Springtime Woollies♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ A quick post from moi (thank the Good Lord for that, I hear you say) before I fall into bed. 'Tis late Sunday night here and I'm ready to curl up under a few quilts and drift off to the Land of Nod. Why, I do believe one of my favourite times of the day is bedtime. I love my bed. And, I love my sleep.

And what pretty makes have I been working on this week?? Well......I finished machine stitching my little 6" squares for the Christmas Fusion quilt. Yep, each fabric square is stitched together. Throughout the week I blanket stitched around some more squares and continued crocheting around the squares. 

I've also started to knit a wee jumper for wee Lenox. After all Old Man Winter and his sidekick Jack Frost will be visiting his little world soon. This jumper is a jumble of lots of colours which I wouldn't ordinarily use all together. I bought lots of different wool colours for another jumper I wanted to knit. It was a colourwork jumper with a few critters as the stars. A fox, a deer, a bear, a rabbit, a hedgehog....and a penguin, if my memory serves me correctly. But, as I knitted along I didn't like what was before me. The knitting was very uneven and untidy and oh my goodness, what a horribly, tangled mess the yarns became. Oh, what a tangled mess I weaved!! As I knitted, ever-patient Pete would all too frequently untangle the yarns as I knitted but I decided enough was enough. I mean, Lenox would be a teenager before his jumper would've been finished! I don't know why it was all a bit of a chore as this wasn't the first colourwork garment I've knitted.

When I was a young slip of a girl knitting colourwork garments were my favourite to knit, but now......perhaps not. At least not one with tiny critters smiling around the jumper and a plethora of messy knitted and knotted strands of wool. So, I'm now knitting a simple, garter stitch jumper in all of the colours. Oh......but all the loose strands to be sewn in at the seams!! This jumper is a bit of an experiment, though. I'll have to wait till it's finished to see whether I'm enamoured with it or not. But I must say I'm loving the muddly mess of colours. Also, I'm loving the wrong side better. So, the wrong side is now the right side. Not that there's a 'wrong' side of garter stitch, I suppose. I like the muddier rows to the neat even rows. =)

I've been knitting throughout the day watching the roving,  black and white bovine in the paddock, and the colours of spring outside the window. Though I must say 'twas anything but spring-like today. 'Twas the perfect day for a little knitting.  Perhaps Lady Spring will make an appearance tomorrow. And with that thought, lovely lovelies, lovely friends, 'tis goodnight from my little place♡ 

Until the next time......