Little Cotton Rabbits

growth

Many, many thanks to everyone who has popped over to etsy and bought a copy of my cosy pattern. It's been lovely to see some finished ones already appearing on ravelry and a nice thought that lots of them will be hopping onto breakfast tables around the world on Easter morning!

This week has been a busy one so far. I've been giving the beds a last digging over and preparing for our little veg garden this year. With the sun and warmth over the last week the first of my seeds have sprouted

my potatoes are chitting nicely

and my onion sets are ready to go in

The plum tree is in full blossom and all feels positive and full of promise for the summer ahead!

Further update on cosy pattern...

Sorry to chop and change but there have been a few problems over on Lulu and now that the rush has died down a bit I've decided to withdraw the patterns from there and concentrate on etsy. The patterns are available on etsy now and I'll keep them in stock. I'm checking emails regularly so the patterns are being sent by email within a few hours (apart from during the night).

Thanks so much to everyone who has bought a copy - I wish you happy knitting and a lovely weekend to all.

Update on cosy pattern

Thanks so much to all of you who have popped over to my etsy pattern shop. My little fingers are struggling to keep up and since my tummy is rumbling and complaining I've not yet had lunch I've decided to also upload the pattern to my lulu store. You can download it directly from there without having to wait for me to email you the file. Just follow the instructions on screen and remember to SAVE the file when you have it on your screen.

I'll do my best to keep up with the etsy shop orders but must go and grab a quick sandwich!

Thanks

J x

Draw winners

Thanks so much to everyone for all of the very kind comments about the pattern. I've used the old random number generator thingy again and it has pulled 20 numbers out of the ether:

Which translates to:

Donna Ferrara, Tracy (She's the sweetest...), Edel, Emma (I'd love to win...), Svenja, Jess (Adorable...), Mila Tamaoka, Nina Chester, Helen (Pick me..), Tatyana, Kelly (I'm crazy...), Nancy (You're such a talent...), Nicole (Adorable...), Margaret Lifgren, Allison (Makes me smile...), Gillian (Very Easteric...), Janet (How lovely...), Karen Stevens, Marie (I'm so happy) & Robyn (I'd love a chance...).

Copies of the pattern will be emailed to each of the winners shortly and then I'll pop the pattern into my Etsy pattern shop.

I've decided to run 2 etsy shops from now on - the one above will list patterns for sale and I hope to add more soon. The second one LCRknitted will just list finished knitted items. I have several egg cosies to list over the next week and am finishing off some animals and cakes to add soon too.

Now I'm off to have a cuppa and rest my eyes after all of that counting comments! Many thanks again for all of your interest and support.

a little giveaway to celebrate spring

I know that I always bang on about blossom at this time of year but plum blossom is the first indication that spring has arrived again in our little garden and that makes me very happy. Toby is an outdoorsy kind of boy and life in the warmer weather is more relaxed and fun for him, so I'm cheered by the lovely thought of all of those warm and sunny days to come with paddling pool splashing, bubble chasing, tea in the garden and a bit of knitting in the sun for me of course!

Anyway, with spring and Easter in mind I've finished off the egg cosy pattern.

It will be available in my etsy pattern shop before the end of the week but if you'd like to win a free copy of this pattern in advance then please leave a comment below and I'll draw 20 winners first thing on Thursday morning.

Sorry but comments are now closed, 9.25am,Thursday March 19th

Comic relief

Red Nose Day 2009

Amy is doing something funny for money!

Anything funny happening with you?

We have a winner

How beautiful!
Posted by: Dawn | March 06, 2009 at 12:06 AM

Congratulations Dawn - I hope you enjoy them.

Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to comment on Kerry's gorgeous needles. I think a few of us might have succumbed to what Ali called 'the wanties' and got ourselves some anyway!

I've been out in the garden a lot over the last couple of weeks so there's been more digging than knitting going on here but I do hope to have something knitted to show next week. For now I'll leave you with a picture from the nearly finished egg cosy pattern - more details to follow shortly.

Enjoy the rest of your week, Jx

A giveaway

Today I'm very pleased to be hosting a giveaway on behalf of Kerry at Pennydog. She creates beautiful and unique resin jewellery and has recently started making gorgeous handcrafted knitting needles with delicious names like Strawberry Jam, Contrary Mary and Shooting Star (see below).

All are UK size 3 (6.5mm / US 10.5) and are just over 7 inches long - perfect for knitting up a scarf and are created from translucent resin mixed with iridescent style glitter with buttons added on to prevent your knitting from slipping off. They come gift boxed so would make a lovely gift if you could bear to part with them!

The lucky winner will receive a bespoke pair made especially to their colour preference. To be in with a chance please just leave a comment on this post and we will randomly draw one winner next Wednesday.

Comments are now closed thanks, a winner will be announced shortly.