A Year of Projects - week 9

We returned from our holiday today - we are all feeling very sad!!  All back to school and work this week.
I took loads of stuff to knit with me but did very little.  A little progress on the socks and a few pom poms.

I shall leave you with a few shots of our holiday in Cornwall.

My boys with St Michael s Mount in the background

St Ives - the 4 cousins playing on the sand

My eldest at the owl sanctuary

Some of us at Pendennis Castle for the pirate re-enactment

Have a good week :-)

WIP Wednesday

Now I have finished the test knit I have CO several little projects.  Much as I love knitting sweaters, they take me so long and when I have finished I love to do lots of little things!!  I will blog about my finished test knit but until the pattern is published I will refrain from posting finished pictures.

So without further ado...
First project is a pumpkin hat!!  I want to do some winter hats for the stall in the run up to Xmas, so Halloween is the first event - so pumpkin hats it is!!  I will go on to do some pumpkin coffee cosies.

I have, after procrastinating for over a year, finally CO a pair of socks!  Using Totally Vanilla from Socktopus as my pattern and some left over Mellifera yarn (twist sock in spruce).

And my new obsession - pom poms!!  Actually I can't really classify these as my WIP - I have got my son into it and he makes me one a day at the moment!!  I will be tidying them up but they are to become something for the stall ;-)

So that is my progress on my little projects - we are off on holiday soon so now I have to pack, but I shall be taking the pom pom  makers, socks and maybe the orange yarn - just in case!!

Linking with KCCO this week.

How to ..... Make a simple knitted hair bow!

Again, this really is very simple!!
You will need:
A little yarn in the colour of your choice
Knitting needles size 6 (4mm) if using dk yarn
Darning needle
Plain hair clip/clips

Method
1) CO 6 stitches
2) K6 - repeat for approx 26 rows
3) Sew in the 2/4 ends

4) Pinch the middle of the bow

 5) Wrap the same colour yarn around the middle until it looks 'right'.  (You could knit a little section to sew on around the middle if you choose - I would CO 4 stitches and do 10 rows)






6) Sew a little stitch to hold the wrap in place then sew the bow onto the hair clip by threading the yarn over and under the prongs.

7)  Repeat for the second if making and hey presto bow hair clips!