New unisex Collar

http://www.etsy.com/listing/55431805/unisex-wool-plaid-collar-with-leather

so yesterday in-between knitting up orders, I squeezed in a bit of sewing, A unisex double layered wool plaid collar with leather straps that snap together

I'll be listing it in my odds and sods store later today, during my next tea break, for now i have to start packing up orders, I have a hat to finish, and a mountain of knitting.

Autumn equals busy

Sorry for the lack of posts this week, Autumn has arrived, which thankfully means I'm doubly busy but this means I have to squeeze alot more into my day, whilst other things get sidetracked.

This week I've relisted my Grunge tank, http://www.etsy.com/listing/55225238/grunge-alpaca-beige-tank one of my favourite customers reminded me of this tank the other day, she bought one, and made me wonder why I didn't have it for sale in my store, especially with Autumn knocking on our door.

in other news the unisex black and white scarf sold this week, in my http://www.etsy.com/shop/oddsandsods?ref=seller_info store, this was the last one, the material is now all used up, but I'm planning to make some more later today, from a brown plaid material, hopefully my son will be around later to strike a pose.

and then the news I wanted to share with you today, I'm going to have to postpone until next Wednesday, as the deadline was moved. So I'll be biting my tongue for another week.

This weekends project

So I've been up since 2.30am, as I've a lot todo this weekend, Some I can share with you, whilst another I have to hold my tongue until Wednesday when all will be revealed,

We have a long weekend ahead as Monday is a bank holiday, so tomorrow I'm off to visit my sister over in Devon, which means today and Monday I'll be knitting my fingers raw.

My lovely Girlfriend Renee requested a halter-neck dress using the same net technique as my tank top above, Renee is a singer so I suspect she'll be strutting her stuff on stage sometime in the coming month wearing an iLE AiYE dress, which is pretty exciting for me.

Hopefully she won't mind if I grab a few images of her wearing the finished results, when she pops round next week to collect it.

One nice thing this morning, is, we have sunshine, first time in about a month.

And the WINNER IS....

Di - Spring green hat.

Well done, I'll be posting it out tomorrow, I need to knit it up.;-))

the video of the draw is available here to view.

Click IT a new shade

This week I've added a new shade to my 'click it' collars, this is a gorgeous dusky turquoise, the image doesn't quite show the warmth of this colour, I find it really tricky describing a colour, and with everyone having a different screen resolution, this makes it more difficult share. A handy tool to use is this http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/ I'd match the collar to what this tool describes as polo blue, but who on earth would know what colour polo blue was??

only 2 left in this shade

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54682462/red-firefly-poncho-ltd-edition-2-3-left?ref=v1_other_2

I found this yarn again during my trip to Wales in the summer, it's a discontinued yarn, so pretty hard to come across these days, I bought enough to make about 8 more, however, it appears the balls I bought are coming up short, and so I'm having to use more balls per poncho, so this is number 1, and now it looks like I can only make 2 more.

Longer version of the black swing

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54695203/black-chelsea-jacket

I've been working on a longer version of the original black swing cardi, this one is now more like the chelsea jacket, http://www.etsy.com/listing/48441270/the-chelsea-jacket-in-grey but finally with arms, it swings a little better than the original chelsea jacket, due to the yarn that I've used ie: a looser stitching, and different stitch. This jacket was a custom order, despite it looking like a fairly simply swing jacket it's quite time consuming to finish, as the yarn is a bugger to stitch together, and I already have a lot of garments that take up a lot of time, pretty soon, I'm gonna end up running clear out of time. ;-)