Finished blanket.

My little scrap blanket is all finished and I am a lot happier with it than I thought I would be.

A lot of ends to weave in, there must be another whole ball of wool here!

It's about 46 inches square, thick and warm, perfect for those cold nights that we still seem to be getting, isn't Spring supposed to be nearly here! 

The flower pattern was picked up from here at eggbird designs, aren't they just so pretty? 

 To make them slightly bigger for the blanket I just altered the petal stitches.   

Now my only problem is that my colourful wool stash has all but run out and I don't know what to have a go at next....

Stash blanket

I've been looking at my wool stash for some time wondering what to do with it and decided on a scrap blanket, but I wasn't sure whether to do a ripple, granny or what? I've got granny squares already finished in drawers and baskets around the house waiting to be put together, but I'm not really happy with them, so after some searching I finally decided on this pattern found via Flickr. Although mine will be horizontal, not vertical and square.

It's very easy and pretty quick, but even though i've got over halfway I'm not really sure about this one either. Maybe it's just me, I'm currently in the mindset that I want to make something but don't know what that something is! 

Oh and I went to see The King's Speech last night and everything that has been said about it is spot on - a must see, a great film.

An array of brooches

I've been finally getting around to finishing just some of the projects that I've started recently. First off is some brooches to hopefully sell for Christmas, all backed and ready to go.

 

 

Rhiannon has very kindly taken on the role of my project manager, sorting out an inventory, checking up on me that I have been working, sitting down on a Saturday afternoon and helping with oh lots of things and generally making me realise how much stuff I have actually made that is currently hanging around in cupboards just sitting there waiting for me to pluck up the courage to try and make a few pennies. Even better she is going to be taking everything to school for the other teachers to have a look at and hopefully buy!