Cowl Mad

I’m a little bit addicted to making these cowls.

This is a new one which is almost complete. I love the yarn. The colour is perfect for the winter and its so easy to work with.
Results to come shortly…….

Busy busy!

I’ve left this blog unattended for longer than I had planned, but in my defence, I have been incredibly busy.

I had got in touch with some old crafting friends and asked if they wanted to start up a swap.
We used to do it years ago when our children were younger, but as they have grown, our lives have become more complex and busier (I think I’m going to use busy and busier a lot in this post).
Everyone loved the idea, so we decided to go at it with a casual and laid back attitude. We gave ourselves a month or so to complete the task with the theme of making something that made us, the crafter, happy and in turn, making the recipient happy!
We were only to use items that we had in our house, so no money was to be spent and everyone’s partners were anonymous.

I pretty much knew what I wanted to make as I had spotted a pattern on Lion Brand weeks before and I had the perfect yarn to do it.
Unfortunately this little lady destroyed the first two attempts…….

This is Margot, the youngest of our three dogs. Margot was a originally a foster dog. We help out our local branch of the Blue Cross with stray dogs that they struggle to take in.
Margot was 16 weeks old, incredibly underweight, deaf and its suspected that she was left to wander off from a travellers site.
She mainly a Lurcher but has since developed some black spots and seeing as her face isn’t as long as a pure breed Lurcher, we think she has some Dalmatian in her too.
But yes, she looks incredibly angelic in this photo. The truth is, she’s a nightmare in disguise and loves nothing more than to destroy my projects when she’s not too busy harassing my other dogs!

Anyway, this was the final piece…..

And it was sent to a lovely lady I know, along with these other little pieces……

I was so pleased with how the cowl came out that I’ve made another.
I’ve now moved on to the project I mentioned in my last post, making some animals for my friend. I’m on a really right time schedule as I will be seeing her on Saturday and I will be working the next two days, so in between refereeing children, dogs, cooking meals, cleaning and all the other inane jobs, I will have to get this sucker done!

After, I’ll be turning my attention to some gorgeous mustard and grey yarn I bought yesterday. Right now I’m thinking they’ll look amazing made in to berets and scarves but I’m undecided. They’re too nice to touch!