Small Pumpkin

I was looking for a small pumpkin pattern.  Doodled for a while thinking I'd come up with my own... then I happened upon Mark Myers' Apple pattern... and thought it might look good as a pumpkin!

What do you think?

I'm waiting for some plain orange colours.

I placed an order today so hope to get

the new threads in a day or two.

So this is Autumn Spice again.

Another of my favourite Lizbeth colour ways.

This nice pattern is quick to tat, just what I was looking for.  I particularly like the way he made the leaf.  It has interesting curves in it, using the small ring inside to pull the curves in.

I'm also knitting away and have now started on the second pattern repeat.

Best wishes,

Tea Pot and Knitting

I finally got around to purchasing Martha Ess's Tea is for Tatting book.  I had seen many examples of her pretty teapots on various blogs and kept telling myself I'd get her book some day.  Well the day is now!

Here is the first one I've tried:

The thread is Karey Solomon's Upper Atmosphere.

Cool weather is upon us.  This means it's time to get the knitting out.  Last winter I only got so far as casting on and knitting just a few rows of my next knitting project which is something I had wanted to knit for a loooooooong time.  It is Alice Starmore's Flora jacket.  Every time I saw a photo of this jacket, I thought I wanted to knit it someday.  Last year, I finally treated myself and bought the wools.  

Now I shall be torn between tatting and knitting!  But aren't the colours looking amazing?  I just had to show you.

And for some reason, the search bar tool on my blog wasn't working anymore... every time I tried to search for something (I know should be there!), it came up with "no results found".  Very frustrating. So I searched on the web, and replaced the widget with a html/javascript code.  It works.  So if you tried searching my blog before and got no results, it should work now.

Best wishes,