Jen Arnall-Culliford Knitwear

I've been a-bunting

Not content with just knitting, I've also squeezed in a little bit of sewing. Whoop!

In fact, I've turned into something of a bunting machine, with more than 20m completed in the last month. Not too shabby, I'd say!

Each stretch used 4 fat quarters, and made 20 flags. I then used 7m of bias binding to join them together. All supplies were purchased at Millie Moon (in Frome & Wells) - my awesome local fabric emporium. Bunting is a great sewing project for even newbies to sewing, so I can't claim to have made all of it single-handedly. We're all really pleased with how it looks. :)

Next up will be a humungous quilt that we can all fit under. I just need to find some quiet sewing time. Easier said than done!

FO: Charlie's socks

It has been more than a month since my last blogged, and what a month it has been! There isn't any way to describe it, so I'm going to bustle straight on to the main reason for stopping by here...

I finished a knitting project!! Go me!!

The socks I knitted as a very late birthday present for my sister-in-law are now complete. I didn't remember to photograph them before popping them in the post. I was too busy being amazed that I had actually completed something! So I was more than delighted when she emailed her thanks with this lovely snap of them! Thanks Charlie!

I used Natural Dye Studio Dazzle 4ply in an blue colourway. This is a wonderful yarn to knit with - really bouncy and forgiving in ribbing. I usually struggle with ladders in rib, but these look really neat with no messing around. The pattern is the Oak Ribbed Socks from Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks. Really straight forward no-brain knitting, which was just what was required.

I even found 10 minutes to cast on my next project, which is the Budleigh Socks from Coop Knits Socks. I'm using some green Fyberspates Vivacious 4ply and they are looking fab already. I got 2 more skeins of this yarn for my birthday, so I'm hoping to make a couple of other pairs from the book too.

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