As the weather turned colder, so grey, rainy, windy and miserable, doing some more knitting appealed more and more.
I found a tear in my turquoise sequined tie top, so I mended that before it got any worse. The pale green lightweight hoodie doesn't get worn much - it's my size, but the arms are disproportionately skinny. The last time I wore it, one of the arm seams came apart, so that's now mended too, ready for a glimmer of an idea I have to get more exercise ....
I made a few more tinsel trees for a craft fair that I was too under the weather to go to, in the end. I also finally got my pattern for swirly trees together (although I haven't got it written up and posted on Ravelry and as a tutorial on here - that will have to slip to the continuation of the craft output next year). They come with two options, for an open bottom or a cork/bottle topper bottom.
And knitted (another) pair of socks, this time with a pattern of pine trees on.
I found the tail end of the Cabaret used for the Virus Shawl earlier in the year and decided that it would make a lovely flower, with a few leaves as the yarn shaded to green and red, add beads and a brooch back as a present for my closest friend, (who received the shawl; now she has a matching brooch!)
I made another swirly tree, this time with the off-white Hobbyknit Alpine Spark. I'd used the green colourway when working on the pattern. It, and the red and blue I used for the Fibonacci inspired lounge socks, are a slightly heavyweight DK. The off-white is slightly heavier and stiffer. I also have a ball of a muted blue with a blue metallic thread which I used to try out a crochet shawl pattern, which turned out to be a yarn-eater; the 200g ball wouldn't go far enough, so I frogged it. I then tried it on a lace shawl, but it really didn't suit, so I frogged that too. I suppose it counts as daily creativity, and I might learn something but have nothing to show, or count!
While I was making the swirly trees, I was intrigued by the way the inside of the tree looked. I played a little and found that by not knitting the point of the tree and flattening the knit upside down, it made a stylised rose. So I made a couple of those (patterns and tutorials to come, too) and a few leaves to make them into rose brooches.
So that's it for the year.
6 tinsel trees, 5 swirly trees, 3 flowers, 7 leaves, 2 items mended and a pair of socks.
Create 365 2019 totals:
This batch of things: 24
Cumulative total: 61
A far cry from 365, so I hope to do better next year!
