Knitting of course!

Work is underway for Blythecon UK! I'm attempting to devise some patterns for the workshop handout before I get on with doing the instruction printout.
My Mum is sat on a beach somewhere in the south of England knitting some hoodies ready for the stand (she's been texting me pictures of her sunday best Annalise sat on the beach in knitwear - the woman is obsessed!)
Here's a pic of one of the scarfs as modelled by my HW Lucky.
I'm working on a simple hat design next but as it is now the school holidays I have less knitting time, I have also become obsessed with Lego Harry Potter on the Wii.
I'll be popping some tutorials and patterns on here as soon as they're done!

Update!

There will be a sale in the shop very shortly to clear out the old stock and I will be adding the new stock tonight!
Sorry for the lack of updates, I am snowed under at the moment trying to catch up. I can also reveal the exciting news that we will have a stall at blythecon uk if you're visiting. There will be hoodies, cardigans and mushroom hats!

Goodness me! I have hardly done any updating lately! There are new things to go in the shop but things keep cropping up. I have been ill again, the computer has been ill and my internet is struggling to upload pics which doesn't help.
Before uploading the new shop stuff I will be doing a sale on all the old stock so keep an eye out!

Another friday update, this time with more pictures hopefully!
My knitting mission is finally underway - I am determined to knit something for each of my girls, improving my existing skills and perhaps learning some new ones. I want to start making hoodies properly (with button holes!) and I really need to polish up my finishing skills.
My first blythe mission item is a blue dress for my HW Lucky. I'm using an old pattern that I bought on ebay and I'm adapting it for blythe as there are very patterns that fit her small body. So far, with my Mum's mathematical help, I've reduced down the recommended 44st cast on to make a frill on the bottom of the dress. I'm working on the skirt & trying to figure out what length it needs to be. If all goes to plan I'll have it finished by monday. Discovering podcasts has made my knitting time so much more enjoyable!
My Mum has been working on some requests and a few new things for the shop. If you've popped by my flickr account you'll probably have spotted them by now.
Here's a quick peek of what to look out for in the next few weeks

I'll let you know when more things are being listed anyways!

That took a while!

I finally finished sorting out the shipping stuff over on etsy this morning. To be honest we haven't sold anything in ages as we haven't updated much over the last few months and as a result the shipping rates were way off! Now, thanks to my handy shipping rates leaflet, they are all corrected. After an hour fighting with paypal I even managed to issue refunds on the overpayments.

My mum is visiting today with knitted goodies, we're going to play dollies and I'll have a good chat about all the shop stuff (custom orders, new hoodie design!!!)
The sun is shining so I may even get some nice pictures of her doll, she always brings one over and it's always a nice suprise. I do want to steal her Groovy Groove though.

On my knitting front I am ploughing on with a bright pink cardigan for my smallest daughter Dizzy. I will get back into blythe knitting soon, it's just so much simpler to knit the cardigan as it is simple garter stitch & I can leave it in the midst without losing my place.

At last! An update!

I finally updated rosesblytheknits after promising to for ages. What can I say, life with 2 small children is rather time consuming!
I'm waiting to hear back from my Mum about a custom order and a new hoodie pattern which I fancy trying when I get time. At the moment I keep buying yarn that just gets stuffed into my huge yarn bag. I must be crazy buying more, somebody stop me!

Feeling a bit better today and even contemplating carrying on with my complicated blythe top! I will probably be listing the new cardigans today or tomorrow so keep an eye out for them!
My mum has designed a new hoodie and hopefully we'll be selling that design too. She's away on holiday at the moment so I can't get any pics for now. I may even be going on holiday next month to Mull but it is still in the planning stages. Imagine the pictures I could take in a place like that.

Delay in updating

Well we got moved and as predicted it took slightly longer to get back online than it was supposed to. I've been flat out busy and then as soon as I get any spare time I fall ill.
I won't be listing any new stuff until the girls and I are feeling a bit better.
My knitting has also suffered from the move. Before I moved I had loads of ideas & was getting on with a few projects. Now I'm so tired that I'm just working away at Dizzy's garter stitch cardigan. Probably for the best or she won't even fit in it by the time I finish it!

Moving and then..update!

I'm moving this weekend, wish me luck! And as soon as I'm back I will be updating the shop with all the cute cardies! Hurray!

My knitting bag is still overflowing with wool and I've hardly even knit anything! My current project is to finish knitting a woollyrockers jumper for my sister's DaBi Yumi, it is taking me a while I must say. The knitting is ok, I just seem to get distracted. My head is usually full of ideas which I am too slow to knit. Nevermind! it is nice to look at all the pretty knitwear for inspiration.

My Mum has lent me some of her knitting patterns and some of them are hilarious! I had to post some over on Flickr as they were too good not to share.
There shall be new knits going in the shop next week once my Mum gets them finished and I shall model them on my new Guava when she arrives. Yes, I'm in a colourful dolly mood at the moment. Sadly I am also in the 'got to move house in 2 weeks' mood so no time for knitting! Of course that hasn't stopped me buying wool despite the wool bag overflowing. Oops.
And MSR left hong Kong yesterday - I am very excited! Now i just need to sell my FrFr and my husband can forgive me!

Open!

At last, I've restocked the shop after months of waiting! The link is in the sidebar!
Two hoodies didn't make it in as one is going to be in a goodie bag and one got marked on a photoshoot (that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!)
I may get my own hoodie finished at some point, finding time to knit is proving difficult at the moment as I got the new pokemon game AND I'm supposed to be packing up the house. Meh!

The bumblebee dress and other things

I finally finished this (knitting, not finishing) today and I am quite pleased with how it turned out. I really think I need to try something new though so I've printed out some patterns today, we'll see how it goes. So here ya go!

The shop stuff

I currently have new stock for etsy lurking around my house. It has been here for weeks waiting to make it on to etsy and yet I haven't bothered, mostly because the local telephone exchange makes photo uploading about as quick as dial up. No joke, it took me about a month to catch up on my 365 pics just because of this.
So here, take a goosey gander and let me know what you think!

I'm actually knitting at the moment in a desperate bid to stop myself spending money on the girls as we're saving up for new house stuff (all very boring and angsty)
Predictably there are too many things that I want for my girls.
Such as new hats tonite over here http://www.etsy.com/shop/stormyfresh1970 at bambina carabina. My Goose would look awesomesauce in one of those.
And I want some custom tee's from http://www.etsy.com/shop/ababietoy with the phrases 'BL's have more fun', 'wibbly wobbley timey wimey' and 'also, I can kill you with my brain'.
My new headbands arrived from cupcakecozy so I should be content but is anyone ever content with what they've got? The Blythes always need more!

Well, here I am!

So here is my new blog, hopefully it will be very much doll and knitting related!