Summer socks

A bit late in the season I know, but this week I've finished some socks for my husband. He loves his hand-knitted socks but, being wool, he finds them too hot in the summer, so I've knitted these in a bamboo yarn so they are cooler.  And yay! they fit, no problems with stretching round the heel.

Also it was his birthday this week. Sadly my cakemaking skills are not up to my daughter's, but there we are.

The planets came ready-printed on rice paper, but at least I can cut a reasonable circle.

And I was quite chuffed with my bread for Sunday tea too.

Might have to go and eat another roll - after all it is always best fresh.

Decorative mending

This week I used some embroidery as a mending technique.  My daughter had managed to rip her leather jacket and it has sat in the craft room for ages whilst I decided what to do for it.  I saw a link on pinterest and and thought I might as well go for it as the jacket was unwearable as it was.  Here is the actual mend

I then added some embroidery to make it look more deliberate. I've since discovered that visible mending is a thing and I'm wondering if I should have left it at the mend, but it is done now.

I just wish I had taken a photo of the rip before I did the mend as it was pretty spectacular.

Also this week I finished a little doodle stitch that I did as I had no other embroidery on the go.

Pebble Art

This week I finally got round to trying something I've been meaning to do for some while - pebble and seaglass art.

I'm not too happy with my painted background, but I was afraid the clear glass wouldn't show up.
To be fair, with my past experience with painting I could have seen this coming.  I think I'll stick to plain canvasses in the future. I think I'' try some more though.

Bicycle socks

Well, last week I didn't manage to post anything at all.  On the plus side all meals at camp went out on time and were well received.

This week I managed to finish a pair of socks for my No1 Son-in-law.  I started them some years ago, but the initial concept became redundant when he was made redundant from his job.  It has taken me a long time to decide what to do instead, but he has recently taken up cycling so the replacement idea was born.

Mind you, next time I think Swiss Darning is a good idea tie my hands behind my back and take away my darning needle!  I originally did the bikes in colourwork but the floats wouldn't give enough to stretch round the heel when putting the sock on, so Swiss darning it was. Did I mention I hate Swiss darning?

And for the record the colourwork motif before it was frogged.

Hopefully the next pair will break the cycle of frogging socks.