Brightening my days

While the sun was shining on Thursday I spent some quality time at the sewing machine and made progress on my pretty daisy project. The happy colours in this fabric kept me smiling long after the weather changed back to cold. Almost done.

In the cool of the evening I got cosy on the couch with some warm knitting. 

The cape is at the point now where it functions just fine as a blanket while I am working on it or even when I take a break and do a few rows on a smaller project.

The blue is another fingerless mitt from some unlabeled worsted wool yarn from the stash. I really like the texture of the yarn, which is quite different from the Classic I am using for the cape, these will be warm mitts for sure.

Thanks to those ladies who took the time to answer my questions regarding hand size it really does seem that my wrist/hand proportions are a little unusual from this small sample. 

I called in Mr Random to help me decide who would receive a pair of my handknit mitts.

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:4Powered by RANDOM.ORG
Lucky number 4 is Fiona, I'll be in contact shortly to get some preferences.
Warmest wishes for a cosy weekend.

This Guys a Doll

I made this guy from one of the table cloths from my previous post. Oh, and the boss was happy when I told him I had taken some fabric samples home. So this is the extent of my sewing endeavours this week, not quite sure what happened but every step seemed to take longer than normal even though there were no tantrums and no need for the quick unpick - guess I was just going slow! Here he is naked, and fully clothed, haven't decided on shoes yet. All fabrics are recycled as the pants are made from an old pair of jeans and the top is from one of the table cloths. I am happy with the way he turned out. I am planning more sewing tomorrow, maybe I'll be going a fraction faster and may even get a finish?

Hope your weekend is going well.

Happy crafting