Finished Something Today!

I am quite proud of this! I decided to make a handbag this week - as I am off work using up some spare annual leave and needed something to occupy me.

I started this yesterday and finished it today - I think that it looks quite funky! Plus my other handbag got a bit ruined last week when I was caught out in the rain - so I was in need of one.

Look I even lined it and everything - and put a sneaky pocket on the inside!

OK - so its not knitting - but it was definitely a project!

My WIPs (work in progress)

I currently have more WIPs than this - but these are the ones that came easily to hand when I was taking the photos!

OK so this is my most recent wip - and is probably one of the more challenging things that I have decided to make! I need a bolero jacket to go with a posh dress that I will be wearing to a wedding (or two!) this year. I decided it would be fun to try and make one, but I have got quite a fixed picture in my mind of what I want it to look like, and I can't find any patterns. I have decided I am going to experiment and see what I come up with! This is the wool I am using and the beginnings of a 'tester' square for me to work out how many stitches i will need.


The next thing that I have been working on is another handbag - a stripey hobo style crocheted one, which I originally took the pattern from 'Simply Knitting' magazine. I kept wondering if I had made it too big, restarted it twice, and haven't touched it since - its a shame really as I got quite far with it!
I started this baby blanket 6 months ago when I found out that one of our friends was pregnant, as you can see it still hasn't been finished! Oh well, I have another friend who is due later on - I guess I might be finished for that!


I plan to make it 3 squares across and 4 up, and then crochet an edge onto it to complete it when I have sewn them all together.

Last Years Creations (that were actually finished!)

So, I made this handbag last year. I crocheted the outside using a dk crochet cotton, and then I lined the bag using some fluffy material I found in the bargain basement bin at the local fabric shop. I bought the handles. Its quite a small, but I kind of like it - its alooking a little grubby now though, as its been used quite a lot.


The next thing that I made was this Christmas. We do a 'secret santa' every year at work, and this year I got the Head of Department, Mark as the person to buy a present for - we had a limit of just £3 with instruction to make it as stupid as possible! So I decided to go to a wool shop and get some cheap wool, I already had a load of black wool left over from another project (which was never finished!!). I then knocked out a hat in just over a day... and I was at work for most of that day...! I didn't use a pattern, just made it up as I went along, he seemed genuinely pleased that someone actually went to the trouble of making him something, and recently emailed some pictures round work of him wearing it on Christmas day on their traditional christmas walk! Anyway, enough chatting about it - here is a picture of him wearing it.

Welcome to my Unfinished Projects Blog!

This blog is to show you all the projects that I start - and occasionally the ones that I finish.

It is also going to be a useful resource for me to see what I was planning - and what i have got stashed away at the bottom of my great big basket full of crafty goodies that i have in the spare bedroom - just waiting to be rediscovered.

I hope you enjoy seeing what I am up to at the moment!