Knitting - WIPs on Wednesday

I have had a request for knitted flowers.  Having never knitted flowers other than embellishments this is a first for me.  I am making up samples so that the recipient can decide which they prefer.  I was amazed how many flower patterns there are out there.  I found some great patterns on ODDknits today, which I have printed off and plan to make an example of each.

The samples below were found on Ravelry.

Currently they are on bamboo sticks.  But I have ordered some covered wires so that they can be positioned.  The centres are from a necklace I bought in the charity shop for £1, they would need to be sorted to remove the hole but as a sample they are fine. So if you know anywhere to buy beads with just one hole let me know.

My other WIP is obvious, details of pattern below

The ten stitch is still languishing in my basket.  So thats it for today

Knitting - all in a day

Yesterday, was a public holiday.  Time to do what you want.  Unfortunately, I went down with the "family sickness bug" in the early hours of Monday morning, so spent the day on the sofa in the barn with some knitting, mint tea and dry crackers.  It was a productive knitting day.  I chose an Aran weight project which would knit up fast, though I hadn't actually expected it to be quite so quick.

We listened to Dark Fire by C J Sansom - one of the Shardlake series - very good especially when read by Anton Lesser just love his voice.

Pattern -  Ribbed Baby Cardigan by Debbie Bliss - link to FOC pattern.  Only modification I made was to add a buttonhole rather than use a press stud

Yarn - Kirkton House Craft - Rustic Aran - from Aldi - colourway Grape

Button - from  Granny's button tin -  I have dipped into this tin many times over the years since Peter's grandmother gave me her button tin.  The boys love going through it and finding "treasure"