Crafter's Corner 2019

Love that badger in bluebells Sheal....♡♡♡

 

Thank you Jenny.

 

I agree with @Jenny namaste - the badger is gorgeous! Is it a wrendale design?

 

Thank you Sian. Yes it is a Wrendale (Hannah Dale) design. It's the second one completed of a trio I'm sewing. The first one you may remember was a Highland Coo.

 

well, I knit, I knit like other folk breathe. A well channelled nervous twitch... Used to work for the Aran export industry but realised I could earn more ( for overseas work with the most needy) by designing, making smaller things and selling at street markets and craft fairs. At a loose end just now and I hate that! Oh they asked for bright baby hats for India... Will try to get the photo of the lace Christening gown offline later.... One of these is now on an antique doll in a museum...

 

I wouldn't normally put other peoples stuff on here but this is craft and garden related. My wife makes cards and other craft stuff and her latest allocation from Katy Sue was green man and green woman.

Here are her makes - will be on create and craft soon

 

covid-19 reaches all parts... Getting requests for knitted face masks, lined and with filter pockets of course... and "ear savers"; knitted straps with buttons to loop the ties round as they make ears sore after several hours. The masks become fashion items. I add cables to mine.

 

Piccies would be nice
Please,
Jenny

 

Ah I only do the knitting part; then the work goes to Canada for buttons and lining and loops etc. Leave it with me? Honoured to be asked...Blessings and thanks

 

Hoping to get these on very soon; I had just sent a parcel off to Canada when I saw this!

 

Here we are.

These are four of my knitted masks. The cables top and bottom contract the work so that the central part is fuller.

They will go off to Canada to be completed with fastenings and linings that will include a pocket for a disposable filter.

When this is over they will go to rough sleepers for winter warmth.

 

Very good @Islander77, just showed them to hubby and he asked why do you have to send them to Canada to be finished please?

 

Ah yes. My faith family is there and I work for them and they have huge orders. We work to feed and care for rough sleepers, and abandoned babies in Nepal. It is kind of centralised. And I am a knitter not a sewer; they need professionally finished as knitting by itself will not keep the virus out; has to be very finely woven material . As they are on the photo they would be useless.

 

Thank you for your reply, they look great and i understand that they need linings.

 

ALso as I add cables they get the kudos of being hand knitted in Ireland! I traded at street markets and craft fairs for many years here and the tourists loved anything with cables.