The Wedding

The Wedding
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Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Day Six

Day Seven

Day Eight

Day Nine

 Day Ten

Day Eleven

Day Twelve

Day Thirteen

Day Fourteen

Day Fifteen

Day Sixteen

Day Seventeen

Day Eighteen

Day Nineteen

 Day Twenty

Day Twenty One

 Day Twenty Two

Days Twenty Three to Twenty Seven have been lost due to phone malfunction :(
Day Twenty Eight

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 Day Thirty

 Day Thirty One

 Day Thirty Two

Day Thirty Three

 Day Thirty Four

 Day Thirty Five

Day Thirty Six

Finished in it's frame

Hats all done

I have been busy knitting away this week making the matching hats to the girls scarfs.

I will give you a quick pattern to make your own underneath

OK so you need to know how many stitches to cast on. Using 3mm needles. You need to measure around the head in cm. You then multiply that number by 2.3. you then round to the nearest number. For example Kerry's head is 55cm.

So I multiply that by 2.3 to get 126.5 I will round that up to 127 and cast on that many.

First row knit to end

Second row purl to end

repeat these two rows a further 4 times. This causes the bottom to curl up (which is what you want)

Switch to 3.75mm needles and knit each row until the work is 14cm long.

Then on a RS (you are looking at the side of the work that goes on the outside) knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end

next row knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end

knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end

knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end

knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end

knit 1, knit 2 together. repeat this for the whole row ending on a knit 1.

next row knit to end.

From this point you knit 1 knit 2 together on all rows until you have no stitches left.

Leave a long piece of yarn to stitch up your  work.

This is the pattern for both Kerry and Jessica's hat.

Emily's hat is a little different, but only in that the first 8 rows rather than knitting the whole row then purling a whole row I knit 3 purl 3 on all 8 rows making sure that I kept the pattern right so it would stretch correctly.

Here is how to make the pompoms on the top.

1. Wrap yarn around your hand several times.

2. The more times you wrap the bigger your pompom will be.

3. Remove your hand and pinch the yarn around the middle.

4. Tie another piece of yarn around the middle and pull it tight knot until secure.

5. cut all the loops of yarn all the way around.

6. You should end up with something like this.

7. Trim the ends to make it a uniform ball.

8. Using the ends of the yarn you tied around you could either trim them  to form part of the pompom or like I am use them to attach to the top of the hat.

9. Pull both ends through the top of your hat  and tie a couple of knots 

10. trim off excess yarn

11. This is how it looks.

I have also gotten 'The Wedding' back from the framers. It looks great if I do say so myself. Here, have a look.

Hehehe it's still in the wrapping. I can not wait until she sees it. I hope she loves it as much as I do.

Oh yes I also baked some muffins today they were delish. Here's the recipe

250g self raising flour

140g caster sugar

100g dessicated coconut

150ml millk

120ml vegetable oil

1 large egg

mix all ingredients together in a bowl split between 12 muffin cups and bake on 180 for 20 mins. how easy is that?

I was going to take a photo of them but they were all eaten before I could.

Ok all of to work out how to knit some mittens now. Speak soon x

Finally...The Wedding is Complete.

Well, as the title says it is done, finished, complete. Over a month of work, a few hiccups, running out of thread etc. But now it is done and ready to be sent off to the framers. He will be collecting it in a day or so and so I can move on now to other things.

What??? You want to see it?? Really?? 

OK here is the finished stitch

I don't think you can really judge the size of this properly so here I am holding it.

As you can see it covers me from neck to bum lol. Told you it was a big piece.

It would have to be to cover my bum lol.

So now what to do?? hmmm oh yeah, back to the Christmas stitches

I made a start on a new one here

But I made a mistake and had to do some frogging, here it is after the frogging

Gutted is not the word a good couple hours work down the pan.

I then started stitching again and got this far

Another night and this will be done. Fingers crossed.

Tomorrow is my 8th wedding anniversary, and so the hubby and I will be chilling out watching one of our fave programmes on DVD, kids in bed early we may even be able to watch 4 episodes. It''s a sad life isn't it lol.

We will go out to celebrate at the weekend no doubt too. I'm not that hard done to lol.

Anyway off to bed for me apparently I will be woken up early so I can have breakfast in bed. 

Speak soon xx