Monkey progress

A week on holiday meant there was quite a bit of time for Monkey planning.
However the Monkeys appeared when we got home. They now look like this:

I was a little worried about the transition from brown to fair isle. However the button band and cuffs will be in the pale colour, so I think it will work.
7 Monkeys in total

With smiley faces

And even the back is quite neat for me!

Now I need to go and knit some arms!

7 Months

Thomas, Tony and I spent his 7 month birthday in the Lake District.
Building towers

Lounging around

and laughing

Monkey Magic

Look what happens when you find monkey buttons in a knitting shop

And one of your friends gives you some of your most favourite yarn to knit with (in monkey colours)

You remember the monkey blanket you wanted to knit....

But decide that Thomas needs a new cardigan far more than a blanket....

And so the plotting continues....

A new hat...

The matching Mother and Son hat is now finished, much to the amusement of those in York this weekend!

Brownie, from Twisted Woolly Toppers in Malabrigo Worsted, left over from my February Lady Sweater. Gorgeously soft and very warm. It is lucky I have a small head, as this only just fits..

I found I couldn't pick up nearly enough slipped edge stitches to make the earflaps... but I'm not sure I need them.

First Knits of the Year

I cannot quite believe it is nearly the end of January! Where does the time go?
There has been knitting - a late Christmas present for a special friend who has had a horrid 2010.

Pretty Thing by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It turns out I now have the required brainpower for lace. Made in Posh Sophia 2ply is a a gorgeously soft cashmere hug. It used about 17g of yarn, so I have enough left over from a 55g ball for possibly two more!

Then there is the first FO of the year - Godfather socks for Thomas in left over Hazel Knits yarn from my Oolong socks.

Named Godfather socks because they were knit whilst watching the Godfather trillogy over New Year. They are a little big yet - but at the rate he is growing it won't be long before they do fit.

I'll be back soon, with a new hat and tales of a weekend away in a Convent in York with many other knitters and a few babies thrown in for good measure.

A fabulous Christmas Hat

A quick video, of Thomas' first solo swing, and his fabulous Christmas hat from the wonderful Roobeedoo


All he needs to do is point and he has the catalogue pose down to a tee


The hat is the wonderful Brownie from Twisted Woolly Toppers. I may have to make myself a matching one!
Thank you Roo, we both love it!

6 Months Today

How time flies....

He is a very happy little chap.

Who can now sit up on his own for quite a long time!