Well I scooped an extra day this week by thinking that it was Thursday last Wednesday and posting a day early, oops!
This week, I have been continuing to make stock for my craft sale. I am almost (and that is a big almost) ready. I finished all of my Sugar Cubes for now and have moved on to Monsters. I had a bunch of fun with these as you can really use your imagination to make them each unique and as colourful as possible.
This toy is a great way to use up those fancy fluffy yarns that you bought as irresistible and now wonder what the heck you are going to make with it.
My pattern for these is free on Ravelry for now and is not a difficult pattern to make. You do need to have some knitting skills though to increase and decrease. I would not rate this as a rank beginner pattern.
I am going to continue my toy making for one more week and then it is time to inventory and ticket for the first sale. I am going to try to squeeze in a couple of more kid sweaters as well, good luck on that to me!
I started making a poncho with Hobbii Twirls yarn and I am not loving the way it looks. The yarn is really nice to work with. It is soft and has a nice stitch definition, but I somehow expected it to be more gradient than it is. You can see stripes in the work where the colours have changed. It may be that this is just the nature of this style of yarn. I own a cake of Whirl but haven’t used it yet. I hope it has gentler colour transitions.
Thank you for following my blog and have a happy crafty week!
The monsters are so adorable!!! The one with the yellow ears is my favourite. I still say you should write a crochet pattern for them. I volunteer to be a tester!
That yellow eared one is my fave too! It looks so wise. I will work on a crochet version, I promise, now that most of my sale items are complete.
I wonder if it varies between colourways, because my Twirl didn’t seem to change with solid lines like that – it was much more of a fade.
I don’t know but I have a second cake so I will find out. It might make a difference between crochet and knit stitches as well. I am using a corner to corner stitch pattern and that may make the colour changes more abrupt between the blocks. It did appear noticeable though when a new ply was added in a lighter colour. I am using Hobbii Twister which may be different from Twirl too.