A Wee Woolly Finish♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ I hope you are sparking sprinkles of joy in your little corner of the world. Admittedly, to find joy in this sad world can be difficult to find these days but let us try, shall we??

Lady Spring is sprinkling joy into my days. It has been a slow start to Spring, with the weather just beginning to warm up but the garden has awakened with the sculptural, bare trees of winter blossoming en masse. Metres tall trees with blossoms, blossoms, blossoms everywhere but with the wind gusts of unpredictable spring, those blossom-filled trees are but now a carpet of fallen petals. Still pretty, though.

Wee Lenox's woolly jumper is finished. I remember when you last visited I wasn't sure how the jumble of colours would work in a cohesive way but I must say I'm loving all the colours dancing together. My experiment of throwing oodles of colours together looks rather spiffy, I think. Oh, and all those scraggly woolly ends which had to be weaved in weren't as much of a chore as I thought. Sometimes, it's head down and royal proverbial up, and just do it, isn't it??  I decided to knit a cable strip and sew it to the bottom adding a bit of oomph. The blue of the cable strip and the ribbing for the sleeves set off the plethora of colours fabulously. But then, blue has a way of making everything look better. Says the lady whose favourite hue is blue. =)

Another wee woolly finished. I'll give it to Lenox in a couple of weeks; that is of course if I can prise it from Teddy's paws. =) Wee Lennox and his mummy and daddy, and sweet Riley and her mummy and daddy......and Granny and Poppy, too, will all be together in one place at the same time holidaying by the beach. Oodles of fun! Oodles of snuggles and cuddles! So, so excited!

Time for another knitted woolly to go on the needles but first, I must finish the  Christmas fusion quilt I'm stitching. I'll blanket stitch and crochet around some more squares today for Slow Sunday Sunday. There's only a few more squares left to do before I begin to join all the pretties together. I had better get a move on though, because it won't be long until I espy the benevolent old fella's shiny, black boots dangling from the chimney. 

May you in your little corner of the world, and may I in mine, sprinkle a little joy and kindness today♡ Some flowers for thee?? 'Tis irises and granny bonnets dancing in the garden at the moment♡ Flowers bring me joy♡ You, lovely lovelies, bring me joy♡   May sprinkles of joy find you this lovely day♡ 

Until the next time......

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......

When I woke up this morning........♪♪♬♫

 

Hello, lovely lovelies♡ I woke up this morning......and you were on my mind  ♪♪♬♪♬♫  Just channelling Crispian St Peters. =) Though, I really have been waking up in the mornings and thinking of some of you, of late♡ I hope you are travelling okay,  all things considered; living in this alternate universe we find ourselves♡

Here in my little universe, within the safe cocoon of my humble home, sheltered from the ails of this sorry world; and where the summery garden embraces me every day, I've been fashioning more flower baskets. I was a wee bit excited on Friday as I thought there were enough flower baskets for the quilt and the piecing of rows could begin. But. Alas. No. It seems more are needed. Now, if this girl's muddly head wasn't more often than not, lost in dem arty farty textile clouds, twirling and whirling around all things fabric, ribbons, flowers and baskets, she would've realised the layout she imagined was just not  going to work. So, with both feet once again on terra firma, and with a new layout decided upon, the appliqueing of new baskets is under way. Though I'm loving all these pretty baskets, the appliqueing of the baskets is wearing a bit thin....just a tad. So, perhaps next week there may be a Flower Baskets flimsy to ooh and ahh....and wax lyrical about. 

One of these things is not like the other...

One of  these things just doesn't belong......

Ahh.....Sesame Street. I used to sing 'One of these Things' with my girls when they were little. Precious memories of watching Sesame Street with my girls, with each day following the fun and educational antics of Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, The Cookie Monster......Maria.......Bob.....and all the gang. Those were the days♡

This week I started knitting a wee baby cardie. A cable pretty in Patons Merino 4ply baby wool. The colour is a soft grey, and 'tis lovely and soft.

As it's Sunday I will enjoy a little knitting. Clickety clack, clickety clack of the needles, rhythmically knitting back and forth in a relaxed fashion; sipping a cup of Melbourne Breakfast tea, in a pretty teacup; of course. Perhaps, I will hand stitch a few more baskets, too. 

Sending you, lovely lovelies, sprinkles of heavenly scented sweet peas and rose petals; with a little Tassie sunshine to kiss you on the cheek♡ Take care, lovely lovelies♡

 

Until the next time......

And The Fabric Goes To..........

Hello lovely lovelies♡ Top of the morning to you♡ A lovely welcome to you, this autumnal, Sunday morning ♡

There's a winner for my colour-filled, flowery fabric squares. A small gift from me to one of you,  lovely lovelies♡Thank you all for your beautiful words re my blogging anniversary♡ Each one of you sprinkled many a smile into my day♡ My Pete pulled out a name from the hat and.......Maggie, it seems the fabric squares will find a home with you. That's a wee bit exciting. So, if you can email me your postal address, I will pop these pretties in the post sometime this week to fly over land and sea, to you. How fun to think a collection of my fabrics will be fashioned into something beautiful, in another part of the world. Lovely Maggie, I wonder what you will fashion from these pretties?? Just look at all those joyous fabrics! Makes my heart sing! Oh......and the flowers do, too! =)

I've been playing with a few pretties this last little while. Riley's woolly makes are finished. A knitted jumper and a crochet  vest. I stitched a cute Tilda bunny, too, to be sent with the woollies to Riley for Easter. Goodness, the bunny was fiddly. The pieces were so teeny tiny for my fingers to manipulate. I'm guessing, as sweet as the little bunny is, I won't be chomping at the bit to make another anytime soon. Gotta love a bunny dressed in a Liberty fabric dress, though. A teeny tiny bunny for sweet Riley's teeny tiny hands♡

Remember my flower-filled Flower Meadow flimsy?? The quilt where hexie flowers jostle for space in a vibrant swath of joyous colour?? Well, I decided to begin the hand quilting. I was going to wait until Old Man Winter descended upon my little place to quilt this quilt but what can I say.....I just wanted to fill many moments with hand quilting happy hexies. Simple quilting with stitches skipping around each hexie flower. You know me, the KISS method of quilting is the mantra I live by. =) There are a few flimsies piling up waiting to be quilted, so best not to wait to whittle down the mountainous pile. Perhaps by Spring there will be a few more finished quilts to wax lyrical about. But then.....perhaps not. I'm looking forward to cosying down in front of the open fire and enjoying a little hand quilting,  when the frigid season takes up residence.

As it is Sunday I will enjoy a little quilting of my Flower Meadow quilt later this evening and visit the slow stitching ladies over at Kathy's place. Thank you for blessing my day with your sweet visit♡ Your visits truly are a joy♡ May your day be filled with many a smile♡ Have a beautiful Sunday, lovely lovelies♡

Until the next time......