Mia

Mia and summers end –maybe not if you knit this hat! –just love the fabulous job that the team at http://www.knitonthenet.com have done with my design –go have a look at all the other fabulous knits over there.Well back from France and the design book is full now for next falls designs so heres to all the swatching I need to do,will miss the sun and the lovely people I met.Seeing my sister for a few days without being ic of little folk was great and nice to reconnect  

Mia

after all the childrearing years.Our husbands had a good time with their own brand of humour –not lost on us really. We ate some lovely food and drank some very good wines, La Caminade http://www.lacaminade.com where I stayed was just perfect and Joelle and Christian both perfect hosts .

Mia— summer days at la Caminade

Summers end –or maybe not

Mia

new slipper kits

Now to the men in your life Ladies! enough attention has been paid to womens slippers/pumps and not enough to the men .This time let us head just for the knitted versions but with an extra twist of  having a leather sole now these have been a long time in the design process and getting the copyright etc —–after the felted slipper saga all my work goes through copyright before being released and I recomend it to all knitters ,copying is rife especially now with the world getting small erand smaller and as a copier will even copy your way of pattern writing you are on a hiding to nothing trying to prove they have copied you–so be prepared.I have yet  to decide whether these are going out as kits or as patterns –watch this space

thank you

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Babytalk poster

Babytalk Poster

our new Babytalk poster advert.

Some British Weather

So I needed a break, a short holiday–so where better than my chapel in the hills.It rained on day 1 and day2 day 3 and 4 were the same and now on day 6 it is horrendous horizontal rain and meanwhile I hear on the radio how London basks in temperatures of 30 degrees—what acrazy country we live in .Hay summer and here is so beautiful views from my windows and the reason I am here.

view from my window

the first thing I saw this morning from my bed.Then whilst having breakfast and looking up the valley

the view as I had breakfast.

Then looking towards the start of my garden here and the lovely Rowan trees which are very full of berries

My Rowan Trees

And then  a nice picture of the grasses blowing in the wind if onky we had the sun as well oh well !!!!! dream on  

Grasses blow in the wind

Twilley’GORGEOUS’

Been using some differing yarns just recently and I have to say the Twilley Gorgeous is a great yarn with a lovely drape but holds your stitch pattern firm and the colours are good too–well done Twilley ,seems an age since I designed for them the ‘knit to felt’ kits usingFreedom.More colours in this range would be great maybe colours like theSincere organic cotton range .

 

No cobwebs in my chapel so decided to knit one –love these colours

New shop

So excited today sees the opening of the new online shop beautiful hand sewn and knitted babywear from the hands of myself and Emma my daughter.The stock is small at the moment but watch this space for more yummy baby things to come please come and visit and spread the word to your ‘Mummy’ friends.
http://chrissiedaydesigns.mybisi.com lovingly called Babytalk.The lovely teddies in the picture are for sale as well as part of the heirloom range.

Parisienne Romance New lace shawl in UK Magazine

Parisienne Romance

Lovely to see my lace shawl in the magazine seems ages since I did this one but that is how it all goes .Nice to see I made it onto the cover as well –sure this will be available via Ravelry soon.I love using Filatura and the colour was superb.The deseign is from the Paris sketchbook and reminds me of the Eiffel Tower on a blustry May morning.

new homeware patterns available now on Ravelry

the new quillow design pattern is now uloaded and ready on Ravelry as is the bolster cushion this is great fun to knit as is Cushy cashmere knit in the beautiful Shilasdair yarn
The patterns will be on http://chrissieday.co.uk very soon but for now please visit Ravelry.Happy Knitting

New Scarf

Well finally got my new scarf pattern uploaded for sale via the web site http://www.chrissieday.co.uk and also on Ravelry on Knittingnotetime /Chrissie Day
Not long ago I saw a marvellous construction method which was Japanese inspired and the stitch I wanted to use lended itself to this construction so hence the new scarf in a nice weight wool, I have also used this stitch in a diagonal knitted silk scarf to come later.