Last year's woolly fun

Here are some examples of last year's woolly fun which involved knitting on needles which were as big as humanly possibly to knit with (quick results!) and various crochet projects. The Beret is a perrenial fave - floppy and versatile (knitted on size 0 needles - whatever that means - it's the opposite of the anorexic model size 0 anyway) I always have a few orders in the pipeline for these, although it sometimes takes me a year or so to be in the mood to knock one up (though it does only take an evening.) If fact, one of my friends has been waiting about 20 years for one - it's some sort of mental block, but luckily she takes it in good stride. I did manage to make an embroidered knitted waistcoat for her beautiful daughter as well as some turkish slippers, so that's keeping her happy in the meantime. It had better be damn special when it does come to pass. It just goes to show - you can't rush creativity, unless of course you want to - in which case it takes about 2 hours...See above for this year's woolly fun - much more streamlined on the time front. It involves shoving an old jumper in the washing machine and ruining it - much less labour intensive than creating something from a ball of wool with painstaking metholodogy.