CrumpArt

I have one month of school holidays left. That means I’ve been on holidays for three whole months. I feel like I’ve barely had a break at all, and I have so many things left to finish before I go back…

I have made some headway though.

I finished these awesome, awesome, wonderfully comfortable pants for work the other night. We have to wear all black even behind the scenes now, and even though I’m from Melbourne, I have very little black in my wardrobe. Some simple fisherman style pants seemed the way to go. These are made from the Burda pattern 8315.

I love them very, very much and have plans to make several more pairs to wear to school.

For mindless knitting (my favourite kind — I use knitting as a way of zoning out) I’ve been working on Stefanie Japel’s Cozy V-Neck Sweater, re-mathematised to be made from stash DK weight instead of the chunkier weight the pattern calls for. One of the great things about top-down raglans knit in the round is that you can try them on for size during the knitting. I’ve started the ribbing for this now, and am about 5cm into it. I’ve put it aside for the minute because the yarn comes in massive 200 metre skeins, which I have to wind by hand into balls because I have no swift or ball winder (hint hint), and I didn’t have time the other day to prepare another skein before leaving the house. So I picked up this.

Free yarn.

20 balls of free yarn.

20 balls of the most beautiful, lovely, squishy, soft, green free yarn.

It was a thank you gift for attending an ideas/information night put on by Patons. I was going for the fun. I had no idea there would be free yarn. Score! It’s turning into Stefanie’s Puff-Sleeved Feminine Cardigan.

And finally, the birthday presents have already started rolling in! And this one is the best kind of present anyone can give me. A friend needed to buy a gift for someone else, so they specifically bought something from my Etsy store as a gift to me. Totally awesome and thoughtful and kind and lovely.

I sent this off to the unsuspecting recipient today.