Just sharing a proud moment. I've continued with the knitting and have made a little set of baby items (booties, hat and snood) which my colleague is giving to her brother when her nephew is born.
They're not perfect; I can tell the casting on is a bit too loose, but they're pretty good for a first attempt!
The sewing up is quite tricky, and I think I need to improve my skills, but it doesn't look too bad.
The hat was such a success that my boyfriend asked me to sew one for him too, so look out for an update on that soon!
I really felt like I'd accomplished something special with this one too, because I got to do something more difficult for the boarder and got good practise with decreasing, and I finished it in a few short days; doing a bit each evening after work.
Front and back of the baby hat.
The snood was a complete experiment as I didn't use a knitting pattern for it. I basically just started knitting a scarf and rather than continue and make it longer, I cast off and sewed the two ends together. It turned out quite nicely.
Inside of the snood.
Outside of snood.
I'm going to keep up with the knitting and will update with new projects as I continue to improve.
Fellow beginner-knitters, putting 30 minutes in to knitting every day really does help, and baby items are perfect practise: small and simple!
First of all, I have to admit that I had some help from my lovely boyfriend for this project, but only because I had never used the wood board and cutter knife before.
We had a run-down mini ironing board and rather than throw it out I decided it would be fun to repurpose it as an inspiration board / notice board.
For this project I needed:
The old ironing board, wood board (I'm not sure of the exact translation of this type of board, in French it's carton-bois, if you know what the proper English translation is, please let me know!), acrylic paint, split pins, a glue gun, super-glue, cork board, sting and mini clothes pegs.
First of all, I traced around the shape of the ironing board frame on the wood board and my boyfriend cut out the shape using a cutter knife.
Next I painted the board with acrylic paint.
Then I made some small slits where I planned to put the split pins through the board. I had to be careful with this part to make sure the split pins would go through the holes in the ironing board at the back.
Once I pushed all the split pins through I glued them down using a glue gun.
Then I cut out the shapes I desired from the cork board using the cutter knife and super-glued them where I wanted on the board.
I found some cute wooden pegs which I painted in different colours, then attached string to the board, tying it through the holes at the back of the ironing board frame, to make it look like mini clothes-drying lines.
To finish my board I printed out inspirational images and wrote inspirational quotes and backed them on to colourful paper. Et voilà! My inspiration board is finished.
