Merry Christmas

A rather belated Merry Christmas to you all!

I thought I would share a couple of photos I took this morning in the Cathedral when I arrived for work before we opened to the public.

Hats!

I've been suffering recently with frozen shoulder and crochet seems to aggravate it, so I've found myself doing a bit more knitting. But impatient me wants it finished NOW, so I've gone for hats as they're pretty quick to make .

I came across a lady via instagram who designs the most amazing hats. She's Irina of @myknitland and sells her patterns through Ravelry. (Sorry, my tablet just won't copy and paste links anymore...)

One of them is free - Foliage - and I made it last Christmas but it came out too big. My fault for changing the needle size. I finally got round to unpicking it and making it again in a lovely burgundy yarn.

I should have taken the time to "relax " the yarn before using it again though ,as when I washed my remade hat it turned out to have a bit of give, so is still too big!!

Never mind. It's a lovely pattern and I would recommend it - along with her others.

Next I made a complicated design called Flame. I used Drops Puna, a pure alpaca yarn and it turned out just right!
Just look at the top of the hat in the second picture - so clever. All I need is a freezing cold day as this one is going to be really warm!

I decided I might have time to make a hat for a friend for Christmas, so chose another design called Crystal. This one turned out to be even more complicated and is quite a challenge!
I'm using the same grey yarn again , even though it looks a different colour in the photo,  and you can see my cute stitch markers too. They're made by Cheryl of Chapelview Crafts and they're simply amazing.  Hand made little gingerbread men, all with different colour scarves. I also bought a pair of gingerbread men earrings!
But anyway , the hat. I'm determined to finish it and the pattern is going to look fab when it's done. Hope my friend likes it...

And here's the scarf I've just finished and posted off to the USA. My customer wanted tassels on it and they turned out really well. This pat*tern used to be called "Parterre" but has been re-branded the Texan Muffler. A much better name I think.

Available to buy on Ravelry - just follow the link on my shop page or in the side bar.

That's all for today . I thought a quick hello was preferable to not popping in for another month! Hope your Christmas shopping is going better than mine - ie barely started and as I was told yesterday, there's only 15 days to Christmas! 

Take care,     T    xXx