When time allows over the last couple of months I’ve been knitting a cardigan for my lovely goddaughter Evie’s Christmas present.   I promise the art will return but in the meantime you have to put up with my various attempts at knitwear.

Here’s Evie doing the right thing and wearing it while I’m there.

Introducing my first attempt at knitting a piece of clothing, as opposed to accessories… this is a Sirdar pattern for a child of 6 – 12 months, and was a present for my friend Ness’s baby Samson.  If you look at the back you can see how many errors I had to fix but overall I’m pleased!  I really want to make a big one for me.

Here’s Sam in a maelstrom of stripes.

Hello – here’s a little bag I made my mother last week, for her to keep her iPod in.  The lovely blue fabric is from a piece of Liberty material I saw in the cut-offs basket in our local fabric shop.  This is my first attempt at a bag – it’s fun working out how to do the pull-ties and the lining.  She thought the ribbon/bead combination looked a bit like mistletoe..

It’s a whippet!  I’m told that I’ve managed to create a creature that doesn’t look entirely like any one member of the animal kingdom.  I also think it has an air of the evil penguin in Wallace & Gromit about it.  I don’t care; as my first attempt at anything more than a hamster in amigurumi, I am proud.  Thanks to June Gilbank for the patterns.

The amigurumi obsession continues.. what do you think this is going to be?

Here’s an apron I made from a Liverpool FC shirt for my boyfriend’s birthday.  I bought a cheap 2nd hand shirt off eBay and converted it in rather haphazard fashion into an apron.  It has these gorgeous double-sided velvet ties.  It went down well – I thought he needed a manly apron to cook in.

This is the sketchbook I made for my mother; I’ve meant to post this for ages.  As with the other sketchbook I made for myself, it has a fabric cover and is filled with Fabriano 5 Liscia (hot-pressed) 210gsm 50% cotton paper.  All the posts from South America (see category to the right) were drawn/painted on this paper.  As you might be able to tell, it takes watercolours amazingly – nothing comes through the other side and after a couple of days the page on which you painted becomes flat again.  If you’d like one made for you, drop me a line.  These ones are 189mm/7.4″ x 122mm/4.8″, but you can have any size or fabric you want..

I have got a bit into knitting.  Here are a pair of leg warmers plus pom-poms…

And here is my friend for whom I made them – deciding instead to use them as arm warmers.