Planet Ruby Starrs

 oooh and the cardigan - I got very obsessed with knitting  and just finished the cardi in record time - it was meant to take me all winter!! Its a bit of a rip off of one I saw in a famous shop and thought I'll knit that using up stash - I really didn't like the pink block when I had finished it so I added using hand applique the Bowes Chicken I had drawn and printed on some fabric - it really finishes it off  

I'm very restless at the  moment - I think its the lock down but although I'm feeling quite creative I can't quite settle on any one thing to do.  I started to organise  y studio space and ended up sorting through lots of stuff I had forgotten about and now the space looks worst than ever - it was so bad that yesterday I just shut the door and walked away - 2 hours later there was a huge bang and when I looked everything had fallen over - what a mess!!!!! I have just shut the door again - its a quiet sunday exercise!  So - I have some weaving on the go - very pleased with myself I have managed to warp up my loom pretty much by myself - I'm going to a weaving class in normal times but this has been halted due to lock down but the loom in my own so I was able to bring it home - Under guidance I got the first bit done in class and with further assistance through messages I have managed to finish it!! Its not the first time I've put a warp on but its a complicated proce...

This weeks UFO finished.... I started this knitting in about 1998 - it was going to be a fringed coat - Why I have no idea, and somewhere as I had knitted up the back, divided for arm holes, and was about to go over the top and back down again I obviously decided I didn't like it so much.  It was as patterned above and then I had done circular flower type blobs with embroidered stems - it wasn't looking good!!  I think I was trying to rescue something I just hadn't thought through, so it got bundled away needles wool and all and stashed until I was looking for wool to knit an Icelandic jumper and it re- emerged... I kept revisiting it and it traveled through our various house moves... Finally almost twenty years later I had another look at it.  The dimensions were wrong, as it had been intended to be a coat the back was very wide - too wide for a cardigan or jumper back but not wide enough for a back and front!!! In the end I unpicked the embroidery and I pull...