Craftwise I’ve been quite productive lately and this is a post dedicated to the fruits of my labors of the last month or so. The first finished object is, once again, a scarf. It’s a pattern I tried before, but I never found a yarn/needle-size combination that seemed to please me. I had some Patons SWS in Natural Plum in my stash for ages but it was bespoken to the Danica. But I only recently acquired a pair of 8mm needles. It wasn’t untill I finally gave up on ever completing a half decent Danica that I combined the SWS with these perfectly sized needles. It only took me two skeins (and two days!) to complete My So Called Scarf!

I knit the second project, Sheldon once before, but ended up giving him away. It struck me however that this green turtle would fit perfectly in our nursery which has a green theme. I still had enough anonymous green cotton left after completing the older brother, Stoffel to make a second turtle who is now called Schildje. He’s named after a real life turtle M. once owned. Schildje has a pointier head than Stoffel though, I don’t really know how that came to be. Oh and Schildje has eyes, Stoffel didn’t when I last saw him. Schildje is very lucky to have eyes actually; I almost gave up on them and the whole project after I had place them on his behind by accident and couldn’t get them off. Thankfully doctor M. was willing to lend me a hand there.

Last is this cute Cupcake I completed this morning. A sweet little time killer! I wanted to make more but sewing on the “sprinkles” (actually they’re tiny buttons) took more time than I had hoped, so there’s only one for now.