Archie The Wonder Dog

Furtle (v): to have a rummage or delve into the contents of something This month, I’ve sewn up the Luna Lapin jumpers knitted eleven dishcloths and knitted a pair of socks Yarn is ‘Rimjhim’ by Dusty Dimples The yarn has lovely speckles of colours, it really is beautiful. Needless to say, Mini Archie is still a bit miffed that the dishcloths aren’t blankets for him and his chums and, well… These is ours, I is merely reclaiming them *firm yet dignified face* Linking up to the October Furtle  If you're linking up, please add a link (one per person, please) to your blog post, which could contain: a mosaic of all you've made in the month, something you've made/started/worked on, a goal which you'd like to achieve in the next month (and then in next month's post you can reflect on that goal and set yourself another one - I find this particularly handy if I'm in the midst of a big project and finding the making of hundreds of blocks to be interminable), anything crafty...

I’ve got another tick on my Fettling List to report which has increased my Fettling Points total quite nicely. Last week, I’d made two from each ball of cotton and now I’ve made three more using the leftovers: The bottom two are made from alternating two yarns, the top is broad stripes of each one: I love the way the bottom two look like they’re knitted from whole balls rather than striped leftovers.  Here they are laid out with the non-scrappy cloths on either side of them so you can see the difference between the scrappy and the non scrappy: And here’s them all in a nice neat pile, eleven* Fettling Points all stacked together and looking, if I may say, lovely: Sheila  said that each cloth deserved its own point and I agree, so a point a cloth it is. From this to this, with over 50,000 stitches in between: Dishcloths from dk cotton: Cast on 60sts on 3mm needles, knit 80 rows, cast off.  For I, yes? I and mine chums is in need of new blankets for winter…

 Having added dishcloths to my Fettling List after receiving some gorgeous hand-dyed cotton, I decided that they would be my reward for finishing the tiny jumpers and I set to the moment the jumpers were finished (I’m really not kidding!). This is how they looked in the skein: Yarn is from  Made By Penguins This is how they looked wound: And this is how they look knitted into dishcloths: Each dishcloth weighs about 38g and I have about 31g left of each so I’m going to combine them to make scrappy dishcloths; I’m hoping for another three. I’ve started by combining the two yarns on the right in the ‘wound’ photo (bottom two in the photo above) in simple stripes, two rows of each, and it’s going well: I’ll hopefully be back with more dishcloths (and no yarn left) quite soon and then I’ll have to make up my mind how many Fettling Points I award myself: one for each dishcloth or one between them *dithers* or an option I haven’t yet thought of.   Are you making good progress ...

Earlier this year, several felty chums of Mini Archie were worried about how they would keep warm this winter and I was tasked with providing jumpers to keep them toasty. Firstly, to check the fit,  I made a test jumper which fitted all of them well , they placed their order, it was added to the Fettling List  and Mini Archie put it to the top of my order of works list.  I started them last month and by the time it came to furtle for September’s progress , I had three jumpers in pieces which had been soaked and blocked, ready for sewing up.  Penny had already bought some gorgeous metal buttons from Cool Crafting  (as used in the jumper on the pattern ) and had them sent here so there was nothing stopping me from making a start with the sewing up.  Well, nothing bar my dislike of sewing up knitting, that is. However, Mini Archie gave me a stern talking to and then pulled on my heartstrings with tales of nithered chums. Naturally, I set to.  At first, ...