Butterflies

 

I've tatted a few butterflies for my food net. The one on the left is Butterfly with daisy picots by Jennifer Williams. The middle one is called Together we fly butterfly. It's a collaboration between Claudia Huber and muskaan, to create a pattern for a butterfly by an unknown designer. The right hand one is Mary's butterfly by Maria Pop of maryshandmade.blogspot.com. I made a mistake on the red one, so I tatted another one. It's a one shuttle pattern.  I had all the patterns printed out, but I think you could find them online with a bit of help from Google or Pinterest. 

Daisies and Daisy Picots

 

The weather still isn't ideal for washing wool so it's just as well I don't have any orders. I thought I'd leave the wool on one side make another food net. I was tatting daisies when it occurred to me that I was being rather lazy, just doing the same design as my previous one. So I thought I'd tat some different butterflies. I had a look through my tatting file and found several patterns that would fit the bill. 

I think I'll start with Jennifer Williams's Butterfly with 'Daisy Picots'. First I needed to practice tatting daisy picots, so I made a few little flowers. Just as well I did, because the first one was hopeless! On the second one I didn't pay enough attention to tension. Got it eventually. So now I'm ready to tackle the butterfly. 

Slowly

 

I'm making slow progress on the One Skein Wonder scarf by The Public Knitter. That's because I'm only working on it for a couple of hours each evening. It looks as though I'll be able to finish the ball of yarn and reach the dimensions in the pattern, which is good; I don't want left over leftovers. 

Four More

 

I've spun another four skeins, which I intend to knit myself, but the sun still isn't shining, so they'll have to wait. 

Four Skeins

 

I've duly spun four skeins of wool to hold in stock. The weather here is soggy and cold, so I haven't washed them. I'll wait until the sun comes out. 

Spinning

 

I thought I'd better spin some more wool, so that I have some yarn on hand if someone wants socks or gloves or whatever. I've spun one bobbin full, will spin another bobbin full and then ply the two together. There should be four skeins of plied yarn when I'm done. 

On And On

 

My plan was to use Kath's left over yarn to make That Nice Stitch Cowl. But when the cowl seemed long enough, there was most of a ball of yarn left! So I browsed again and decided on One Skein Wonder by The Public Knitter. 

It's very easy, knitted in garter stitch with a four row pattern, perfect for evening knitting and knitting while chatting. I saw other patterns with similar structures that had pages and pages of instructions. This one suits me very well.