Pinterest challenge for November - gone fishing

Hi,
Its time to show you my Pinterest Challenge item,   I found this fish on Pinterest a few months ago and after last months item I wanted something a bit easier,  did I get it,  not really.
This Goldfish pattern was a bit muddle their are two types of fin,  one padded and one ribbed,  I chose the ribbed one.  Its knitted in orange double knitting wool,   the mouth I could not quite get right I had a few goes at it and this was the best I could do with it.  The eyes are sewn on with white and and a dot of black wool, in the pattern they use eyes that move but I find people who buy toys these days don't want eyes that might come out when the kids are playing with them.
The pattern is by Susan Dennis and a link to her pattern.
I have no idea what Suzanne (link to her blog) and Carollyn (link to her blog) have done but I am sure their creations will be lovely.  Perhaps both of them will be better than my fish who knows.
Do pop over and see their creations I am sure they would be delighted to see you.
Until we meet again Take care
                       Hugs
                    Margaret

Snowdrop

Hi,

Its a wild wet and windy day here in Somerset,  they say the winds have not peaked yet,  I hope they do soon, it's pretty rough out there and wet.

This beautiful snowflake called snowdrop is by Joelle,  I really enjoyed tatting this pattern,  its a wonderful snowflake unfortunately I dont feel I did it proud,  I eye balled the picots and although I have not blocked it, it's not my best effort.   I used Lizbeth thread in white no 20.   I have not been too good the last few weeks with a lot of pain,  no excuse, I am going to make a few more of this wonderful pattern.  Here is a link to Joelle's blog

Do you remember this card a few weeks ago, to my surprise, this card was first for the CD Sunday challenge, "something beginning with H".   It made my day today.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend,

Take care in this rough weather

Hugs

Margaret

Happy American Thanksgiving

Hi
I wish all my American Followers a very Happy American Thanksgiving Day.

                   Hugs
                Margaret

CD Sunday Challenge - Sprinkle of Snowflakes

 Hi,
On this dull and damp day here in Somerset,  I hope its better with you.  I made this card for the CD Sunday Challenge,  this time its a Sprinkle of Snowflakes. As soon as I saw what the challenge was I knew it had to include a snowflake. Seeing that I am making tatted snowflakes at the moment I had plenty to choose from for this card.

The backing paper of snowflakes is from the Glitter and Glitz Art Deco Christmas CD by Debbi Moore,  the image at the bottom is from the Pamela West CD  disc two by Joanna Sheen,  and the tatted snowflake is from the 24 Snowflakes in tatting by Lene Bjorn and its day 14 in the book,  and I used Lizbeth thread in white no 20.
I placed the snowflake and the image on gold card, along with the Merry Christmas words in sparkling writing on parchment,  then added a bow with white and green ribbon,  with gold and green snowflake peel off's.
I hope there's enough snowflakes to make it a sprinkle.
Until we meet again take care
                          Hugs
                       Margaret

Cream Baby Clothes

Hi,

This is my latest knitting,  a cream set of baby clothes,  a bonnet, booties and mittens to match,  they are cream but the photo looks white,  the weather here has been dull for days and getting the most prefect picture seems impossible.
They are knitted in double knitting wool and a plain knitting pattern.
They are going into my Esty shop,  link in the sidebar.
Hope you are keeping well,  and until we meet again take care
                               Hugs
                            Margaret

Snowflakes 23/25 Motif challenge

Hi,
After a night a gale force winds and rain,  at least the wind has dropped,  its still cloudy and fairly mild.   Up north they have taken a battering with the winds, especially in Scotland,  with the first snow of the winter.
Today I thought I would show you the snowflakes I have been making from the new book its from the 20 to make series Tatted Snowflakes,  by Jennifer Williams.    I have enjoyed this book although I have only made a few so far,  the patterns are easy to read and diagrams are easy to read.  All the snowflakes have girls names which is nice.

This is the first snowflake in the book called Alison

 This is Catrin and is done in two half and then put together, as a Celtic design.    I did like this one the on the right is plain white and the on the right is red and white,  I have had a red moment recently as you we will see in a future post.

 This is Ruth,  again I tried the pattern with red and white,  I thought I had done it all white but I cant find that one, so perhaps I did not.

 This is Lynn  she is made with a ring,  I do like this design although I did the covering of the ring another way rather than the way in the book, I used Jon Yusoff from Tat-a-Renda Blog,  her way of doing the ring is much easier,  I then did the second row and joined to picots from the ring round.   I also did this snowflake as below with gold seed beads instead of the picots.

All the above snowflakes were made with Lizbeth thread no 20 in white and red.
Many of these snowflakes could be used as pendants,   and on page 40 there is a design for a pendant and earrings,  which I hope to make in the future.  As I said I did enjoy this book and a good book for the tatting library.
Have a lovely weekend and take care
                        Hugs
                    Margaret

Blue Orchids

Hi,

On Wednesday we had a lovely day, meeting friends for lunch,  on the way home we stopped off at the local garden centre,  walking passed the orchids I noticed a blue one.  Orchids are my favourite flowers and I have never seen a blue one,  so I just had to take photo of it.   

                              Hugs

                          Margaret

CD Sunday Challenge - Something beginning with H.... (Home)

Hi,
I thought I ought to put my best foot forward and get this card done, I have missed the last two challenges which is my own fault,  I can only blame the fibromalgia,  anyway here is my card for the CD Sunday Challenge,  Something beginning with H.... Home.  I know there will lots of christmas cards,  and I wanted something different,  after racking my brain I came up with Home (a new home card)
The image is from Joanna Sheens CD Pamela West Collection,  a real chocolate box cottage I matted the image onto a green shiny card,  and used a piece of Ivy backing paper,  the cream die cuts came from a friend and I used her bicycle to add interest,  finished off with green check ribbon bow and silver wording.   I wanted to keep it simple which I hope have achieved.
The weather is getting worse down here, but nothing like the forecast for Scotland with snow and gale force winds so I won't complain about it here.
Take care until we meet again
                             Hugs
                         Margaret

Remembrance Day

Hi,

On the eleventh hour on the 11th Day of November,   we should never forget and wear our poppy with pride

Margaret

Stripy Baby's Cardigan and matching hat

 Hi,
What horrible weather we have at the moment,  its been foggy for a couple of days and it looks like its coming in again tonight,  with rain tomorrow.
I thought we might like to see my latest knitting,  a stripy baby's cardigan and matching hat,   I knitted this in double knitting wool,   knitting all the way around until the sleeves as the wool forms the strips, so no need for a pattern and it saved trying to match up the seams.   The sleeves were knitted and joined at the armholes,  then it was knitted as a whole to the neck.
I did a white rib at the bottom, the cuffs, the border and also around the base of the hat.

Until we meet again take care
                  Hugs
              Margaret