• Fresh Water Pearl Set
• Rainbow Spot Bracelet
• Tom and Alison's Wedding Card
• Bella Doll

• "The Words Between Us" Poetry Collection
• Twilight Bracelet
• Bookclub Cupcakes
• Hydrangea Scarf

• Pink Bead Bracelet
• Beth's Journal Prompt Jar

• none

• Knitting Needle Roll
• Peekaboo Mittens

• Learn How To Cube
• Dinosaur Bones
• Emily's Flowers

• Renae's Bear Scarf
• Flyaway Necklace
• Wrap with Love squares

August

• Tree Embroidery
• Renae's DS Case

September

• Cards
• Hannah's Birthday Card
• Birthday Cards
• School Scarf
• X-Ray tote bag

October

• Fairy Wish Necklace
• 2009 Diary
• Baby Blanket
• Crocheted Monkey

November

• Fairy costume
• Fairy beads
• Elphaba beads

December

• January #2
  

I wanted a pair of mittens for winter this year, mainly I think because I was quite enamoured with the Latvian mittens I saw in the Yarn Harlot’s archives. The colours, the patterns, they were just so beautiful.

Problem was, though, with my new found money-less-ness (my $100 car service turned into something much bigger… *sob*) I was restricted to working completely out of my stash. And unfortunately for me, my stash did NOT include pretty fingering weight yarn in a vast array of colours.

I finally settled (more out of frustration than anything else) on the Peekaboo Mittens pattern (free Ravelry download) and rummaged through my wool bags to come up with two balls of Patons’ Jet wool. It’s a really pretty variegated colour and it has a nice light fuzz to it (is this because it’s 30% alpaca? I’m not sure).

I’ve knitted up the first mitten – and yes, I know there’s a mistake, but it didn’t register till I’d finished, I’ll have to go back and fix it – and CO the second.

It was a very easy knit, it only took me a few hours to knit up the first one, all of which was done while watching Ellen, so there was no real need for concentration, either.

Ever since I was a little girl my mother has had certain names for me. She’d look over my squirreling tendencies and call me a ‘pack rat’, she’d see me rescue cardboard boxes and coffee tins from the kitchen and call me a ‘hoarder’, and, best of all, when she’d see me swoop in on something pretty or shiny, she’d call me a ‘bowerbird’.

For those not in the know, a bowerbird is an Australian bird who, in an attempt to attract their mate, collects any number of blue shiny objects to take back and decorate their nest… it was an apt description of me then and now.

Now my bowerbird tendencies surface in many forms, but more than anything else in my crafting. While I do enjoy my crafting in it’s various forms, I find that I haven’t had the motivation of late to pick anything up. This blog is my attempt to remedy that… and I’m hoping to entice some friends of mine to play along with me (hint hint).