Yarn purchases!
Went to Tapestry Craft yesterday to get these yarns… That’s Debbie Bliss Cashmerino in olive colour for making another pair of Fetching, this time for me, and the black ones are Grinasco Bambi, for making Serrano from Knitty. I’ve been wanting a lacy cardigan for a long time, and Serrano looks very appealing to me.
I must say that the colour, black, is a rather unadventurous choice for me. I tend to wear dark colours a lot, even though I actually like just about any colour in the spectrum. I had considered other colours, just to have something different. I spent ages and ages in front of the Grinasco Bambi shelf, trying to decide on a colour. But in the end I settled on black. Oh well, hopefully that will mean that I’ll get to wear it a lot. Black is still the new black, right??
On the way home, I popped in to Dymocks to check out their crafts books section. And oh my do they have a lot of great books there! I could spend hours there just browsing through them. I bought this book:
It’s Toys to Sew by Claire Garland, the author of Knitted Babes. It has patterns for dolls along similar vein to Knitted Babes — basic doll patterns (two boys and two girls) with sets of clothing items to mix and match, except that in this book the dolls are sewn as opposed to knitted. Which is great as I’ve been wanting to sew more. There are also many other adorable toys in the book — patchwork crocodile, turtle, spotty pull-along elephant, and even a tea set! The toys are sooo cute and I want to make so many of them! (Interestingly, when I got home and looked at Amazon US’s page for this book, the book is not released yet in the US. And I got it here for less than fifteen bucks! I love it when I get a good bargain…) I have pictures of some pages from the book here, if anyone’s interested.
Comments
Thanks for sharing so many pictures from the book. I like that they provide patterns for the clothes in addition to the dolls. This one looks like lots of fun. Only 17 days till I can get my hands on it!
No matter how ,any skeins I have in my stash I am always little envy on other people purchase! Can’t help myself!
BTW, what has happened to your Mom’s cardi?
Oh, I picked up that book too! Love it(and the price, woohoo!!!) I don’t have knitted babes, but this book is fab. If I could find my way back to my sewing desk (lost under yarn stash and numerous patterns etc) I’d love to whip up the croc and the elephant!
ooh, have fun with the grignasco bambi. That is probably my very favourite yarn – not flashy or even very much talked about, but a beautiful standard yarn in such a good range of colours. Every time I’m in TC I stop and gaze at all the lovely colours. In fact, I have a cardigan’s worth of black sitting in my stash – a project gone wrong that needs to be remade. You might just inspire me to get back into that project!
That book looks like a lot of fun – those dinosaurs are really cute. I love handmade toys!