Friday Inspiration Warming Your Neck

What is your Favourite Neck Warming Pattern?

I really enjoyed knitting the Montego Bay Scarf by Amy R Singer

Do you have a Favourite FO?
Forest Canopy Shawl by Susan Lawernce- this was made for my holidays and the first time I had attempted a shawl.

Is there a style of neck warmer you particularly like?

Clapotis by Kate Gilbert

Book Meme

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Post your list so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen (love,love,love this)

2 The Lord Of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (never read any of them but have watched the films)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

8 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit -JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (read as a child, still have the original book)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis(same as number 33)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement-Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick-Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula- Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes from a Small Island-Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte's Web- EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection- Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down-Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice- Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Friday Inspiration-Warming your hands

I haven't made very many mittens, although I do have quite a few pattern books for sourcing (I really just need to pick a pattern and stick with it haha).

This is one of the books in my collectionand also

So, what is your favourite winter warmer for your hands?

I do have to confess I love the Squirrel pattern gloves as seen on the UK Swap blog and have wanted to make them for a very long time but can't justify making them for me when I have so many things to make for others, i.e. Snowman Mittens by Jean Gifford for my Niece.

Do you have a favourite pattern or finished object?

I love these Handshmeichler by Wollmeise


and also Cupcake Fingerless Mitts by Karen Neal.

What is your favourite yarn for gloves/mittens/handwarmers?

Anything wool or a wool mix (not acrylic though yeuck)

Are there any patterns out there you would love to own?

I'm having a hard enough time trying to get through my queue on Ravelry (my O/H also sniggers at how much time I spend browsing for knitting patterns)

Or do you already have a winter warmer and you would like some mittens/gloves/handwarmers to match?

This sounds really sad but I spend so much time knitting for everyone else, I haven't actually knitted anything for myself for along time :( haha

Merry Christmas!

UK SWAP - Round 3 Questionnaire

Handmade Item Swap
What kind of items are you interested in receiving? Scarf, gloves,socks or shawl.
Do you knit, crochet, or both? Both
What is your favourite colour? Red and purples
What is your least favourite colour? Blue or greens
What’s your style? (elegant, traditional, glamourous, girly, natural, sporty, outgoing, etc.) Elegant and girly but not over the top twee.
Do you have a favourite type of fiber or brand of yarn? Jaggerspun Zephyr Yarn
Do you have a least favourite type of yarn? Hate anything acrylic or scratchy yarn
Do you do any other crafts? Glasspainting , sewing, baking and drawing.
Are there any knitting accessories you are interested in receiving? Buttons, Dpns anything really as these items are all useful.
What do you like to eat? Chocolate, crisps, jams (especially with butter) and biscuits.
Any allergies/preferences (fiber-wise or treat-wise)? Allergic to lanolin based cream, mohair and angora (makes me itch and my eyes stream)
Anything we missed that you’d like your partner to know? Nope don't think so! :)