No, sorry, I haven’t suddenly moved into a log cabin in the woods, although the idea is rather appealing, especially with Christmas on the horizon! I’ve just been creating something a little different, which I shall share with you in a moment.
I hope you’ve all had a creative week, and haven’t been suffering from too many winter chills if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. I have now regained most of my voice and am no longer getting baffled looks from Higgins who obviously wondered why he should take any notice at that funny croaky noise. Yesterday was grey and soggy, but ended like this…
which was most certainly a ‘Shepherd’s Delight’ as today is glorious.
I came home from the Farmers’ Market with some lovely local veggies …
which, together with a mixed pack of game (vegetarians look away now) has been turned into a massive pot of casserole which I hope will keep me going for most of the week. I do appreciate being able to ‘Eat Local’ and while not everyone would want to eat rabbit, pigeon, pheasant etc, at least they had a happy existence as nature intended before ending up in the pot. And there has to be some compensation for listening to guns going off most of the day in the surrounding fields. The joys of country living!
I mentioned last week I have had some knitting on the go and I’ve just finished it and turned into a cushion. I do like cushions, and the fact that I can’t actually put them on the sofa because I also have a small four-legged beast which chews the corners off (see this post and this one) doesn’t stop me making them. I was just dozing off the other evening when an idea dropped into my head of a project which would be perfect for the Planet Penny Cotton and the next morning sent me off to raid the book shelves for the book I knew would help me achieve it.
I’ve had this book since it came out in 2006 when I found it extremely hard to find brightly coloured cotton so now is the perfect time to revisit it. (It’s still available, just click on the photo) But now I can make the log cabin of my dreams, in rainbow colour yarn!
The log cabin knitting in the book is in garter stitch, which works well as it emphasises the directional nature of the knitting, but I do love moss stitch, the textural look and feel.
It’s now a cushion so I’ve tried it out on my wicker chair…
the sofa…
and the throw.
I added the cross stitch to the design as it just seemed to need that little extra something. I think it works. And the back? Well, I’ve been treasuring this little beauty for a while and this seemed the perfect place for it…
If you are wondering it’s ‘Island Girls’, an Alexander Henry Fabric from 1999 which I bought when I was at Art School. It really brightens up a November day!
I have this hankering for tassels at the corners, but I suppose it would just make them more enticingly chewable!
Coming soon is another book review. If you saw the first episode of Kirstie Allsop’s new programme ‘Kirstie’s Vintage Home” you will have seen Lisa Comfort demonstrating the art of making a patchwork quilt and I have a copy of Lisa’s new book to tell you about. This is probably a good reason why I should step away from the computer right now and do something about it!
I shall leave you with a link to Handmade Monday…
See you soon….x
