Finished!!

Evening!

Only a quick post as I'm desperate to go to bed (and the toilet, but that's the Guinness talking)!

I finished my sock last week and I love it! I've ordered another two skeins of wool from Abstract Cat yarns as a Christmas present to myself!

I've also started and completed a scarf for my friend Angharad. She picked out some Sirdar Squiggle yarn in 'Applejack' back in October and I've been wondering for ages what to make with it. It's a super chunky yarn made of two chunky yarns twisted around each other - and each strand is variegated which means there are different colours running throughout it! Took a long time, and some Ravelry advice but I decided on a scarf pattern in the end. Actually only took about 3 hours to knit from start to finish, really quick and it actually looks pretty good to! It uses twisted drop stitch so each stitch opens out and shows the construction of the yarn with the double strands. I think it looks pretty good, and it should be nice and warm and cosy!

xx

Tea Bag Folding

Howdy,

I did some tea bag folding tonight. I've done it once before as part of a little kit that I bought in an Arts and Crafts show in the Cardiff International Arena when I was 16. It turned out okay, but because it was printed paper it was quite tricky to fold the paper well because it's so flimsy (tesco value printing paper normally rules!). Might have another go tomorrow, but returned to the excelled website I linked to in the earlier 'Iris Folding' post which provides free patterns and templates and did a little more of that instead :)

Pics up soon

xx

Iris Folding

As part of a goodie bag I received off ebay I recently obtained some Iris folding paper. Being a little confused as to what to do with it, I had a look online and found this wonderful site.

http://www.irisfolding.circleofcrafters.com/ provides free patterns and links to another website with free folding papers which was extremely helpful. The heart pattern and all of the folding papers where taken from those websites. The first pattern shown is the heart...

Here's my version;



I messed the cutting out the heart slightly as I only have scissors at the moment.



I then tried with another template I found online;



When I was bored I sometimes used to do similar things with my pencil and ruler in classes in school, so it's nice to be able to actually do something now!



That's all for tonight

xx