My Creative Space...

A few weeks ago I told you all that I was knitting a unicorn. Well, I finished a while ago but just never got round to taking photos until this morning.

She's been named Smelly because apparently she won't let Ella give her a bath.

When I introduced her to Ella it was definitely not love at first sight like I'd hoped. Here's how it went:

I'd finished Smelly late one night and was planning on giving her to Ella the next day but when Ella woke up having had a bad dream at about 3am I said "Maybe you need a Unicorn to sleep with" and Ella nodded her head so I went to get the unicorn and I gave it to Ella. When she saw it she said "That's a donkey...and it's brown".

I'm putting it down to being pretty dark in the room at the time.

Anyway, since then they have fallen in love and sleep together every night.

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My Creative Space... (and giveaway number four)

I've been doing some knitting...here's a leg and a body.

It's going to be a horse and then I'm going to stick a horn on it so it turns into a unicorn for Ella. I love the knobbly knees. It's knit flat in the pattern but I'm doing it in the round to save doing all the seam sewing, plus the starting increases were too hard to do flat. Maybe I'll get another leg made today.

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Now for my last giveaway (for now anyway).

Here's the one that I'm giving away this week.

I know a lot of people don't have iPads (yet) but feel free to enter anyway and you could give it away as a present or something.

It's made from a aqua coloured upcycled fabric that's got brownish/orange strips on it. It's lined with grey polar fleece and has stiff interfacing so it's easy to get your iPad in and out (effortlessly my husband said).

To enter all you need to do is leave a comment. CLOSED

Entries will be open till 8am on Wednesday 28th July 2010. Please make sure you leave an email address so I can contact you if you're the winner. I'll post to anywhere in the world.



Good luck! Hope you all have a nice Thursday. xx

A school beanie

Joe requested a beanie for school to keep his head warm. They sell them at the uniform shop, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy one when I can make him one myself. So I found the right colour yarn and a pattern and started this.

I got the right gauge and did the same size as in the pattern, but tried it on Joe last night and the cable section is way too tight! Now I have to decide if should undo it all and start another pattern (then I don't have to buy any more yarn) or finish it and give it to my little nephew.

Decisions, decisions...