Green

 

I've been making puppets for Saturday's market. I was glad to be able to buy bright lime green towels last week. I buy the towels from a factory shop and they don't always have the colours I'm looking for. 

I hope the basket is now bright enough to catch the eye of passers by. 

Variegated Yarn, Plain Knitting

 

I usually knit socks with some kind of ribbed pattern, I think that makes them fit well, but I thought that stocking stitch would show this yarn off better. I dyed it when I did the orange/red dye mix. 

I'm working on jewelry bags again. I had to do an emergency batch last week, but the regular 30 at the end of the month is needed as well. 

Seeing Red

 

Or coral perhaps? I liked the colour that emerged when I overdyed orange yarn, so I thought I'd try to dye it in one move. I mixed orange and red dyes. It came out pretty well, I reckon. I finished knitting the solid colour socks yesterday evening:

Bottle Flowers

 

I think I've said before, I hate working with paint and glue! But last week's project for a craft group in a retirement home involved glue and this week's needs paint. So be it; it probably does me good to do things I'm uncomfortable with. We're making flowers out of plastic bottles. There are a lot of posts on Pinterest showing ways of doing it.  I like that we'll be able to get two flowers from each bottle. 

Spring Doily Resumed

 

I've gone back to work on the 2025 Spring Doily, done one repeat on round 17. There was a bit of thread left on the ball I've been using, but I decided it would be better to use the different thread for the whole round, rather than changing mid way. I don't think it's going to be noticeable that I'm using a different brand. 

I'm also working on the rest of the soap bag order. I hope to finish today.

Story Puppets

 

I didn't sell any puppets at the market, but I did get an order from a traiinee teacher for four puppets to illustrate the Gruffalo story. I did the mouse but put the project on hold to knit leg warmers that were needed urgently. I promised to finish the puppets over the weekend. And did. 

Overdyeing

 On Tuesday I received a message asking if I could knit a pair of leg warmers. Sure. By Saturday. Mmm, not so sure. That wasn't long to spin wool, wash it, dye it and dry it before I could begin knitting. Plan B required. Remember the orange/blue yarn I dyed last week for the market? I rewound the balls into skeins and then overdyed them with red dye. 

It worked fine. I didn't think there was enough for leg warmers, so I dyed a couple of half skeins of pink as well. The picture I was sent showed striped leg warmers, so that was fine. Once the wool was dry, I started knitting in earnest, in between other tasks that life requires. I finished at 5pm yesterday. 

They've just been collected. so that's mission accomplished. It was difficult to get the colour to look correct in photos. The top picture is more representative than the bottom one.