CarolineLucyMur

Knitting, crochet and general craftiness.

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Embroidered patches

Some initial experiments hand embroidering patches. 

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Red Sweater

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Cable Knit Gloves

Developing a new obsession with cabling. This is my first complete cable project, expect many more in a similar vein. 

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Nessie

Yet another sea creature, this time of the mythical variety. I just can’t get enough of these patterns from Hansi Singh. 

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Knitted Cuttlefish

Another amazing knitting pattern from Hansi Singh. This time a knitted cuttlefish, because why not? 

This was another present for a new born and I am fairly certain that this is the only toy cuttlefish they will get. Wouldn’t want to be predictable or anything. 

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Nancy the Nautilidae

In case you were wondering what a Nautilidae looks like in knitted form, look no further. 

I think I have managed to excel myself in finding the most obscure thing to knit as welcome to the world gift for two friends of mine’s second child. In fact I had to google what it was (and how to pronounce the name). 

This is by far the hardest thing I have made in my knitting career thus far. Multiple mistakes were made, many swear words uttered and there were lots of evenings where I have to unravel hours worth of work to start over again. But I got there in the end and am a stronger knitter for it. This pattern comes from the amazing designer Hansi Singh, who's patterns I have been ogling on Ravelry for a year now. I bought her one of her books finally, so expect more random knitted creation in a similar vein to this one. 

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Sara and James

Another foray into the world of embroidery. This time a present for two dear friends who got married last year. 

Here is a close up of the stitches I used to recreate the images on their invite. I was going to fill in the lettering with split stitch, but rather liked the look of just a simple outline in back stitch.

Definitely going to do more embroidery projects. Just as well as I was a little over zealous when ordering cotton - I have enough to last me decade at least. 

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Spring/Summer Cardigan

Let’s face it, it never really is summer here in the UK. When it is here, it is only fleeting so always wise to have a cardi close to hand. So here is another one to add to the growing collection!

I was donated some mohair blend yarn a while back (occupation hazard of being a knitter - regular donations of leftovers from other people’s yarn stashes, not that I am complaining!) which I paired with a vintage inspired pattern on Ravelry and the final touch - some glass vintage buttons from ebay. Definitely in my top 5 of my knitwear items at the moment!

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Sky Blanket - June

Round up of the weather back in June 2016

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Stitched Letter

Been branching out more and more into embroidery lately and I decided to combine it with another hobby of mine, letter writing, for the ultimate in slow communication. 

Everything is stitched, even the note paper. Definitely not just another email clogging up the inbox. 

Got the idea from this this great website: http://www.leafcutterdesigns.com

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Pot Holders

Just a lil’ something I whipped up with some left over yarn. 

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Mathematical Knitting

Been a while. Mainly because I have had a self imposted embargo on buying yarn until I completed a project I started back in March 2015. 1 and half years later, I have finally finished it! 

Not that it took me that long to do all the knitting. I finished that ages ago, but I then massively procrastinated on weaving in the ends and sewing it all together. I thought banning myself from buying any more yarn and starting new projects would help chivvy myself along. It didn’t, but I got there in the end. 

This is my biggest (and most expensive) project to date. The pattern is from Woolly Thoughts, two knitters who combine the art of knitting with.....maths! Yes that’s right. Not only does this blanket brighten up my bed room and keep me warm at night, it also physical illustration of a practical use for triangular numbers. 

It sounds like a strange combination, but maths and knitting/crochet have more in common that people first think. For starters knitting and crochet patterns are a lot like coding. And one mathematician Daina Taimina used crochet to solve an age old mathematical problem (creating a workable model for hyperbolic space) that had stumped mathematicians for years. There is this amazing TED Talk that explains it all. 

Basically knitting is bad ass. Now, time to go to the wool shop...

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May

Month 3 of knitting the sky each day. Pretty cloudy, quite variable and lots of rain. Not looking that dissimilar to March! 

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Crochet eggs with faces. Obviously. 

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April

So a lot more blue this month. A bit of grey here and there, plenty of fluffy white clouds and 6 full days of solid blue sky - basically because I went to Bahrain for just shy of a week at the end of April. So this month isn’t entirely representative of UK weather in April. Stay tuned for more updates about the world’s slowest weather report.

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March

One month down and March is complete and here is a round up of the last months weather in wool form. Started off a little stormy, with a day of snow (that’s the all white line). Only 3 days in total where there were no clouds in the sky and the band of dark grey at the top is Storm Katie that hit the UK last week. Now on to April, here is to hoping it includes slightly more blue and a little less grey. 

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Excuse me while I knit the sky...

Inspired by this amazing blog, I am starting a new knitting challenge with my long time knitting comrade Alexia where each day for the next year we will knit the colour of the sky. 

We each have 5 different colours to choose from (dark grey, light grey, light blue, blue and white) and each day we will pick two colours that best represent the weather that day and proceed to knit two rows with them. The final result will be 12 squares which document month by month the weather! Alexia lives in Italy, so I suspect her squares will have a lot more blue in them, whereas my final product might be the stark reminder about how crap the UK weather is. Stay tuned to see how I get on!