Showing posts with label Jiffyknits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jiffyknits. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 November 2010

Happy (late!) Halloween......

Happy Halloween loyal readers!

I realise I am a bit late (4 days!) but I was busy with trying to post Japan pictures and set up the giveaway. However I was not willing to let Halloween pass by without a mention because it is one of my fave holidays :D

The theme for the swap on ravelry was Halloween so I got a cool themed parcel that made my day even more special. It had loads of great stuff including some kool aid so I can do my own dying. (How exciting!)
Thankyou to my generous swap partner!



Because we arrived home quite late by the time we got to the supermarket the next day all the big pumpkins were sold out but we did find these........ munchkin pumpkins!
They are so cute, however because they are so small they are un-carveable :/ So we had to decorate them and draw on them instead.
Mines the one with the purple star bow.....

 ... from real pumpkins to knitted ones. I made four of these as a Halloween gift for my family and one one for myself ( I couldn't resist!) They were from the Jiffy knits book I mentioned in an older post on my blog. the pattern was soooo quick I made them all in one night:



I hope everyone had a good Halloween like me, next is Christmas :D

DON'T FORGET TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!!!!!
Information and how to enter is in earlier post and will be re posted soon :)
Good luck

Bye bye friends :0)

Friday, 6 August 2010

Jean Greenhowe's Jiffyknits

Hi,
I'm on holiday in the Isle of Wight at the moment and when looking round a local knitting and craft shop I came across a pattern book entitled Jean Greenhowe's Jiffyknits. It is the perfect pattern book for a beginner as everything in it is made from garter stitch strips and squares. I only wish I had this book when I first started as it is much more exciting than the usual scarf. Inside are patterns for all different cute items from a tin of baked beans to the invisible man! All the patterns are very quick and rarely use more than 25g of yarn so are great for stash busting so will even benefit the intermediate knitter. You can buy Jiffyknits patterns from Jean Greenhowe's website. There are also some good free patterns on there as well so it is well worth a look.

Happy knitting :)