July 2012 – Page 2 – little cotton rabbits

Lately I have been on a bit of a quest to find a new tea cup to use in the garden. A search brought on by something that happened a few weeks back when I was sitting at the end of the garden and noticed occassional ripples in my tea. When I looked closely I found that there were little pellets of caterpillar pooh plopping down from the grapevine overhead! For all I know this may be a delicacy in some corner of the world but I prefer my cuppa sans pooh thank you.

During my search I came across this little mug with it’s handy lid and it’s the perfect solution to a cup of tea full of caterpillar pooh, wind-blown leaves or other garden bits and pieces. I love it!

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In fact I love it so much that I was prompted to make it a special coaster of it’s own. And since I am having some friends over for some chat and afternoon tea later in the month, I then thought it might be nice to make a set of coasters to pop our cups on and afterwards for them to take home with them.

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I used the first 7 rounds of Attic 24’s crochet bag pattern, topped off with 1 row of single crochet (with no increases) worked in Rowan fine milk cotton (sadly just discontinued) with a 2.75mm hook.

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I hope my friends like them, but if not there will be plenty of cake to enjoy. It’s a shame you can’t join us x

Sometimes the urge to knit something is like an itch and you just have to scratch it. After really enjoying making my first pair of welted fingerless gloves I am now planning pairs in green, blue and red.

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Afterall, you can’t really be properly dressed in winter without mittens to match your favourite scarf can you?

And I do have 3 favourite scarves 🙂

And I have found the perfect colours to make matching mittens, with Quince & Co. Lark in split pea, bird’s egg and winesap,

And the Quince & Co. yarn is so smooshy and lovely to knit with,

So, all in all I do feel completely justified in making more mittens (though H may not agree, he thinks that I have too many already)

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It would have been a shame not to use this pattern again, it really is very appealing, not least because it knits up so quickly and takes only 1 skein per pair. And perhaps if I keep knitting winter woollies the sun might stay out for a bit, it does seem to have a rather perverse nature this year!

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Moss stitch scarves from my improvised ‘pattern’ (notes here), green and red are in Rowan Big Wool and the blue is Misti Alpacas hand paint chunky.