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For the birthday girl

At Christmas, when I was suffering from a severe case of thumbyitis, I couldn't for the life of me get the arms and legs on my Mini Moopy bunnies, designed by Moopy & Me, to turn out.  I finally got down to it today, in antipation of a little girl's birthday. Which was in fact today, but you know what, I was okay with skipping the trip to Topsy-Turvy Land (I kid you not. Topysy-Turvy Land. Remember what I said about being broody?  It's nicely counterbalanced by the thought of spending a day at an amusement park with seventeen three- and four-year-olds.)  I'll make a special visit tomorrow instead.

There's one bunny for the birthday girl and another for her little sister - though I'm a little concerned that Bunny No 1 has a severe case of clubfoot.  Hey, will a four-year-old notice - actually yeah, she probably will. But I do like their multicoloured backs, they're made from spare patchwork squares.  I altered the design a little, and added in a hint of a smile.

The other pressie is my first real attempt at freezer paper stencilling, along with a little hand embellishment. It may get some beading before it gets wrapped too...

There's three knitting WIPs ongoing at the moment: the tanktop, the Louisa Harding mittens and a pair of toe down socks, because just as I was saying at knitting last week that I'd attempt the toe-downs, Pauline magically produced a pattern from her bag like a rabbit out of a hat.  I think I might be making a bit of a bit of a mess of the first one (slightly curiously shaped at the moment - it's working, kind of, possibly, but in fact looks a bit like it's for the clubfoot bunny above) but to quote the Beautiful South, I'll carry on regardless.  Mainly because my feet are so disgustingly cold at the moment, and not only deserve to be toasty, but in lieu of a much needed pedicure should really be covered up.  Also the tanktop may be ooh, a size or three too big but again, I'll keep going.  And block it very gently...

Finally, look at this bundle of absolute gorgeousness!  Helen went to NYC on a flying visit and was brave enough to ask at knitting one evening whether she could get anything for any of us...So I contributed to the murder of her credit card.  My brother has a stash of FQs for me too, from Colorado.  So I promise once it arrives, I will actually cut into some of this stuff.  Just too many decisions about how to do the quilt.  Alternating pattern with cream squares, random scrappyness, log cabin, something like this Denyse Schmidt - I have option paralysis.

In other news:  a second interview with the same company which went ok, waiting to hear what they think next week.  Also loads more freelancing.  Ironic that I'm getting busy now...

Come on, you know you want to...

The Flibbertygibbet Fabric Swap - Round 2!

As the swap seems to have gone swimmingly, with most people having received both packages and just a few still in transit (and one missing which is being rectified) , we're going to do it again!  You can see some of the swag here and here and here and here and if Blogger was cooperating I'd be able to show you more.  Oh, and there's the Flickr group too.

Hopefully lots of you will participate again, and I know that there are a few people who missed out in January who said they'd like to play this time around. 

What:
Send three co-ordinating strips of 100% cotton fabric, 10 cm/4 inches wide, cut from selvedge to selvedge which will be between 102-112cms/40-44 inches.  It would be nice to let your swap partner know whether the fabrics are prewashed or not. Check your partner's profile page to get a little more info about them and their tastes, plus there'll be a list of participants' blogs, where applicable, on here.  But otherwise it's a Forrest Gump swap, you never know what you're gonna get, so don't be too prescriptive.

Extras are optional but of course always welcome, if you look at the Flickr group you'll see the sorts of things that people sent last time if you're so inclined.

How:
Although it was fun drawing all the names out of a hat (ok, a Liberty bag) last time, I did end up switching some around so that you received packages from different people than you were sending to and then got my little self all confused.  So we're going to do it as a private swap on Swap-bot and in order to join, you need to email me for the link and password. You will also need to sign up for a Swap-bot account if you don't have one already - it's free.

When:
Sign-ups are open now, and will close on the 1st March, which is when you get the addresses of your swap partners, and your packages should be winging their way to the lucky recipients by the 20th of March.

What else:
Please get proof of postage, insurance is optional. Enjoy!

 

PS Can anyone help me to make a button for it? Can't remember how I did it last time!