FO: Paintbrush holder

It's always a mad scramble at the end of watercolour class to get everything packed away quickly, and I'm loathe to wrap wet paintbrushes in plastic as they won't dry very quickly. I had some leftover material, so came up with this last night! Now I have an excuse to buy more paintbrushes too, ha! It'd look better if I'd had time to iron it, but not bad for 45 minutes work! :)

Original idea was from here, though I just made mine to suit the fabric I had available. I didn't have any elastic handy so used twill tape. I got the brush pockets straight by marking 40mm on my sewing machine and just kept on sewing :)

Current mood: chuffed

FO: King Cole Bamboozle cardigan

I'm not totally happy with the way the sleeve heads fit into the armscye, but having worked on this on and off since 2015 I am done! I noticed that nobody else seems to have complete this cardigan on Ravelry, which is probably an indication of the nefarious nature of this pretty yarn. The pretty buttons are from McAnaraks, picked up at the last time I went to Woolfest.





For some reason this year, start-itis (the burning urge to cast on more projects, whilst ignoring WIPs) hasn't happened - I seem in the mood to finish off existing projects. Have now recommenced working on Blusa Queen (an intricate crochet cardigan).

And just in case people are wondering what I've been up to instead of knitting, I've been dabbling in watercolours. These three are my favourites so far:







We've so far been tracing other work to understand how to plan painting it, so I can take no credit for the actual designs. Next term I think we're going to start working on our own designs. I'm enjoying it even if my results are less than stellar.

Current mood: thoughtful