For the Age of Ultron movie to be released, I went and knit for me:
Cat Hulk!
Something simple for Monday. Its the cat version of Hulk, and the fifth knitted Catvenger!
Thats all for now – just a quickie post. No news, as it was just work today, and no wool count as I haven’t finished or gained any balls of wool since yesterday.
Till tomorrow!
For the Age of Ultron movie to be released, I went and knit for me:
Cat Widow!
(Black Widow from the Avengers)
And…
Cat Eye!
(Hawk Eye from the Avengers)
Cat Eye tummy shot!
So thats four done, five to go! This pair were the easiest so far – knit entirely in black with a few details sewn into their wooly bodies, or in the case of Cat Widows hair, a latch hook…
News for today? Not a lot again, some of my family was this way so I met them for lunch and caught up on all the current gossip. Did use up a ball of wool though!
Wool Count down:
Starting total (28Feb15) – 747 balls
Extra stash found – 10 balls (so far)
Wool used – 33 (Yeah!)
Wool given – 3
Wool bought – 1
Total – 728
Check in tomorrow and see who gets made on the fourth day of waiting!
For the Age of Ultron movie to be released, I went and knit for me:
Phil Pawson!
Ok, its Phil Coulson from The Avengers and Agents of Shield.
But as a cat!
And here he is hanging with his boss, Nick Furry!
Second kitty from that T-shirt of Engels, and not only does he think they’re awesome, Felix is having a ball with them as well. They happen to be the perfect size and weight for her to launch across the room…
Nothing to report really since yesterday – the weather here has been lovely, so I took Felix to feed the ducks. Actually, I have a story to tell about that.
Felix: Duck! Duck!
Me: Yes, ducks! Lots of ducks!
Felix: Nom Nom!
Me: Yes, you’re feeding the ducks, the ducks are going nom nom.
Felix: No! Ducks Nom Nom. Ducks Yum Yum!
Shes definitely mine and Engels daughter.
Enough cute kiddy stories, wool count! Managed to use one ball today so…
Wool Count down:
Starting total (28Feb15) – 747 balls
Extra stash found – 10 balls (so far)
Wool used – 32 (Yeah!)
Wool given – 3
Wool bought – 1
Total – 729
Check in tomorrow and see who gets made on the third day of waiting!
For the Age of Ultron movie to be released, I went and knit for me:
Nick Furry!
Ok, its Nick Fury from the Avengers, as a cat (Catvengers!)
Isn’t he cute with his little eye patch?
Engel received a Catvengers t-shirt ages ago, and its something he kept asking for. So he’s getting the set. Thats only 9 kitties…
Onto actual news, been a manic fortnight (hence the lack of a post last weekend) but its all work stuff an then catching up on chores and family time.
But you’re all more interested in the wool stash, right? 5 used this fortnight, and I may have ‘accidentally’ bought one…
Wool Count down:
Starting total (28Feb15) – 747 balls
Extra stash found – 10 balls (so far)
Wool used – 31 (Yeah!)
Wool given – 3
Wool bought – 1
Total – 730
Mission Objective complete.
Final package dropped off in Liverpool.
Business concluded.
Engel had far too much fun with the insinuations of this ‘business’ and ‘package’. On Friday I had, in fact, dropped off the last of my largest commission undertaken. A friend is getting married soon and, instead of flowers, she wanted a knitted bear and liger on each table, each toy being about a foot long. For eight tables.
I’ll admit I was a tiny bit tired of this by the eight pair!
But, none the less, here are the little guys:
The bear is based on ‘Brown Bear’ by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne from ‘Knit your own zoo’
And the Liger is based on ‘Tabby Cat Prowling’ by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne from ‘Best in show: Knit your own cat’
As an amusing aside, I originally decided to knit the bears out of a fuzzy wool, and using the pattern ‘Grizzly Bear’ by Kath Dalmeny from ‘Knitted World of Toys’
Lets just say fuzzy wool isn’t so good at holding its shape. At all.
I did get a cute guinea pig though!
Not much else to say other than a pleasant Easter was had by all. Oh, and lastly, 2 balls of wool this week.
Wool Count down:
Starting total (28Feb15) – 747 balls
Extra stash found – 10 balls (so far)
Wool used – 26 (Yeah!)
Wool given – 3
Total – 734
In knitting terms, its Easter – always have to start these things early!
So, what have I been making for Easter?
Cute, aren’t they? Also, super simple. Its a free online pattern by Lebinslustiger.
Essentially you knit a square, do some crafty sewing, add a pom pom and voila! Adorable bunny! I’ve knitted a bunch of squares and taken them to work, asking if people want a knitted Easter bunny, with a little twist – they do the sewing themselves.
It worries me how many people simply go ‘I cant do that’ and honestly believe they cant. Ok, only one of the ‘bunnies’ made at work looks like mine above, but they do all look like rabbits!
Slightly misshapen, lumpy rabbits, but rabbits!
Have a few more (hilarious) lunches to go and see how many more people I can convince to try…
My other Easter like knit?
This cutie. Another free pattern, this one by LionBrand.
Felix got an Ikea barnyard with animals. Its adorable, but it didn’t have a sheep! I couldn’t have that, so this little guy is now with the rest of her set. Hmm. What other animals should she have?
This week I used just the one ball, I’ve been distracted sewing bunnies. I was also kindly given three balls! I love getting wool as a gift, especially when its random, ‘saw this and thought of you’ gifts. Full wool count summary below!
Wool Count down:
Starting total (28Feb15) – 747 balls
Extra stash found – 10 balls (so far)
Wool used – 24 (Yeah!)
Wool given – 3
Total – 736
Anyone remember this? Was my header for the very first incarnation of the foxymitts website, when it was on blogspot nearly nine years ago!
Was beginning the painfully slow process of updating my Ravelry account, and procrastinated by browsing through the old project photos and found this one. Realised I’d never posted the pattern online before either!
So thats been rectified – you can find it in the free patterns section!
Onto other news, how did I use so much wool last week? By knitting these:
Pom Pom cuddle blanket
Its a Free Ravelry Download by Lindsay Oliver. Its super sweet and super quick! Which is good, as I made two. Then two half versions (so triangles) as impromptu gifts. Well received ones mind!
Just a short post today, Felix is trying to shove an Octonaut into my ear as I type!
Oh, wool count, 737 is now 734!
Technically its tomorrow, but I wont be on the computer at all then, so now’s the time for a quick post.
To start, this will be my own second mothers day. Having Felix has certainly changed things! Don’t quite have the time to make as much as I used to, but its worth it.
Anyhow, I’m going to get all mushy if I go on, so I thought I’d show a previous knit I’ve made on a previous mothers day! This is for Engels mum.
Mothers day panda
Its the Giant Panda pattern from Knitted Wild Animals by Sarah Keen. A book I’ve actually used a lot – though the vast majority of the creations are nabbed so quick there aren’t any photos!
Oh, and since we’re looking at pandas:
Micro panda!
From Alan Darts Advent Tree pattern book – this is actually a modified polar bear. Its amazing how much you can change a pattern just with a few colour tweaks!
Lastly, not mothers day presents technically, but something which is purely my mum: Pineapples!
Pineapples!!!!
So the big one on the left is the Pine Apple Bag by Isabel Gancedo (free, just click on the link), to the right, a tweaked, smaller version of the same pattern and at the bottom, Fruit Bookmarks – Pineapple by Amalia Samios (another free one!).
I’ll end my post there, Happy mothers day to everyone out there – be your little one a small child, a grown up now, or a cute pet!
Oh, and importantly, my wool count! This week I’ve used a massive 15 balls of wool! So the previous weeks total of 752 is now…737! Yeah! If only my whole wool collection consisted of 50g balls, those 500g ones I have aren’t going to go anywhere near as fast…
Tunip!
Or perhaps, my life has been taken over by the Octonauts?
As you may have guessed from that line alone, Felix has taken to watching (and demanding) the Octonauts whenever we put on the TV for her – though she does this by pointing and declaring ‘Oct-Octs!’ Though she did manage ‘Octagon!’ the other day…
Anyhow! I digress. Watching her play with her little plastic Octonaut toys (blame Engel, he’s obsessed as she is) and I realized that she needed a cuddly version of them. Some pattern hunting later and I turned up no knitting patterns, so I made my own!
Well, started with Tunip, may make more if this proves popular with her. Either the rest of the Vegimals or the Octonaut crew…
Go ahead and have a look, make some yourselves and put them on Ravelry and let me watch the vegimal army grow!
I think I may need some sleep now…
Lastly, apologies for the camera phone photo, I still haven’t found that camera yet. Sigh.
Oh, and wool update! Since Feb 28 I have used 5 balls of wool. I also found 10 hiding away. So grand total is…752!
I feel cheated – all that hard knitting and its gone up by five!
Aperture science, you do what you must because you can…
AS issued hot water bottle cosie anyone?
Or maybe you’re own turret?
But no one can say no to cake right?
And everyone needs a companion cube.
For those interested, generic hot water bottle cosie pattern with the Aperture Science logo worked into it via intersia. A little turret I created purely by just winging it. The legs are reinforced with wire ad green stuff. Cake was winged too, as was the Companion Cube, but I actually wrote the pattern for that one – you can find it in the free patterns section!
Anyhow!
Sorry for the huge hiatus (and all the photos are of old projects), between Felix’s first birthday, secret christmas knitting, starting a new job, travelling up north for a bit and back again, I’ve not had much time to go online.
That and I lost my camera somewhere along the way. So all the cool stuff I’ve been working on? No photos.
And knitting blog posts without photos are really rather dull and pointless.
This however, is one of those, but apart from the old knitting projects of mine as a bit of a compromise (at least they’re not posted here already), it has one juicy bit of info! I finally counted my wool – I received some as presents and acquired a few stashes, so was really dreading it, but after some serious stash busting (later post when I find my camera) I decided to take the risk and count.
There was only 747 balls of wool, not as bad as I feared!
But still, 747 balls of wool is a little on the large side. Ok. A lot on the large side seeing as it’s mostly providing insulation in my conservatory…
So for the next while I’m going to keep a running record on the coming and going of my wool stash – hopefully doing this publicly will guilt me out of buying ‘just one more ball/pack/colour lot…’
It should also encourage more posts and a better record of what I’ve been making – my Ravelry account is terribly behind!