Snood Update

It's official - snood frenzy has now infiltrated the teaching profession....

When I first sported my snood in public, it was immediately commented on by Linda, one of my son's teaching assistants.  Linda is a wonderful woman, not only does she do an amazing job teaching my son, but she happens to be pretty nifty with the knitting needles too.  Very impressively, she identified the wool (sorry, yarn) my snood was made from, just by looking at it!  I passed on the free pattern for her to try, and the rest as they say, is history.  Look at the result, doesn't she look gorgeous?

Snood accessorised with a brooch - now there's a good idea...

Inspired by the free snood pattern, she even made up her own-design snood in her knitting class: a knitted rectangle that fastens with a button.  Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective.

So that's one more to add to the World Map of Snoods methinks.  It can only be a matter of time before knitting a snood becomes part of the National Curriculum. x

Snood winner...!!!

And the winner of the beautiful snood, hand knitted by my lovely mum's fair hands is..... Stitch and Witter!

Hooray, hooray, Stitch and Witter has a fab blog: she makes some gorgeous clothes and, like me, is a bit obsessed by polka dots, hooray again!  E-mail me your address Joanne and I'll get it in the post to you.

Thank you so much to everybody who entered the giveaway and for the very kind comments about my mum - I've passed them on and she's brimming with pride! Right, off to try and get some shots of my new Ginger skirt whilst there's a tiny bit of light.  x

Snood giveaway

If you read my earlier snood post, you'll know that I cunningly got my mitts on one by roping my mum in to help (well, knit the whole thing actually).  But, as other snood makers have noticed, the finished snood only requires about half the amount of wool specified in the pattern, so there was 100g of very nice wool left with my mum.  As her hopeless, non-knitting daughter had no further need of it, my lovely mum Lily quickly whipped up another one and sent it to me "in case one of your friends would like it".  Isn't she just the best?

I'm aware that half the sewing/knitting population now has a snood, thanks to Karen, but if you don't yet have one, read on.  I'm doing just as my mum suggested and offering a beautiful teal coloured, hand knitted snood to one of my readers. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post.  The giveaway is open worldwide until midnight GMT on Friday 18th November.  The winner will be chosen at random after this date and notified by e-mail.

Happy Monday everybody. x

How to get yourself a snood if you can't knit....

When I first saw Did You Make That's gorgeous hand knitted chunky wool snood, I knew it was the missing link in my autumnal neck gear.  Taking only an evening or two to whip up, it seemed like the perfect project for a knitter to get their teeth into.  Only one problem - I can't knit.

I've tried and failed at knitting (well, once, about 30 years ago), so what methods could I use to get my hands on one?  Firstly, I entered Karen's giveaway to win an identical one, but the lucky winner that time was Scruffy Badger, and very gorgeous she looks in hers too.  Then I watched the screen, open-mouthed, whilst reading this post from Pincushion Treats.  Very, very admirably, Melizza taught herself to knit and made herself a gorgeous pink version as her first knitting project. Feeling suitably humbled, I took the only option now left.  I phoned my mum and asked her to knit me one....

I used the same wool Karen recommended.  Sorry, that should read, my lovely mum, Lily, used the same wool Karen recommended - Sirdar Big Softie in Boho.  A day later, this arrived through the post:

It was perfect!  I've never worn a snood before but I'm now a convert.  It's so cosy and elegant and I love the chunky look of the stitches.

Looking slightly deranged, wearing a snood and short sleeves but I don't care

You're never too old to have something hand knitted for you by your mum. Thanks mum!  And thanks Karen for the original inspiration, I think you may have started a snood frenzy. x