Missing...

I guess I've been a bit lax in the blog writing area these last couple of weeks. Only one reason for this...I've been a bit busy! 

One thing that has taken up my time is making my annual donation to the parish Art and Craft Show. Each year I make a knitted throw, enter it, and if it sells, I forgo the 75% share of the proceeds and donate the lot to the parish funds. This makes up for the many times each year that I don't really help that much at Parish fundraising. (I rarely bake these days for example)

This year though, I knitted 2 throws...one to sell and one to raffle! Both are mohair and both use a simple slip stitch pattern and both were fun to knit!

The first one finished was the one to be raffled so we could pre-sell tickets...I called this one 'Memories of Marge' in honour of an elderly parishioner who passed away late last year. She had purchased my donated throw last year as well as one I made about 3 years ago.

My labels;which are from Moira Wallis in Melbourne...I last bought labels in 2006 and in case Moira is retired as I've bought her labels for 20 years or so, I have another label maker's name from Shez.

And yesterday I handed over the second rug which will be arranged on display ready for a buyer at this weekend's Art Show! 

This photo shows the back of the throw...it's just 'resting' after a light blocking...

This one I've named ' No Rhyme or Reason' as it is just random colours. 

Regular readers will notice that 'random' in this case means many of my favourite colours! :-)

More posts soon on all the other busy things I've been up to!

FNSI...

Or in my case, Friday Night Knit In :-)....

It's that time of year again when I race to finish a knitted throw to donate to the Parish Art and Craft Show. This event is always on the first weekend of July, so it's getting close. This year I've suggested to the organisers that they might like to raffle the throw instead of my setting a price and selling it at the show. 

Any way, I'm very close to finishing the knitting and had hoped to finish last night...that was too ambitious and I still have 6 more stripes, plus a upper border to knit. So maybe tomorrow it will be finished...in plenty of time!

Holding it up by the circular knitting needle...

Holding it out, to show more of the width...

Holding it sideways...

The next photo shows the colours more clearly...

So a bit more knitting, some blocking, some fringing, a sewn on label and a tag label to be done and then it will be finished. The 'Memories of Marge' throw, the 2014 donation, will be ready :-)