Bakers Dozen + One

FINALLY!!! The piccies of my 12 in 12 jumpers! Which, ended up being a bakers dozen plus 1. Actually there is 15 but I am not 100% sure what to do with the 15th one just yet so it's sitting in limbo.

Some you will have seen on other posts. All have been posted on Ravelry. But here they are all together on my blog!!

All of my jumpers this year have been seamless. Mostly top down. I have to say it's my new addiction. I don't think I will knit in pieces again unless it's finishing up old UFOs.

Jumper number one Finished Feb 16th.

Jumper number 2 Finished March 6th.

Jumper number 3 Finished March 16th.

Jumper number 4 Finished March 18th.

Jumper number 5 Finished April 13th.

Jumper number 6th Finished April 21st.

Jumper number 7 Finished June 17th.

Jumper number 8 Finished July 26th.

Jumper number 9 Finished July 28th.

Jumper number 10 (yes I know it's a cardigan!) Finished Aug 3rd.

Jumper number 11 Finished Sept 24th.

Jumper number 12 (yes another cardigan) Finished Oct 11th.

Jumper number 13 Finished Oct 13th.

Jumper number 14 Finished Oct 24th.

So as you can see I have been really busy with jumpers. I have also made a child's jumper 15th. I have made a Cardigan for myself and a Jumper for Adam. Many many hats of different shapes and sizes. Legwarmers. Socks. Scarves. Gloves. Baby Devil Pants. Shaloms. Roses.

It's amazing how much I have done this year!! I am very impressed with myself.

I have now planted my yellow capsicum in my garden and have my corn to plant within next few days.

I have impressed myself in many ways this year so far with baking, knitting, weight loss and HOPEFULLY gardening! I am enjoying many achievements.

Happy knitting all! Hope your hump in the week sees you all well.

Katt

Home Grown

Have been busy of late with the garden. Wanting lovely home grown Fruit and Veg by summer time.

Having always grown up with my parents having veggie patch for as long as I can remember it's time I get my A into G and get one going that wont drop dead!

I don't have the greenest thumb (I think flower gardens are pretty but hate doing them, probably due to a whole life of suffering from Hay Fever).

But I am NOT allergic to fruit and veg!!

Above is my great use of the old Recycle tubs we had here (now wheelie bins). Thought it would make a very pretty and very useful Strawberry patch!!


And above are our Apricot, Peach and Red Apple trees (seen through our DEAD thanks to landlords sheep Green Apple tree).

And these are the Greengage trees (2 of them, 1 far better then other obviously) seen past another slowly getting healthy Peach tree and another dead something tree that has been dead since we moved in).

This is our very large Walnut tree. From what I have been told our house was built in the 1940s and the tree was there then. This is taken pretty much from where the cement joins the grass. And YES that's ALL our backyard all the way up. That dividing fence our Landlord put up to run his sheep in.

This is our new little Veggie Patch. Put in mid/late last week. You can see my 7 Tomato plants (6 different kinds), my Cherry sized red capsicum, my butternut pumpkin, my snow peas, my butter beans and my peas.

This is our Lemon Tree (or more..the sapling that came off the Lemon tree that was already hacked off before we moved in). The Lemon Tree and I have had a love/hate relationship. For first 6 years of us living where we are it rarely produced anything. So I got permission from the landlady to chop the bugger down. I came home and told it of it's grim future. Within months it turned on the charm and now we get a good little supply of lemons (we don't need many!!). And in the background Sir Gizzy (hasn't he grown??? Big 1yo now!!).

This week I am planning on digging up the last little side bit of my veggie patch (where the rake is) and planting my Corn. I also have plans on planting some green beans and a normal sized yellow capsicum. Also in the plans is planting some Raspberries too. I also have plans for the little triangle patch where Gizzy is in the Lemon tree piccie to plan some herbs. And I am considering where I can plant my Potatoes.

Not much knitting is getting done due to gardening and this years Major Spring clean out. But I have done a little here and there.

Next post I will pop up all the 12 in 12 kids jumpers that are not only FINISHED but have a few friends to go with them!!

I have also been cruising through my Chrissie knitting. From 6 things I have 2 partially started already things to go. I also have about 5-6 kids hats for Harley's Party bags for her birthday and some extra little "gifties" to finish up as well.

Happy knitting all and have a great week!

Katt

7 Days

I have been busy the past 7 days. Working on knitting and making plans for a small get together for tomorrow (Thursday). I have finished 2 brim hats and a mans pair of socks in this 7 days. As well as cast on another pair of mens socks.

Harley has decided for her party bags for this years birthday she wanted knitted hats. So I have set about doing that. Have gotten half way done with 5 make. Below are 2 Rastacat [rav link] (my design) hats in unisex colours to cover if the boys coming wish to have one of those.

Rastacat Hat done in Moda Vera Attraction (grey) and The Wool Company Utiku Multi Colours.

Above are part of my Chrissie knitting I am doing this year. These are socks for Adam's pop. 4ply Patonyle back when it was 50g balls. Gorgeous and soft that stuff!

I am half way through my Chrissie knitting, which I am so glad about! No stress for me this year on that matter!! Being organized is great! lol

Finances here haven't been the best. But I have to keep remember there are far worse people out there. I have great friends!!

Gotten a long way through Chrissie shopping too thank goodness that I have been working on it all year!! Only a few here and there left to get for (and work out). Over half way done on that matter.

Hoping to free up some more time to get back to designing a few more knits soon. Or at least writing up a few that I have already decided to share but yet to write out patterns for.

Looking forward to little get together of friends tomorrow! Very relaxing and laid back it will be. Place where kids that coming along can run riot. Will be fun I hope! Will see.

Hoping in the next few weeks to get a veggie garden started and fully in. I haven't gotten any seeds started so going to go for already grown from garden shop plants. Wanting Tomatoes, Capsicums, Pumpkin. Though thinking will have to grow the Corn, Beans, Carrots and Peas all from scratch. Still hopefully it's not too late for them! Also planning on turning the old Recycling bin tub (which is a sexy pinky purple) into a Strawberry patch.

I have finished other things, and will be eager to show them off once I sort out piccies for them!!

I hope everyone has a great week!! Happy knitting to you all.

Katt

New Design

I have finished item number 11 of my 12 in 12 kids tops!! This one is for a friends daughter. I went to high school with this friend. She has many kids so hopefully this will help her out next year with keeping at least one warm!!

I have also started working on the last of my 12 in 12. Rachelle has put on her birthday list that she wants a knitted jumper for Christmas. So I am knitting her a cardigan. It's inspired by the Shalom. I am almost finished the body of it so far! Which is good cos I will then have to knit Harley something for Chrissie too.

Also for Chrissie knitting I plan on knitting 2 pair of socks.

Speaking of Chrissie pressies! I am happy to say I only have 10 people left to buy for (well 9 cos one of them is me!!)..Still have the girls to do.

I have designed a new pattern as well. Its a cute little rasta style hat that fits children 5yo to adults. I have made one for each of my girls (both pictured on Rachelle below).

You can find the pattern HERE (Rav link) or HERE (etsy link).

Rachelle wearing Harley's Rastacat playing her Leapster (yes she can
see she has it pulled down really low and to side though).

I am considering writing up the cardigan pattern I am doing now too and making it available. I will have to knit it again to work out correct ply and everything first.

We have been slowly spring cleaning/dejunking our way through our house again for this year. Thought so start earlier this year then last year so we don't have to battle the heat as well. Today we have sorted out my linen closet (which we didn't do last year). Hopefully we will have time to get to finishing our bedroom tonight too. We will see though. We are rearranging some rooms as we go through them as well to add to it all.

The weather is fining up nicely here as well. Perfect weather..Not too hot, not too cold! LOVELY!

Hokies folkies!! Hope you are all doing well!!

Happy knitting

Katt

more lovelies!!

I still have a billion and one knitted items yet to show piccies of. They are all up on Ravelry for those on there. Search for Kattwings and you will get me.

First up in piccies. On the way home from Grandmas Friday of the first week of school holidays we went through to my parents place for lunch (after breakfast at Grandmas) and on way from my parents (on way to mother in laws for dinner) we stopped at Ledgerwood to take piccies of their memorial carvings in trees for those left behind and went away and died at war. They are just gorgeous to look at.


Above is my hair vs Adams hair. His hair is the original colour mine was. Look at how red it is now!! I love it :)
Finally finished my Finnish best friends sockies!! Told him I will mail them for his birthday next month with a few other goodies! I hope he likes them and that they fit.

Above is my best friend in her beret that she is soo in love with!! I am so happy she likes it. She saw the one I made for Harley (exactly same wool as hers smaller size) and requested one. Who can say no to their best friend with something that they are obsessed with knitting at the moment anyway!?!? So took me a few days but she got one too!

I am designing a new hat pattern at the moment. I am hoping to get it up real soon after I get some test knitters to play with it. I need to sit my butt down and write out my other patterns I have had made and wanting to put up too. I need time to re knit them and write it out as I go then send off to test knitters to get it all final!! I need time and another billion sets of hands!! sigh.

I hope everyone is having a great week! The weather here today is gloomy and cold and windy and perfect if you ask me! I love this sort of bleak weather.

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last lot of piccies!! Yes Sue I am a shocking enabler I have been told many times!! But I do it with love really I do!! lol

Happy knitting all!

Katt

yikes!!

ok so i have been a bad little bunny rabbit and not posted of late. but i have heaps of knitting i have been doing and some piccies. would have more but my sisters laptop somehow ate the most recent piccies off our new digi!!

So the knitting i have done. with the weather fairing up long enough for me to get the legwarmers finished i got that done in a hurry!! i can say i started off not to fussed with this pattern but then came to realise it was working in the black during winter that was the problem and once i got into the swing of the pattern i found i totoally loved it! Rachelle wants a pair done in black cos they ended up looking great on her!


Pattern: Mosey, downsized to fit child (Rav Link) (Knitty Link)
Wool: panda 8ply machine washable crepe
Started: June 2009
Finished: August 2009
to say sorry for taking so long due to crappy winter weather and black wool i made the above beret. which i called the "Je suis désolé beret" after maing this beret i fell madly in love with the pattern. its so easy and fun and turns out a gorgeous beret!!!

Pattern: Feather and Fan slouch Beret (Rav link) (Pattern link)
Wool: Lincraft Cosy wool (which is a 10ply not an 8ply)
Started: Aug 2009
Finished: Sug 2009 (knitted in under 24hrs)

I have since made this beret for each of my girls (had piccies but got eaten off digi) and another 2 just for the hell of it (Harley wants berets for her party bags in her Dec birthday). I am now knitting one for my best friend who fell in love with Harley got. Then i have to knit another purple one for a birthday pressie for the little 3yo girl next door. after that I will have made 7 of them and MIGHT just be over knitting them for awhile..lol

Last week we went down and visited Adam's grandmother for 3 days. it was a love trip. on the way home after breakfast at Grandmas we went through to my parents for lunch then continued on for dinner at the BIL (who has actually been behaving a lot better since i blew up at her at chrissie). so we ate 3 meals at 3 different places before getting home at 8:30 in enough time to put the girls in bed!! it was a big day and the new car is a total treat!!!

The friday before school finished we gave the girls the day off to take them off on a trip to Devonport. On the way we stopped at the Cheese factory and bought some cheese and tasted heaps of them..Then we continued on to the Chocolate factory (tasting more and buying more), before we made it to Devonport. had a small time around there (got the girls a top, considered going to the movies down there to see a 3D movie before school finishes) then we were off to Sheffield (the town of murals). We had lunch there (probably should have gotten it in Devonport!!), i picked up some alpaca fleece and we were off again on way home. We stopped at the raspberry farm on the way home (bought some chocolate coated raspberries..damn they were good!!) had a hot drink (they have hot raspberry, its raspberry syrup in hot milk) and a snack.

So as you can see we have been very busy these school holidays. The girls had a sleep over Sunday night of my bestfriends eldest child, all had fun and was very loud. Its good to keep them busy in the holidays but they certainly have been fighting more often past few months then they have when younger.

Happy knitting all! Take care and hope you have a great week.

Katt

Few things

Posting a merriment of new piccies on my Blog and on Ravelry. I HAVE been knitting even though I have been silent as well. We got a new Digital Camera Thursday. Didn't see any point in doing a post before then because I have noticed a rather big lack of comments when I don't post piccies.

Firstly is Pussycat Doll Harley modelling an ordered Cable and Rib beanie (yes I know you cant see the cable but shhhh you get the best view!!! lol). Will be mailing this off Monday now that its been paid for.

And below is a newborn jumper for a friend of mine in WA who gave birth to her 4th child (and third daughter) just a few weeks ago. I also made a rather cute little baby hat to go with it. This is number 9 of my 12 in 12 (and the hat was done so it didn't seem like I was cheating with a newborn jumper, which I know I am not, its still a jumper!! But its not a very big one).

Below is another of my 12 in 12 for 2009 finished items. Number 10. Another newborn piece, but Cardigan this time. This is for next door neighbours 4th child (and third son). Who is almost 2 months old but was a tad prem to begin with. Did a beanie for this one too so it didn't seem like I was cheating with another newborn item.


I also have finished the body of 11 of 12 in 12, gotten almost half way through friends sock, and cruising through the legwarmers (which I then have to make a beret to go with). So see I have been doing heaps of knitting!! lol

We finally took the car for a long trip. Thursday went down and saw the BIL. Yes I was desperate if it meant taking a voluntary we suggested trip to see that woman. But she has been good of late (rare I know) so it wasn't that bad.

Okies folkies. Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Happy knitting!!

Katt

well lookie there

Found out today that our new car has better features then I first thought. LOOK!! a yarn holder so my wool doesn't go all over the place on me while I knit (yes center pull ball..would also take hand wound balls really well too)!!


I really do have my knitting mojo back with a vengeance!!! Now that the newborn jumper is finished and the newborn cardigan, I am working on matching little hats for them (doing the hat for the cardigan at the moment). I have also finished one of the Finns socks, I have gotten half way through two orders. I finished the main part of my hoodie. I am cruising all over the place (and stopping myself from getting bored).

We are all in different stages of being sick. Getting over it all now I hope and lets hope none of us have backwards steps.

Had parent teacher day today for both the girls. They seem happy with them so far with progress. Harls teacher thinks she is a delight and a lovely child. Piglets teacher is very happy with her and we can see no problem with her education at all (she is 2 above the standard for English-Lit and 3 above the standard for Numeracy). Harls needs some work with her English-Lit but we always knew that was never going to be a strong point for her.

Okies folkies..I promise next time there will be more knitting related piccies! I have heaps to show you all.

Happy knitting, hope you all have a great rest of week and weekend.

Katt