Finished!

I have finished both of my projects! Woo!

That's right, I finally made up Mini Fox:

Foxes everywhere... I got that notebook from Bloomsbury and the fox badge was a present from my friend (and first-year room mate) Emma; I wear it lovingly.

I've started playing around with the settings on my dad's Olympus camera, the above picture was taking using a lighter tone setting, I think it looks quite nice for this close-up.

I saw a T-shirt with these Doctor Who owls on it once, I really love it! This is the section with Tom Baker Owl on it and he's represented with his stripey (and longggg) scarf, it's almost like mine...

Ems being an amazing model: in this photo we went for the 'at one with nature' look. In this photo I used the 'pop art' setting which makes the colours really vivid. I don't know if it was necessary in the evening sunlight, but hey-ho it doesn't look too bad.

Here she is again (looking fabulous with her recently done hair) going for the 'classic knitter magazine model' pose (with added Spaniel).

I like this one, although Binkie looks like she's ready to attack the scarf (which she did later, but don't worry we saved it).

And finally, Emma looking her best, going for the 'scarf on face' look. Brilliant.

Next project?? Any ideas??

I was really inspired by a photo from my first knitspiration post (#appropriate, it is called knitspiration after all). 

This photo, to be precise. I downloaded some simple instructions for cable knitting last night, but it was not the right type of cable for this headband. I dug out an old Rowan pattern book that I had with a cable knit scarf in it, the scarf had two types of cable in and one of them was pretty close to this style, so I'm going to trial and error until I come up with the right look. 

If you have any ideas for some projects that I could make then please comment below!

Before the wool-athon

I currently have two projects on the go which I need to finish before I begin with my

MIGHTY WOOL-ATHON

I started a project during the Easter holidays and have all but put it together.

This will one day (soon) look like this:

He's called a 'Mini Fox Collar', the small version of the original pattern 'Mr. Fox-Stole My Heart'. I love all of Stephanie Dosen's patterns and her blog is brilliant too. The reason my Mini Fox is yet to be completed is because of one tiny little detail: magnets. You can see in the pictures above that Mini Fox's chin stays perfectly on his bottom, this is because there are two small-but-powerful magnets keeping him held in place. I ordered my magnets off Amazon and they took four weeks to arrive! By the time they had reached Jersey I was deep into final-year essays and didn't have time to sew him up. The end result will be posted shortly.

My other project on-the-go-at-the-mo is a simple scarf:

I was on holiday in the Lake District with my family recently, and my mum and I made our usual visit to our favourite Kendal wool shop "William's Wools". 

THEY HAD A SALE ON

I found this beautiful Rowan Handknit Cotton  for HALF PRICE - I couldn't believe it. I bought 10 balls and could not wait to get home and use it for something, anything, it didn't matter I just had to have that wool at that price. (I just went to the Rowan website in order to create the link above and took a look at the full range of colours... man I want them all now.)

I decided to make this striped scarf with the wool, it's kind of Tom-Baker-Doctor-Who-esque (massive Doctor Who fan, not even gonna try and hide it), and will help me to look studenty when I'm prancing around Durham doing my Masters. 

SO. When Mini Fox is actually a fox and my scarf is all finished THEN I will start the wool-athon. I have already found some patterns to try for little hearts, and I went through all of my Love Knitting emails and printed out all of the free patterns I have stocked up. 

I shall end today's post with a picture of my little helpers, Ruby and Binkie. Ruby is a helper, Binkie is a hindrance.

Ruby the helper...

... Binkie the diva.