Knit Your Square to Give Your Share - PART 4

roamin_in_the_gloamin

I have been having terrific fun - designing and making these - I now have one completely finished and just have to do the ties and crochet some holly & berries for number two

Machine Knit - earflap Christmas Pudding Hat



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and this is what it looks like when you fold back the earflaps


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Off to see if I can cobble up something like a snowman earflap hat next

Mrs Moneypenny glad the hats rolled up safe and sound, look forward to hearing from you re the pattern, sizes etc

x Jean
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f1widow

Hi all sorry been lurking and now realise have missed chalky leaving so if Kathy could give her a real hug and send my love to her and hope she has a lovely holiday I would be grateful xxx

I logged on and the first thing I was greeted with was the fabulous hats by our clever Jean, Jean they are just beyond fantastic! I love the pudding in the bowl look! - SO CLEVER! xxx
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shaz - fantastic news :j:j you deserve some lovely news - will look forward tohearing all about him xxx

Hope everyone else all ok, I hope to resume normal service after the weekend and DS going back to school.
Have popped in early to do update while I remembered :

UPDATE
1x Adult Hat
2x Baby Blankets
9x Baby Hats
2x Child Hats
1x Cowl
2x Squares
2x Cardigan

Many thanks to the keepers of our spreedie for their fantastic work keeping us all updated xxx

Big hugs to all and thinking of you all xxx

PS Nearly forgot to say ginnyknit - sorry that the craft fair didn't happen but totally understand you don't want to be outside keep us updated when you do the next one xxx

Pippa.S

Very quiet in here again lately...
Weather has been lovely and warm even though at times its been dull but the sun has been lurking until afternoon then made an appearance... anything that moved here got shoved in the WM and I have been very good and ironed everything as soon as it was dry...can you see my halo :rotfl:

Jean - thats one amazing hat, you are clever
shaz - awww all those lovely cuddles, any names yet
ginny - the craft stalls sound a real good idea hope all goes well for you
psso - shame about the rain but I see you put your time to good use

I have almost finished the Tartan Throw just the edging to do now...then I must get on with my friends flower and butterfly pink/lilac blanket she wants it all done in squares so it's not too bad
Well have good evenings all Love Ax

roamin_in_the_gloamin

Oh pippa - do you want to come and sprinkle some of that WM & ironing around my place?? Nowt being done here - and even less over the weekend - DH is off in the pampervan to see some bikes tomorrow for the WHOLE weekend........ guess I will find something to keep me busy (tongue in cheek there ladies)................ hope the weather is going to be good to you at the carryAnne.............

thank you ladies for the kind things you have said about my latest daftie hat - Dear Wee Sis has already said she doesn't want a Pudding hat.... so will have to think about something suitable for her.
x

psso

Morning all.

Day off and (whisper ) the sun is shining - so far anyway.

All right for some folk over the Channel, lazy weekend indeed. Some of us will be flat out serving the tea,coffee,scones and CAKES all weekend. Ah well, got to earn a few pennies I suppose.

Jean - Love the pudding hat. Obviously your DWS doesn`t share your taste in titfers.;)

F1 - hope you feel a bit brighter soon. Is it that Edna again ? Send her packing on a long holiday, not in my direction though please.

Pippa - did you need to go for a lie down after using that hot heavy implement :rotfl:I avoid it like the plague- definitely not good for my health.

Lots of MIAs. If you are lurking pop in and let us know you are OK. (((hugs))) if you need them.

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

your christmas hat is stunning Jean

sewed two knitted handbags together yesterday to put away for craft fayre, bumped into one of the mums from school (ive known her years she had a new baby in her arms and told me shes fostering, shes asked me to knit a couple of little cardis for her how could i refuse the little one is gorgeous. so small pink cardi went on needles yesterday

hugs to all

mioliere

Jean - those hats are absolutely amazing; they were such a cheerful sight when I logged on today!

F1 - will add your totals a bit later on today. Thanks for posting them!

Pippa -call in here after you've done Jean's ironing, please!

I have just waved goodbye to the lovely Chalky and her DH after a wonderful visit from them on their way to Spain. Unfortunately, my DH had to work yesterday, but that didn't stop the rest of us from going out for a lovely lunch (their treat!) in our nearest town. We told DH all about it, and Chalky bought him a 5-pack of Bounties to make up for the fact that he had to miss it! They very kindly brought with them everything on our shopping list - thirty litres of paint, along with two huge boxes of teabags, some suet, and some malt vinegar, and Chalky gave me some lovely new wool, a beautiful fuchsia mandela that she had crocheted, and a tea towel featuring a thatched cottage village which is far too good to use for the dishes! We really enjoyed their company and are already looking forward to their next visit. Oh, and I have just bought a sewing machine from a friend who has never used it because the instruction manual is all in French, but Chalky didn't need the manual - within five minutes she had it up and running and was showing me the embroidery stitches!

Last night I did a 'raclette' for dinner; Jean will know what that is - a table top thingy with a hot granite stone top on which each guest cooks their own food; it also has little individual trays for grilling cheese under the stone. It's a lovely sociable thing to share with guests, and is so easy to do with a bit of salad and so on, along with some wine of course!

I wish them both a safe trip onwards to Spain, and a thank you for the lovely time we shared with them.

I've just found this that I thought might be useful - it's a way of making a centre-pull ball of wool with just the inner tube of a kitchen roll. It has great photos showing you how to do it. I'm going to have a go later.

http://knitswithballs.blogspot.fr/2007/07/how-to-make-center-pull-ball.html

I haven't read the thread for the last couple of days but will catch up with it later on today.

Have a great day, everyone!

KathyXX

roamin_in_the_gloamin

Glad you had a lovely visit with Chalky and her DH - I do raclette with - cheese, parma ham, garlic and rosemary roasted up new potatoes and serve with roasted veggies..... gets the neighbours wondering just where I came up with that lot from - great for heating up the room when its cold and wet and horrible outside - it brings a cheer and a warm glow!!

Off to have a look at your link for the middle yarn thingie - although I have the wool winders for the knitting machine and could I suppose use them. Oh and I must do those crochet holly leaves and berries then that gets number two Christmas hat finished...............then I can get stuck back into some seafarer hats, in between trying to cobble up my next creation 'snowman' hat
x

f1widow

Hi all hope we have all had a good day,

Kathy - thank you for telling us all about the visit with chalky, sounded lovely and the meal sounded equally as lovely, I have to say that all the travel type programmes have watched the French are very sociable eaters ?? (am I right?) (:rotfl:I know an agoraphobic who loves to see the world, my friend thinks its odd that I love watching programmes about other countries and the uk when I don't travel, Michael Palin is a real hero of mine) xx glad you now have all your goodies especially some new wool and where would a girl be without t/bags xx

roamin - mmmmmmmmm your description of the food left the mouth watering sounds delicious - err look here missus I would hope that no work is going to be done this weekend if "OH" is away playing then so should you xx

I promised ages ago the pattern for the square hat that Ive done a couple of (only mine don't end up square square more oblong...)

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/childs-square-hat-in-8ply

Its from ravelry so hopefully you will be able to see it.

Not sure what Im going to knit next, I really need to do some more adult hats to go on the pile ready to go to Hope Centre, that time of year will soon be upon us.

I wonder if chalky would like to visit to show me how to use my sewing machine, MIL gave me hers virtually new, nothing fancy, she couldn't lift it any more - its gone in the wardrobe and errrr that's it really!

Anyway Ive rambled enough - hugs and a some love to all xx

PS Don't want to let the side down but washing basket "was" empty as of this afternoon still got to iron though :eek::eek: on the plus side my MIL was amazed that DS school uniform is all done and has been for a few weeks now hee hee xxx

sock-knitter

jean, loving all the hats that you come up with, u are so talented
Kathy, the meet with chalky sounded wonderful, as did the food.
not much knitting happened this end, but I had a good excuse, spent most of the day cuddling my grandson, only giving him back to his mummy to be fed, she is doing fab at breast feeding him, and his daddy changes his bum. baby has a name, but not going to put it on the internet, as he isn't mine, and anybody googling babies name would find it instantly as its an original name, one nobody seems to have heard before lol, his mummy made it up
love to all
shaz xxx