Emma's Leftovers

This is one sock, from my range of odd socks using the leftover yarn from other socks that I have been making. This sock I finished a little while ago, but forgot to update you on! - Oops.

The leftover yarn was Regia, the Arne and Carlos Design Line in the Bramble colourway. The needles I used were a wooden set of 2.5mm DPNs, like I had used for Emma's original socks.

I knitted this sock cuff down, and using a heel flap and gusset construction. I find this construction easier on DPNs, and it was the first I learned to do, and I can make a pretty good sock using it.

The sock really didn't take me too long to make, and it was my travel knitting for a while. I had cast on 60 stitches for this sock. I am still trying to figure out the right "Recipe" for socks that fit me nicely. I find that I have arrow feet, but they are not that narrow! So I have a couple tight socks and a couple of fairly loose socks! Safe to say this sock was a success, and I will definitely be making more socks with this number of stitches in the future.

Now, time for more socks...

Lemmon Juicer Podcast Episode 4: WIP City

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Lemmon Juicer Podcast, make yourself at cuppa and settle down!

Instagram: @lemmonjuicer
Ravelry: sockbug97
Blog: www.lemmonjuicer.blogspot.co.uk

Finished Objects:
Winging It Jumper: There is no pattern yet for this! Project on Ravelery: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/winging-it-jumper

WIPs:
Necker Socks: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/necker
BreatheMAL: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Mam's Hat:https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gridiron-hat (Previous Hat: https://lemmonjuicer.blogspot.com/2018/02/snowball-beanie.html)
Charlotte Hat: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/charlotte-59 (Walrus Hat: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5842376568911170247&pli=1#editor/target=post;postID=6914927989642395713;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=20;src=postname)


Aquisitions:
Gamer Crafting: https://gamercrafting.com/product/kind-hufflepuff-themed-yarn-geeky-yarn-indie-dyed-yarn-variegated-yarn-speckled-yarn-harry-potter-themed-yarn-knitting-kit/

In The Shed:
Spitfire: https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/themes/spitfire/supermarine-spitfire-mkia-starter-set-1-72.html


Knit3Together Podcast:
Ravelry: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Instagram: @knit3togethertts
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt4eBPnJdIDk36qgNC70QfA

Music:
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Knitted Woodland at the Village Show

The past few weeks have been hectic in terms of my knitting. Mam had persuaded me to enter something knitted into the village show. But it was only four weeks before the show, and I had nothing to enter. So cue the panic deadline knitting!

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!

Lemmon Juicer Podcast Episode 3

It's the third episode of the podcast! I am sorry that I didn't manage to post about episode two. But I'm here with this one.

So here it is:

Shownotes:

Instagram: @lemmonjuicer
Ravelry: sockbug97
Blog: www.lemmonjuicer.blogspot.co.uk

Finished Objects:
Mini Knitted Woodland:https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/mini-knitted-woodland
Memory Blanket: https://loveknitting.com/memory-blanket-knitting-pattern-by-georgie-nicolson-tikki

WIPs:
Winging it Jumper: There is no pattern yet for this!
Necker Socks: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/necker
BreatheMAL: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast

Knit3Together Podcast:
Ravelry: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Instagram: @knit3togethertts
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt4eBPnJdIDk36qgNC70QfA

Music:
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Wedding Wasitcoats

This I think is the first project which I have done which has had a proper deadline. Those of you have been over to my youtube channel and have seen the Blog Round Up video, you will have seen these waistcoats being made and they were for my Mam's wedding.

The theme for the wedding was purple, and we had decided it would be great to have purple waistcoats, but we were sure we couldn't find what we wanted in the shops. So Mam got out an old pattern for a waistcoat that she had used years ago, and we made one waistcoat to see how it went.

The outcome was good, Mam loved it and suddenly I had four more to make. The waistcoats were for Me and Emma (we were firing the wedding train as it was on the Talyllyn Railway) and then another three. One each for my two brothers and then one for Mr M, all who had roles to play on the day.

I did learn a lot, having to make them all in different sizes. This was also the first time I had properly sewn something for someone to wear. I had once sewn myself a basic skirt, but this was a whole new ball game.

Luckily they all came out pretty well, and we had a great day.

The Happy Couple and Children

The Firemen

Don't let the bed bugs bite!

This was a cute little pattern shown to me by my friend Shanni, from a book called Knitting Mochimochi, and it was such a cute pattern I had to have a go! Its called the Bite-Free Bedbug. And it is a little six legged bug, who is very ready to get some kip.

The first one I knitted was this little light aqua coloured one. The yarn I was using was leftover yarn from my Two-Tone Scarf, and his little hat, some leftovers from the Legwarmers I made quite a while ago too. So the bug itself doesn't use much yarn at all.

The Bug is knit entirely in the round, and the suggested needles are four, 4mm DPNs. You knit the main body first and before you finish, you stuff him, before continuing to the end, adding a little more stuffing and then cast off.

I found him really quite simple to knit, and the book itself explained everything, and was well written. The hat was also knit in the round, and added on afterwards, which I thought was a lovely addition. The eyes are sewn on using a contrasting colour at the end as well, just to give it that little sleepy look too.

Whilst the pattern was easy, it was rather fiddly. Especially when it came to the legs and ears, as they were knit separately, then sewn on, but having something to rest it on helped.

But I enjoyed knitting the first one so much, and still had a lot of leftover yarn I decided to make another in opposite colours. Now interestingly, the second one was ever so slightly smaller than the first one. Now I don't know if that is down to tension, or the differences from when I stuffed them? I'm really not sure, but they do look ever so cute together.

On a slightly soppy note, I did give one of them to Mr M and kept the other for myself. He really liked his, I let him choose which one he wanted, and he kept the lighter colour one.

The Lemmon Juicer Podcast

Those of you who do follow me on facebook or instagram you will have seen the latest post.

I've started a podcast!! It is rather scary, as it really is my first time doing this, and I really hope that you enjoy it. I will be posting on here every time that a podcast goes live, with the show notes and a link to it on Youtube.

So here is the first episode - Looming Landrovers:

Shownotes:
Finished Objects:
Rose Window Hat: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/rose-window-2
Morpheus Baby Jumper: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/morpheus
Leftovers Socks: More about them can be found on the blog and ravelry.

WIPs:
Necker Socks: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/necker
Mara Shawl: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/mara-9
Badger: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/little-badger

The podcast is in two halves, the first half is your typical knitting podcast, talking about the things I've been making and things I shall be making, and the second half is called In the Shed, and I'll leave you to watch it to find out what that is all about! 

I really hope you enjoy this first episode, and if you want to, please give it a like or a comment, and if you really feel like you want to, subscribe to the channel! I do intend to make another episode, and will probably keep updating on a twice monthly basis, but we will see how it goes! 

Please give it a watch and give feedback if you want to!