Woolly Garlands for Cupoftea's beautiful girls. Knitters and crocheters needed.

[KnottyLocks]

You may have been following the progress of Cupoftea?s beautiful daughter, Beatrice Primrose.
This project is to make garlands for Cupoftea?s daughters, to include the flowers in all their names and other lovely things. We would appreciate your help.

The idea is to make some garlands similar to this woolly one.

However, we would like to include the following:

Bees for Beatrice
Primroses
Violets and Daisies for Beatrice?s sisters
Flowers
Any decorative motifs
Triangular bunting that we can stitch crochet motifs onto (size to be confirmed)

If you are a knitter wanting to make bunting, garter stitch is preferable as it will lie flatter.

Unlike the blanket projects, these woolly things can be made from any wool.

I will post more details including sizes and links to patterns shortly.

Please sign up if you?d like to contribute.

Yes it is. If you look closely there is a dragon in my name :)

I have 3 bunts, one bee, 4 primroses and a large smiley sun. And the freebie ball of yellow wool.

I can carry on crocheting this evening if you let me know what you'd like more of and post first thing, first class, tomorrow.

Soupy, any flowers would be good. Or pretty hangy things

It was the dragon that gave me the clue! Sharp, me

The flowers are a piece of cake, taking 15 mins max (including pesky ends).

the sun is almost bunt sized and stuffed. It was labelled a Little Ray of
Sunshine an the same blog as the primroses and it seemed appropriate. I think I need to adjust his smile though as I'm not sure it looks right.

Oh that's lovely, Soupy. A little ray of sunshine There's nothing wrong with his smile.

LOL.
I unpicked his smile and gouged out his eyes (well it is nearly Halloween) and redid the smile and replaced the eyes with safety eyes.

I have sewn in all but one Pesky End which I left because it was exceptionally long and thus probably good for attaching that particular flower.

Nell they are less tricksy then I thought they would be...the biggest issue is working out the pattern from scratch, as I didn't like the look of any of the freebie ones online.

I've done Prof.Inkling and Dr Shellington (both 2.5 inches tall). Peso Penguin is next. Now I've worked out the basic body shape it's just a matter of altering colour/tails/ears to suit.

Knotty I will post stuff on Tuesday as I am malingering under the duvet with the baby today (we are both recovering from Bronchitis)...hope that's not too late.

Very, Tuesday is fine, Wednesday is also fine if you're not well enough. Sorry you're feeling rough: bronchitis is nasty.

I won't get near the garland stuff until the end of the week anyhow as I'm trying to finish off the blanket for Whatevertheweather before half-term and the chaos that brings.

Soupy, that all sounds fantabulous. Apart from the gouging

Much woolly loveliness has just arrived from:

Piste - I've muched the chocolate already

JulesJules - it's great, stop your worrying

LadyWellian - it really does look more like a flower than a fried egg, or a merkin, honest

Nell - you are right, it's an explosion of colour. Wonderful. As is the choc.

Oh good

Thanks for your note, it made me chuckle

[snort] @ Merkin

@ merkin

It's not too late for me to crochet a merkin and pop it in the package... Just say the word, I have some brown wool.

Knotty - I included the Spooks Bunt, which is the cream one that has a very frilly edge cos I kept losing my concentration

I lose my concentration all the....

The 'merkin' made DH chuckle too. Perhaps I should have held it up higher?

I've got some of this wool somewhere, which would knit into a super merkin.

A foxy merkin?

a very 1970s full on merkin :o

Bunts and stuff duly posted by SmallDragon1, chocolate he bought at the same time duly scoffed

On to the blanket squares now.

Glad my bnunt arrived and isn't too terrible.

Should have done a merkin

Maybe we should have a merkin project, just for fun. It would be quite nice to have a frivolous thing.

Prize for the best one.

They'd go lovely with the knitted boobs.

Ravelry doesn't have any merkin patterns.

Allegedly.

If Knotty makes my knitted boobs in time, I'm going to wear them to the MN Christmas do

I will look lovely...
Of
That
There
Is
No
Doubt

Possibly not the merkin though.

had to Google what a merkin was.

Oma, no shame there. I bet you wish you hadn't now