I decided that since I had been given a book called Mini Knitted Woodland (By Sachiyo Ishii), I would knit a woodland. I started off with a huge list of the animals from the book which I planned to knit, and I decided to knit two of each. I got to thirty animals, and hadn't finished the list, but decided to stop because I was only a week away from the show, only had some animals and no other scenery.
I then knitted a forest floor. There was a pattern for it in the back of the book. It was made up of squares of different stitches, made with different shades of green. The squares are then sewn together to create a floor, which I then put my animals on to. I also crocheted two circles, out of two shades of blue to create a couple of ponds to go with the woodland, as I had two swans, two cygnets and four ducks! The ponds were sewn onto the edge of the woodland floor. They overlapped the edge to make sure they were part of the woodland but would allow a fair amount of space behind for the other animals.I also knitted one full size tree and a tree stump from the book. The tree itself was quick and fairly easy to knit, but back stitching the foliage on was a slow and painstaking task. But it was done and I was really happy with how the tree looked in the end. The tree stump would have been very easy to knit. But I had managed to leave one of my DPNs in Wales... So I had to improvise, which meant having one straight and sliding the stitches off it whenever I needed to knit them. It worked. Kind of.
Overall I was very pleased with the outcome of it all. I was happy when I finished the last tree and was able to lay out the pieces and see it all together. I was really happy entering it into the show, and was so happy when I got second prize. The hard work really did pay off!
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