MISI NEWS

Hi all,
With all the changes to MIsi steaming ahead, we may ahve to lose the site for an hour or so in order for Emma to change the IP address.

PLEASE BEAR WITH HER, NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED LOL

Day 2/365

I'm a member of the group Debi Birkin Pals on Ravelry. We are trying to make a different Bunty for each month of the year.
So please meet MISS JANUARY!!
I do need to decide how to make her a January Bunny. I think she might need some winter wear, after all, it can get awfully nippy down the rabbit hole.I mean do rabbitholes have central heating???? I DONT THINK SO!!



This little bear was out of the Sandra Polley Knitted Bears book. I asked Steve to call out a number then made the bear from the pattern nearest to that page.
I added the heart to brighten him up( the bear not Steve)
Now I need to decide what to make now.. I dont go back to school until Tuesday so I have tonight and tomorrow to have a real good blast with the needles.

Get a Minion for your home

I have designed these little fellas myself, you too can have an army of minions to do your bidding.Can't knit? Dont worry you can buy one here
http://www.nimbleneedles.co.uk/page1.html
and remember by buying one you also give to Richard's memorial fund

https://sunflower.tributefunds.com/fund/Richard+Derek+Meese
BUT BACK TO THE PATTERN. HERE YOU ARE>>


http://www.nimbleneedles.co.uk/6
Have a knitty new year

Happy New Year

Randomness

Tuesday 24th August.
This afternoon I had another order for a Humf, these little fellas are proving very popular, which I'm more than pleased about. Pleased because I designed them myself, and it feels good to see them selling well, and more importantly VERY pleased because each one sold goes to support Rich's memorial fund.

http://sunflower.tributefunds.com/fund/Richard+Derek+Meese/


A few makes from yesterday, well the smiley monkey was a while ago, I just forgot to post pics of him lol






We went outside to see Emma and Dan off last night, this was the view from the front door, they thought I was mad, dashing in to get the camera.I think the moon looks amazing, although I don't think my camera is good enough to pic up the colours and the textures.



I'm just adding the finishing touches to my latest creation, I would add pics, but I'm really not happy with part of it, you know how you think it looks okay, then you take a photo and see it from a different view point? That's what happened lol, now I have to undo it and start that bit again.


AND FINALLY
I love this clip, so funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Y0I91rubg

And now finally I just found this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/starttheday/4727418295/

Now that's a cosy!!

Post that makes you smile

Everybody likes to get smile-worthy post, I have been lucky enough to recieve this little lot recently.







I won this amazing paperbag album off Ali, for helping her choose a new name.(memories are made of this was my offering)
http://magicmakinghands.blogspot.com/





Yesterday I had this package of patterns, off the lovely Laura on the Crafts Beautiful forum, for no reason other than she thought I would be able to use them in my fundraising knitting.






Todays post brought these lovely things off Lyn, we were swap partners on Lisa's Blog
http://periwinklepark.blogspot.com/






And finally, this stunning set of earrings and keycharm off Caroline, again on the Crafts Beautiful forum. I entered my snail in her insect challenge and it was a runner up.

Bags of time

http://www.creative-crafting.com/

I visit this site regularly and love to read the magazine. One contributor Diane from http://www.folksy.com/shops/crawlin gives loads of knitting tips. I liked her beach bag and decided to have a go.I've never knitted a bag before, don't know why, just haven't.
I made this my "In bed" knitting, I have to have some thing to knit when I can't sleep, this can be midnight or 3am onwards. It was so easy, such a simple yet effective pattern. I even carried on with it when I wasn't in bed. IMAGINE THAT!!
Eager to finish, I hadn't got any D shaped handles, but adapted the pattern by adding an extra bit to support the top, then I lined it with some vintage fabric, I even added a tiny pocket for my keys. (Could have been deeper this bit)
Anyhoo, thanks Diane for sharing your pattern, and here they both are.
(Diane will remove your image if you want me to)