Two pairs of Gloves for two Birthdays

This weekend marked both my little sisters 22nd birthday and my sister in laws 24th!

i thought i would make them both some pretty gloves and i have been in love with the "Veyla" pattern for ages but never knit them.

Here are the ones i made my sister



And the ones for my sister in law

Long time no post!

Its been a whole month since my last post WOW!!!

Our modem crapped itself and took three weeks to sort out but now i am back online :)
We just bought our first house and are moving next weekend so who knows what kind of Internet issues that will cause too haha.

I haven't been up to that much crafting really as we have been busy with all the house stuff but i have a few things to share with you.

First up some gorgeous little hand warmers Ive made for the boys.

Flynn's "Hoot's"

and Ashton's "Robot's"


Sam over at Sam's Snippets has been having a little comp for her new knitting pattern so these are my two entries. Judging is tomorrow so fingers crossed!

long time no post

Yeah yeah i know I'm a slack ass :P
Busy as usual with life etc and have neglected to post for a while!
I still have been busy crafting this that and the other with more swaps rolling out the door and into the letterbox, knitting flying off the needles and felt food etc being made. I thought i would make this post a catchup post and then i will set myself some blogging goals!

First up the RED swap i participated in on Ravelry. here is the wonderful bag i received from "Redrel" over in Oz:

it came filled with chocolate, tea and cookie cutters ( all in red of course ;) )

The package i sent over the ditch is still in transit ( NEVER send my economy post) but I'm pretty sure my person would never make her way over to my blog so here is the package i put together for her:

he collects old books and i found a 1960 copy of the NZ Scout Annual in an op shop, some fair trade tea, some homemade "straw-barb" jam ( strawberry and rhubarb) and then some Blackrose socks and gloves!


i have also been busy filling a few felt food and finger puppet orders. here are some new designs i made up:

I LOVE the safari animals so think i might make a whole set of these

I also finished my Vamp swap ( 1st time Ive ever been late woops!)
I was in such a hurry to get it in the Post after i made it that i didn't have time to take good photos but here is the package all together:

A "Volturi" style hooded scarf, Volturi thirst quenchers (ingredients: unsuspecting visitors to Italy) and some blood splattered stationary i made. The scarf used over 300 grams of wool and it knit all in seed stitch so ALOT of work went into this. closeup of detail:


Here is what the pattern looks like ( care of Ysoldas photo (the designer)


I am going to try and thin of some ways to keep up with blogging so i will let you know when i decide!!! Once a day is a bit too much at the moment but maybe 2-3 times a week, will keep you posted.

Gloves for mum

My mum requested some fingerless mitts after seeing the ones i made for my sister and i.

I knitted them in natural yarn (the wool companys "oatmeal") and then dyed them with red food colouring. My test swatch came out deep red but then the glovs came out all in semisolid pinks :)

Fingerless Gloves

Finger less gloves to match the headbands :) i used This pattern

Gelato for my sis



Oasis for me