The Alphabet

At the request of my daughter, I designed and made a baby blanket for her friend who wanted the baby’s initials incorporated in the pattern.  This then lead to me writing up and publishing the Hearts Baby Blanket pattern which included my design for the upper case alphabet.  I then decided to come up with a design for the lower case alphabet and I am pleased to offer the charts for both alphabets here: Alphabet – Upper and Lower Case

The pattern for this Hearts Baby Blanket can be found in my Etsy and Ravelry on line shops, see side bar to the right of this post.

Looking back at 2017

On checking my Ravelry patterns – http://www.ravelry.com/designers/sylvia-leake –  I realised I’d managed to design, knit, test knit, photograph, write up and publish 15 new knitting patterns last year!  Starting with ‘A Badger Blanket’ at the beginning of the year, which was actually designed and made at the end of 2016.  So here’s the round up:

A Badger Blanket

 

 

Woolly Snowflakes Hat

Woolly Snowflakes Cowl

Woolly Snowflakes Hat and Woolly Snowflakes Cowl patterns (both Toddler to Adult sizes)

 

Love Cats on a Hat

Prowling Cats Cowl

Floral Flutters Cowl

 

Laurel Baby Booties

Laurel Baby Hat

Laurel Baby Booties and Laurel Baby Hat

 

Snugly Sheep Baby Blanket and Snugly Sheep Cushion Cover

 

 

Woolly Sheep Mittens

Woolly Sheep Cowl and Woolly Sheep Mittens

 

Reindeer Baby Hat (to match my Reindeer Booties pattern designed in 2012!)

Winter Robin Hat (Baby to Adult sizes)

 

 

Textured Diamonds Cowl

Fair Isle/Stranded knitting

I’ve been doing a lot of Fair Isle (stranded) knitting recently and have come up with the following designs.  The written patterns include instructions for knitting flat on two needles with a seam at the back and knitting in the round on a circular needle with no seaming necessary.  The patterns can be found in my online shops – see sidebar.

Love Cats on a Hat

Woolly Snowflakes Hat

Woolly Snowflakes Cowl

Woolly Sheep Hat

 

Raindrops and a knitted chick

The rain stopped for a while, which provided a photo opportunity and some fun for one of the little chicks!

  
      

  

Now if I was a duck, I could also swim

 
Knitted chick from ‘The Chicks’ knitting pattern, find it in my Ravelry or Etsy stores.

Birdie Baubles

I’ve enjoyed having these little chaps out to decorate the Christmas Tree, they’ve appeared in many of my photos over the festive period!  All the birdies are knit from my Seasonal Birdie Baubles pattern, which can be found in my online shops.

Enjoy the photos

 

Owls

 

Robins

 

Gosling

 

Blue Bird

 

Penguin