Final Bakewell Purchase

This was the last item I bought at the Bakewell Wool Gathering - cute little fruit stitch markers - if I use them does that count as part of my 5 a day? Or is it 10 now - good grief! Not sure whether to keep these myself yet - I have some plain ones but they fall off the needles - or whether to gift them to some knitter. Decisions, decisions.
Need to download more photos before I can update the blog again. Not sure how many I have in the camera but certainly made some progress on projects this year :-)

Another Purchase

This was another purchase from the Bakewell Wool Gathering. It is alpaca wool and purchased from the lady who rears them. She learnt to crochet so she could make use of the yarn. With my beginner crochet skills at the time (miles of chain) she said that I could make a scarf purely from chain stitch, so based on that I purchased this wool. Still not started :-(
Looking at the stash of unstarted projects upstairs I really must stop buying stuff!

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.