Walsall Wonderland

I love both of these crafts equally, for different reasons, but when I have to choose between them, as I now have to do because I’ve only got so much to spend on crafting but I’ve got three projects I really want to do, I find myself very torn.

Okay so I’ve got two projects in mind, one sewing, one knitting, so I’m going to outline the pros and cons for both. First up, knitting.

With knitting up the Silvanus bag I get to use my lovely new needles, but I’m working on the Victorian Neckwarmer on those anyway, so I don’t know how long it would be until I could start. If I got the yarn for my Circular Shrug, I would have a nice little shrug to wear, but I would be sacrificing the chance to work on my new needles after the Victorian Neckwarmer, and the chance to sew. So I think that shrug is completely off the agenda until I’ve got a nice amount of some great chunky yarn. Silvanus will take a long, long time for me to complete, and I won’t be able to get the cape finished, or the project it is related to if I do it.

If I go the option of sewing up the cape, I’m getting something I’ve envisioned for a long time done, but I’m sacrificing the chance to work with those new needles with the Silvanus pattern. However I do have stuff I can go onto working on those needles, with what’s in my stash, and then I’ll have a couple of cute little completed projects, the cape and the neckwarmer. The cape is also tied into a project for a website, and if I don’t get it done, I can’t finish the project, and that bothers me.

Looking at my little list there, it’s clear that I most want to get the cape made up, and then the next lot of crafting money can go to knitting supplies!

Alright then, now for a knitting pattern. Susan B. Anderson has created some of the cutest toys imaginable. Here today is her newest pattern, Rabbit, and also I’m linking an older one that is a personal favourite, Elephante, the cutest little elephant pattern I’ve seen.