Betty's Bag (The Ladies Circle)

     At last I have finished my knitting bag.  I had a lot of wool left from my blanket so I thought I would use it for my bag.  I love this pattern, I used to make little hats for my girls in this pattern when they were tiny, they looked so cute in them. I hope you like it.

Christine's Bag (The Ladies Circle)

     So, here is my latest project, a bag.  For some reason it took me a while to make, I was procrastinating when I had to put the lining in, I thought it was going to be a difficult job so I kept putting it off.  Then a couple of days ago I knew I had to get on with it, so once I started sewing the inside into the bag it was a lot easier than I imagined and I did it very quickly, I wasted a lot of time for nothing.  But now it's done and I'm very pleased with it.  I used two wools together and when knitted up it became very thick, it feels nice and I used ivory handles, in all it doesn't look too bad.

Suzy's Bag (The Ladies Circle)

     There were so many beautiful and intriguing photos of bags on the internet, but unfortunately they were either too difficult to do or didn't come with a pattern.  So I decided to make a simple little clutch and use an interesting trim to bring it to life.  I have wanted to do the crocodile stitch for a long time but did not have the patience to learn.  Using a Youtube tutorial video (rewinding and pausing a hundred times) I finally understood the stitch and in the end found it a joy to crochet.  I sewed craft felt to the inside of the clutch so things would not get snagged on the yarn and attached a magnetic clasp for added protection.  I lastly placed a ribbon bow on the front for an extra touch of girlyness.

Kathleen's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

My Little Ballerina.

Kathleen.

Rose-Ann's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

     My name is Blue bear.  I don't think anyone will love me as I'm not very handsome.  I'm also homeless.
Rose-Ann.

Betty's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

     Here are my little hedgehogs.  I enjoyed doing them, if I had time I would have done more.  Did you notice the B and B on the bibs?  Wait for it...they stand for Betty and Billy.
Betty.

Christine's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

     The project for the Ladies Circle was to knit or crochet a stuffed toy, so I chose these adorable hedgehogs.  At first I was going to knit my old faithful, A Teddy Bear, but then I looked at some patterns and came across the hedgehog and instantly knew I wanted to do them.  They were extremely easy to knit and took very little time, that was why I knitted a few of them and in different colours.  They already have a home to go to, the children I take care of and one or two of their friends wanted one, so bye bye hedgehogs, it was fun making you.
Christine.

Amy's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

     Here is a little toy snake I knitted myself, I am very proud of it as I am only 11 years old and it is the first toy I ever made.  It started off as a scarf and my Grandma said it could be turned into a snake.  She told me what to do and here is the result.  I hope you all like it.
Amy.

Suzy's Stuffed Toy (The Ladies Circle)

     When I found out our new project was to be a soft toy, the first thing that popped into my mind was a plump little piggy.  As you can see plump little piggy became Sheena the sheep.  I used a video tutorial on how to make a mouse, changing a few things to make it more sheep appropriate.  Despite having to unravel many times I really enjoyed creating Sheena.
Suzy.

Betty's Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

     At last my blanket is finished what a roller coaster that was.  To start off my wool was four days late in coming, then I had visitors for ten days so no knitting got done.  Then the following week my visitors came back for another three days so again no knitting done.  But to top it all when I started sewing it together I kept finding mistakes.  So out it comes "Sorted".  Would you believe it the more I was sewing the more mistakes I was making, I nearly gave up as it was doing my head in.  I think I was making mistakes because I was rushing it as everyone was finished but me, plus I was tired.  But I got there in the end.  So here is my finished blanket, I hope you all like it.  Can't wait for the next project. xxx
By Betty

Aileen's Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

     Here is my blanket, what a mess huh!  I didn't enjoy this project and I don't like it.  I think it's off to the charity shop very soon : )

By Aileen

Christine's Blanket "The Nightmare Blanket" (The Ladies Circle)

Some of my squares.

 A trial run.

My big pile of squares.

Lots to do.

Don't look too closely.

The nightmare blanket.

     Well, it's finished, the blanket that is, almost my life as it took up all my energy, it was stressful and boring all at the same time.  

     I started off with a different pattern and that was sooooo long and tedious, so I gave that up and decided to go with small squares instead.  Some I crocheted which made it a wee bit quicker as crochet is very quick, then it was coming along nicely, but then I knew I needed a million squares and that's when it got to be boring.  But I was excited when I was on my last square.  Yippee!

     Then it came time to sew it all together, ugh, double ugh!  I couldn't quite get into the groove of sewing it together, then I took a look at it and thought if I turn it this way it may be easier and that's exactly what I did and it was very easy.  But that was only going one way, now I had to sew down the way to join it altogether, then I had an idea, maybe I should crochet it, so I did and it gave it another look.

     In the end I was very pleased with it but I won't be in any hurry to make another patchwork blanket I can tell you that.

By Christine

Rose-Ann's Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

     I knitted this baby blanket with love for my new grandchild who will be born at the end of April.  From Grandma xx.

By Rose-Anne

Kathleen's Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

     Here is my patch-work blanket, I am reasonably pleased with the final outcome. But if I'm honest I found it a chore and very difficult to keep up the interest in making it.
By Kathleen

Heathers Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

      I went shopping with my mom (NOT a knitter) at Nancy O's, our local yarn shop. My mom admired this very lacy spirally scarf in a Wedgewood blue-type color. Not her normal kind of scarf OR color. But I took the hint and after I dropped her home, I scurried back to the yarn shop to buy the yarn and the pattern. The yarn was this lovely kid mohair/silk blend, and wouldn't you know the shop was already sold out and had to order it. It wasn't to come in until the 17th (ack!) but they swore this scarf was "one skein, one hour," so I tried not to panic. The yarn came in and I picked it up Saturday (the 18th?). My mom (who the scarf is FOR) was at my house all day and I had to wait for her to leave before bringing out the knitting and getting started. I was getting antsier and antsier. FINALLY it was time. I looked at the yarn in consternation. It was a lacy tube. How would I even cast on? I looked at the pattern in horror. It made absolutely no sense. Make two stitches 5 cm apart and that's the whole row? Depressed and angry, I logged on to Rowan.com, watched a tutorial, started knitting and sure enough...had made the whole scarf in one hour! Amazing! And I think it's lovely!! And the best part was...when I registered (for free) at Rowan, they asked if I was part of a knitting group or circle....I could answer "yes"!!

By Heather

Michelles Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

     I am not a knitter I have been trying for years with the help of my Mum but I just can't do it.  So I thought I would make a scarf on the knitting loom and here is the result. I was so pleased with it that I would like to make another one.

By Michelle

Kathleens Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

     This is my scarf, feel quite proud for my first attempt.

By Kathleen Murchie

Aileens Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

     This was a very fast scarf to knit.  I like the way it sits neatly around my neck or Conroys neck.  I'm looking forward to hearing what our teacher has in store for our next project.  Have a lovely Christmas everyone.

By Aileen Doyle

My Ugly Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

     This scarf caused me a lot of grief, here is how it went.

     My friend asked me to make her a scarf, she also picked the colour Rust (which is what I thought it was).  I decided to do a cable stitch to make it look pretty, so I started the scarf, did a few inches then started to make mistakes, I wasn't quite sure of the cable stitch yet, anyway needless to say I ripped it out about 5 times and was getting very frustrated.  So after I had quite a few inches done I showed it to my friend Alcina (yes, I am making sure everyone see's her name, so no one will knit for her hahaha) and would you believe she had the nerve to tell me it wasn't the colour she wanted, that it wasn't rust and she did not want that kind of scarf, I was set to blow, I argued with her that when she asked me to make her a scarf, this is what she chose and she flat out denied it.  Then she continues to show me scarves that she likes and asked me can I knit her this one or that one, well, I just flat out said NO and told her she is not getting it, scarf anyone?

     Anyway, I continued to knit and knit and knit and dropped stitches,and forgot what row I was on and ripped out and did it again and continued to knit hating every minute of this scarf, and to top it all, it kept curling inwards,i wish i had curled inwards.

      Here is the finished product, just don't let me see it again.

By Christine Neary

Collar Scarf (The Ladies Circle)

     My last project for The Ladies Circle happened to be a 14 foot long scarf, so I decided to go in the opposite direction and make a collar scarf.  I crochet a ridge stitch using some left over chunky yarn; however, because the ridge stitch takes up a lot of yarn, I ran out half way through my project and was forced to buy another ball.  Sam picked out the large wooden buttons for me from her store and with the help of Youtube made my first item that contained working buttons...YAY!

By Suzy Neary