Craft - Month 3

[smallhobbit]

First up I finished the cross stitch by the end of the first week of July.  Hooray!


After which I decided to try some other crafts.  Back in early spring I had ordered some wool for my mother, and the website I'd ordered from had some free amigurumi crochet patterns, so I'd made a collection and decided to have a go.  I have done some crochet, but was finding I was battling with it, so thought I'd try converting the patterns into knitting patterns.  I did a lot of knitting in the past, so it turned out okay, and I knitted a whale and a penguin chick.

   

At which point I realised that I really wanted to knit rather than crochet, and that it would help if I had some actual knitting patterns. 

I found the Twenty to Make series with Tiny Toys to Knit and Tiny Christmas Toys to Knit and began with a goldfish.



I then found the website for the publishers of the books: Search Press.  Along with ordering another book (more Christmas decorations), I found they had a few free patterns, so I knitted another penguin.



I also bought several small balls of different coloured wool and knitted some parrots.



 

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Congrats on the cross stitch! You've been at it a long time and it looks great! And your birds are very twee and cute.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much - it took just over 18 months, but was worth the effort.

I'm glad you like the birds - they were just a quick fun knit :)