Christmas Giveaway

In the spirit of Christmas I thought it would be a good idea to host my first ever Christmas Giveaway!

I will be giving away one of the gorgeous little Christmas heart decorations to one of my lucky twitter followers.So hop on over to my twitter page & get sharing! As soon as I reach 100 lovely followers, you will all be entered into a random draw to win one of these...

Find my twitter page here:

30 Days of Knitting...The Answers

30 Day of Knitting

Day 1:


What was your first finished project?

My first project was the Chocolate Gateau Slice!

It seemed to take forever, my knitting was still slow & there were a few dropped stitches by the end, but I made it! It now takes pride of place on my cake stand in my room.

Day 2


What is currently on your needles?

At the moment  there's a little bat on my 4mm's and a heart on my 3.25mm's... will hopefully both be finished off tomorrow! Eeeeek. I only tend to have one or two projects on my needles 

at a time, otherwise I'll never get them finished! I get very easily side-tracked!

Day 3

Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?

Well I started two hamsters, a basic one & a skeleton one... they fustraited me though, so they ended up in little zip-lock bags in my knitting basket! I only tend to take on projects that take a few days. Generally, the easier the better!

Day 4

How did you learn to knit?

I was taught to knit about 2 or  3 years ago by my great great Auntie. My Aunties are very thrifty ladies  & I loved their outlook. They keep those forgotten crafts alive!

Auntie Eddie & Auntie Dot

Auntie Eddie was a dab hand with knitting needles & Auntie Dot with sewing needles. So week upon week for about 2 months Auntie Eddie taught me to knit. She was highly amused at just how terrible I was and how long it took me to pick up, but we did it! She would pick up my dropped stitches for me and taught me the different stitches... & that's when I fell in love with knitting!

Pussywillow & Purl on Facebook...

Hello all! This week I'm shouting about my new facebook page!

Pussywillow & Purl on facebook...

It's all rather exciting... I posted my first to items for sale yesterday & will hopefully be adding more today or tomorrow!

Go check it out & give me your feedback, good or bad, it would be much appreciated & if you have your own facebook shop... send me the link :D

Happy Stitching,

Jade Sophia x

Knitted Hearts

Knitted Hearts

I found this adorable free pattern on the MochiMochiLand website (click picture for link) & had to give them a go! Still fairly new to knitting so decided to skip out the felting part. Here's my results:

Here's my first attempt... also taught myself to mattress stitch too, so the seems are lovely & neat. Seemed a little plain when I finished it though, so I added a cute heart-shaped button & some wool to hang it up with! 

After making that one, it was so quick & easy I wanted to male more. I had the idea of making them as Christmas decorations for my friends & family. I might even spray them with some festive scents!

Well it's Friday already! Where does the time go?!

I've had a rather unproductive week so far, since I'm a poorly bunny. Actually been reduced to wearing earmuffs 24hrs a day to stop my ears hurting! Stupid ears!

Anyway, enough with the grumpy stuff... I only have one FO project this week & that's my first heart. It was super easy & didn't take up too much concentration!

I will be making some Christmas themed ones over the next few days as little gifts...

Find the pattern here. It's another free pattern from the amazing MochiMochi Land.

My Lemon Drizzle Slice is also coming along nicely... just need to make it up now & decorate it! Roll on the weekend!



Check out Tami's Amis for more FO Friday projects!