smallhobbit | Craft

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.