Saturday, July 18, 2009

DIY (Done It! YES!)

I've always wanted a swift. I usually end up looping my skeins, either around the knobs on my chest of drawers or the legs of an upturned chair. Neither are that great really....

Konnex are quite fab aren't they?...DH has promised to make a wooden one now lol!







This the progress of Mams cardy. I managed to get the fronts done but i'm definitely not going to have enough yarn for the sleeves - bugger! I have one 50g ball left and haven't started the bands yet.
I've decided to do the bands with the remaining ball and think of something to do with the sleeves...they are going to be very very short and Mam will have a lovely waistcoat cum gilet type of thing (hopefully).








And here's how a Doily becomes a hotpad/scrubbie and a little more useful than a Doily...I got the inspiration from frustration (I couldn't work out the origami hotpad for the life of me, now I sort of have one.)

Can I do it? well i'll give it a go...;)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now I'm sorry we gave away all of DS's K-nex.

I also saw where you can make a swift from Tinker Toys, but we don't have any of those anymore either.

The cardi sure is a pretty color. Hope you can get more to finish the sleeves.

Teena in Toronto said...

Gorgeous!

Happy blogoversary!

miranda said...

Happy blogoversary, I saw we share the same one!!

lesley said...

i love the doily idea! how neat!

rubbishknitter said...

that's totally brilliant - does it seriously work as a swift?!