at a workshop at Buttons and Bows in Belper (sadly closed now) well over a year ago, but didn't quite finish it. I decided the sack was too plain and I wanted to put something on it like holly perhaps. In the end when I had some holiday from work to watch Wimbledon, I managed to finish it by adding a cross-stitch snowman to the sack - the sack fabric was ideal for doing cross-stitch.

Twiddlemitts - 3

Here is a Twiddlemitt before it is double-layered. Finished knitted length and stitched down the long side. Then it is pulled back into the tube to halve the length before stitching the ends together and decorating.

Twiddlemitts - 2

Here is another twiddlemitt. It might not be obvious from the picture but it is a double layered knitted tube and includes bits inside the tube to twiddle with as well as outside. This one I think had a pom-pom inside and would definitely have had a button or two on the inside. Just visible at the top is a bow - probably from an old cracker - you know, the sort of thing crafty types keep - just in case it has a use - well, yes they do - on twiddlemitts!

Twiddlemitts - 1

Quite some time ago now a friend told our knitting group about Twiddlemitts. These are given to dementia patients to use/play with as a means of occupying their hands and relaxing them. I am not really sure of all the benefits - there are probably much better websites out there that explaining that but the only real criteria we had was to attach items to the mitts that can be fiddled with.
I made a number of these last year, and dutifully photographed all/most of them but then seemed to forget my password for my gmail account and hence no blog postings for months.
So today as I was soooooo bored I decided to see if I could resurrect my account and lo and behold within minutes of trying 4 combinations of a password, I was in - so what were all the problems last year -the only excuse I can offer must be age!
So above the first of a series of twiddlemitts that were long since delivered.