Mommy & Baby Penguin

Here's mommy & baby penguin.

I am really pleased with them both but not sure if they are going in the Folksy shop as yet. I will think about it overnight. I really love the patterns in Amigurumi World. They are really simple to follow but yield excellent results even from a novice like me.

I need to cast on some socks though for my portable projects as the toys are definately too fiddly to travel with. I am thinking of some cool purple and lime green ones. Not sure how cool they'll be but we'll see :o)

Book Clear Out!!

Well I decided to bite the bullet and clear out my knitting bookshelf. Finally whittled down the ones I want to sell and here they are:

And that's just a fraction of the bookshelf. I can't believe that I am so obsessed with knitting I even have knitting fiction!!! In all truth I love books and hate selling them but I am slowly moving on to having my books on audiobook format so that I can sell the hard copies on. I don't think I will ever bring myself to do that with my beloved Terry Pratchett novels though.

I finally finished No Idle Hands: A Social History of Knitting in America. Excellent book with a very good narrator. Covered colonial knitting right up to Elizabeth Zimmermann and very interesting for the knitting obsessed listener. And baby penguin now has a head and I am starting work on his body today.

My first sale :o)

BIG HUGE THANKS to Calana Crafts for being my first ever customer on Folksy. I'll hopefully have more up in my shop by the weekend for anyone else who may be interested. In the meantime, i'll do requests ;o)

My Folksy shop finally has something in it!!

Timmy the Turtle is my first item for sale on my Folksy Shop 'Charminglochie Hand-Knits'. Find it at http://www.folksy.com/shops/charminglochie. Sorry the picture is a bit big. Haven't figured out how to resize them on this laptop yet. Please let me know what you think of the listing by leaving a comment here. I need feedback on it to make it as good as possible :o)

Spring has definately sprung.

I can tell because we have a new arrival in our house.....



Meet Timmy. This excellent pattern by Alan Dart is actually for a glove puppet but Little One is a bit young for that so I stuffed the body, which is probably why he looks a little square.

The pattern also calls for Timmys' dummy but i've replced that with a red felt mouth as we're trying to wean Little One off his own dummy at the moment. All in all i'm pleased with him and substituting Patons Essence with Sirdar Snowflake Chunky seemed to work well.

I'm currently working on Mummy Penguin from Amigurumi World and hope to follow her up with Baby Penguin. I think I might cast on a pair of simple socks to keep as my portable project as the little bits of toys can be fiddly to carry with you. I have some grey sock yarn in the stash that should do nicely.

I've had a bit of a flux of knitting magazines recently with Yarn Forward, Simply Knitting and Knit Today all coming through my door in the last week of so. Yarn Forward was excellent as always but can't review as i've lent it to Cheesybabe to check out. But the other two were frankly dissapointing. The second part of Medieval Mice from Alan Dart was of course superb but nothing else did it for me in all honestly. If it wasn't for the toy patterns and the crossword I would cancel this subscription.

So now I have the excitement of choosing this months audiobook from Audible. I think I will go for something knitty as the Kelley Armstrong Otherworld audiobooks are giving me all the fiction I need at the moment. Have a good knitting week everyone :o)