Webbcrafts

My first Christmas present (for this year)

Christmas present time

I’ve started to sort out my Christmas presents, and no, it isn’t too early. How many times have you said to yourself, “I would love to knit that cardigan for Christmas, but I haven’t time now that it’s November.”

Start Now

Use magazines for inspiration, make a list and sort out what materials that you can use from your stash, and what you need to buy. In this way you won’t buy too much.

Look for offers

I saw a great offer in a knitting magazine. Free pattern and yarn to complete the project. I duly purchased the magazine and set about making a pretty striped beret. With just a few rows to go the yarn ran out. I undid what was looking like a very nice project, re-wound the yarn and weighed it. Instead of the two 30gm balls promised, one weighed 27gms and the other 29gms. I was very disappointed.

Free paterrn with free yarn

The moral of the story

Don’t assume that the yarn supplied will actually complete the project, weigh it first.

No need to waste anything

The hat was completed very successfully from stash yarn, and so it was a good free pattern. But what to do with the free yarn?

Rattigan the aristocratic cat

I made a composite toy cat…we called him Rattigan, although pink, we are sure that he’s male and very aristocratic.

Rattigan

I used the free yarn for head and body using a single crochet stitch, a scrap of tapestry yarn for his nose, two tiny buttons for his eyes and some French knitting that my 4yr old granddaughter had helped me with, and was patiently waiting for a project to come along, as arms and legs. His whiskers were a tiny amount of homespun…nothing wasted.