Who doesn't love a tea cosy?

Well this is a new one, finishing a present way before it's due to be given. My wife and I spent the past weekend back at my Mother's house in Kent, and I knew that this would be the last time we went back before her birthday. Seeing as I wanted to make sure the tea cosy that I'm planning on giving my Mother for her birthday (in March) would fit her teapot, I figured I'd best take it back with us so I could do the sewing up there. 

For the last week or so, I'd been knitting up the pieces for said tea cosy, which was a pattern I found on Ravelry. I made sure that I was at the sewing up stage before we travelled home, and while my Mother was out yesterday morning, sewed them up.

Now I just need to keep hold of the tea cosy until the middle of March, when we'll either post it home or deliver it when we next go back. 

Here's hoping she'll like it as much as I'm pleased with how it turned out!

Beginnings ...

So we're six months into a year abroad in France with my wife of seven months and I've had a lot of time to myself what with my very limited French and therefore lack of ability to find a real job here. I volunteer, but only for two hours a week so very quickly the year turned into my opportunity to focus on a variety of craft projects. 

During this time I've joined Ravelry, and have very much enjoyed charting the progress of my knitting, but have thought about all the other crafty things that I enjoy and how I'd like to be able to do something similar with those too. This is where blogging came in. I figured that might be the best way to document everything.

So, I'm midway through my very first knitted jumper (among other projects) and the weather here has been very very cold, resulting in my fingers not wanting to work - not very useful of them! This leads me to procrastinate (something I'm ever so good at doing) and figured now was as good a time as any to start this going :)

The Very Pink Jumper so far