Hello! I’ve finished a few new things over the past few days…
First up, a new ivory blouse for myself. This is the new Fibremood Georgie blouse, and it’s quite an interesting design and construction technique that I haven’t really come across before, namely a series of very deep pleats in the neckline and sleeves. These are bound down with a narrow bias strip. The raglan sleeves also have deep pleats going into those cuffs.
If I was going to be picky I think I would have chosen to cut the cuffed sleeves a little longer, and it’s also quite a short blouse overall. However I do really like the finished blouse.
I found a short length of ivory muslin in my stash, which was lucky! because it was perfect for the floaty style of this blouse; and for the buttons I went with some fun bee buttons, also from the stash. Aren’t they cute?!
I’m wearing them here with my Closet Core patterns Sasha trousers and my clogs made using a kit from Leather Needle Thread. I really should make some new trousers; I don’t really have that many, and those that I do have are mostly quite old by now.
I also finished up my April knitting project, again in the knick of time! I literally cast this off about half an hour ago and took these extremely quick and slightly dodgy pictures, but at least I got it done within the month! I’ll take some better pictures when the weather is suitably colder and post them in here later.
It’s a very simple neck warmer, made using a very bobbly pink/apricot yarn from the very large stash I inherited from Mum when she did her cleanup. I had plans for something a bit more interesting; however when I was in Japan I didn’t have the time to knit on the trains that I thought I would. I came home having achieved basically no knitting at all, and had to whip up something in the small amount of time I’ve had since we returned. I’m going to try to be more organised in May and produce something a bit more exciting.
Speaking of; tomorrow me-made May begins again! I will be joining in once again, but only on instagram this year and maybe on my TikTok account, if I feel like it. Haha, gone are the days we used to document it all on our blogs, or over on Flickr! Feels like forever ago now. I will likely do a roundup here at the end of the month.
Hello! I’m back wth my March knitting project; this one is of course a cardigan for my oldest grandson Arthur…
Hello! I’ve finished making a few new things, both from deep deep stash. I can’t stress enough how happy it makes me feel to be methodically using up ye olde stash! I feel so virtuous. Particularly since such a lot of it was not even bought by me in the first place, but foisted upon me – and I must say here that I truly do appreciate everything that has been given to me, many many pieces have proved to be very lovely and beautiful quality, and very useful too when it comes to testing patterns and new designs! It is also true though that I am at a stage in my life when I want to whittle it down, for good. I have dreams of a more minimalist future, and I’m determined to see it through.
The fabric is a quite nice, soft-pumpkin silk crepe, very lightweight and floaty, almost translucent. I’m definitely going to be wearing this with a slip, I think.
Item 2! a little knitted jacket and beanie set for Cassie’s new baby… the last time I went down to stay with my parents I bought this little pattern pamphlet from a yarn and quilting shop in Bridgetown; Naturally Yarns K679. I wanted to get something for the baby, and also to support a local business, but honestly felt very conflicted about buying a finished something when I SHOULD be using up my own supplies…. anyway I did achieve kind of both.
Finally, item 3; and this is sadly not from my own stash, but from Cassie’s. I volunteered to make up one of the fabrics she had bought for her summer/autumn breast-feeding friendly wardrobe. What else to make but one of our own Yallingup designs?! We both believe in this design so thoroughly and it’s a little sad that it has not been as popular as we were hoping. I wonder if it’s not clear that the regular, and the breast-feeding friendly version are actually separate designs, even though they look the same from the outside?
The pattern is Ghost Horses by Boyland knit works… I bought it through 
I bought the yarn from Morris and Sons in Melbourne, during our Harry Potter excursion over there, last March. Actually, March 2022, hehe; so embarrassed to admit that. I actually started knitting it straight away and got it to final ribbing stage within a few months. Then took like forever to decide on the finishing bands. I didn’t really like the slightly tight look of the finishing bands on the pattern envelope sample and tried multiple variations ie various k/P ribbing combos, stocking stitch, double yarn etc before finally settling on … well, these ones. Mine is same needle size as body, single yarn, 2K 2P rib, very loosely finished.
I made a new underwear set… all from scraps and leftovers! this kind of project is super fun for me, mostly because it is so crazy and silly.
Oh hey! I’ve just finished knitting a new jumper. Perfectly fluffy and perfectly relaxed and slouchy, the most wonderfully comfortable lounge-able thing you can imagine. This is the 
