Thanks for all of the good wishes, I am feeling a little better now although still have to shake this throat thing fully. Still, lolling about last week meant I had more time for browsing blogs and flicking through flickr. There are some wonderfully creative people out there doing all kinds of gorgeous things with fabric and yarn. Although there are plenty of fabric softies that I fall in love with, yarn is my first love so I suppose that's why I'm drawn to knitted and crocheted softies. I have a particular penchant for the work of Wholelottalisa who makes the most lovely fluffy creatures which I think are beautifully shaped and quite special.
Until seeing her toys it had never occurred to me that you could mix two strands of different yarn and create a new and wonderful hybrid.
So, when I saw this baby mohair boucle I knew I just had to make it mine, all mine and give her technique a go by marrying it up with a lone ball from my stash. It's horribly fiddly stuff to knit with but I'll let you know how I get on later in the week!
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Footnote:
I'm going to start answering questions at the bottom of each post - I'm woefully behind with emails and hopefully this will help!
A couple of people asked about the knitted heart in the last post. It's going to be a jumper for a big toy and the pattern for the heart lace panel came from an old Rowan book - Kim's White Book, published in 1989 (one of Kim Hargreaves first pattern books).
I suppose it's out of print now but I had a search on ravelry and you can find a very similar lace heart pattern here for free.
